Might.. just might be moving to New York.....

[Fodster]

Mrs has been offered a job in NYC, currently both very happy in Sydney, Australia but she wants a change.....

...never been.... recommendations????

[PorkChopSandwiches]

It's crowded, expensive and smells like piss in Manhattan. But if you are making a shit ton of money it's the place to be.

[RBP]

:lol: That's quite the endorsement.

I love Manhattan. Don't have much experience in the other boroughs. But yes, Porky's right, expensive as fuck, but a lot of money to be made there.

[deebakes]

and people everywhere :puke:

[Loser]

Goodbye life, hello communist state. ;)

[Fodster]

Thanks for the positive comments :)

We are thinking it would just be for a couple of years. Whats a good wage over there?

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Thanks for the positive comments :)

We are thinking it would just be for a couple of years. Whats a good wage over there?

If you live anywhere in Manhattan or the trendier places in like Brooklyn, you would need at least $100K/year and even that would probably be stretching it, as has already been said, NYC is one of the most expensive cities in the United States to live in. Now, if you can live in the suburbs and commute by subway or other public transit, then it wouldn't be nearly as bad.

[Pony]

I'd definitely agree that 100k/year would be considered the lower end of middle class in NYC. In the city is very expensive, you can get much cheaper out in the suburbs but the commute in and out of the city is notoriously time consuming. So either you spend hours getting to and from work every day or you spend lots of money to live in the city.

It would definitely be a huge adjustment living there with so many other people. Personally I like my space too much and don't think I could do it.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

New York City metro population in 2014 according to Google was 20.1 million people

[Pony]

:shock:

[Goofy]

Start spreadin' the news....... i'm leavin' today...... i want to be a part of it, New York, New York!

[Pony]

In my county (including Cleveland and all the suburbs we are at 1.26 million.

"According to the 2010 Census, the five-county Cleveland-Elyria Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) consists of Cuyahoga County, Geauga County, Lake County, Lorain County, and Medina County, and has a population of 2,077,240.[1] Greater Cleveland is the 29th most populous metropolitan area in the United States and largest metro entirely in Ohio."

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Denver metro population (estimated) for 2015 is 2.951 million people....and there are way too many people here. I couldn't imagine living in a place like NYC

[Goofy]

Perth is a city in central Scotland, located on the banks of the River Tay. It is the administrative centre of Perth and Kinross council area and the historic county of Perthshire. According to the preliminary 2011 census results Perth, including its immediate suburbs, has a population of 50,000.

:lol:

[PorkChopSandwiches]

If you live anywhere in Manhattan or the trendier places in like Brooklyn, you would need at least $100K/year and even that would probably be stretching it, as has already been said, NYC is one of the most expensive cities in the United States to live in. Now, if you can live in the suburbs and commute by subway or other public transit, then it wouldn't be nearly as bad.

No way, they would need to be making 100,000 each and even then it would be tough. I recommend looking at some rents in the area where you think you may end up. A lot of people end up living in NJ and commuting into Manhattan just so you can have a bit of space and more affordable housing

[PorkChopSandwiches]

If you live anywhere in Manhattan or the trendier places in like Brooklyn, you would need at least $100K/year and even that would probably be stretching it, as has already been said, NYC is one of the most expensive cities in the United States to live in. Now, if you can live in the suburbs and commute by subway or other public transit, then it wouldn't be nearly as bad.

No way, they would need to be making 100,000 each and even then it would be tough. I recommend looking at some rents in the area where you think you may end up. A lot of people end up living in NJ and commuting into Manhattan just so you can have a bit of space and more affordable housing

[Teh One Who Knocks]

No way, they would need to be making 100,000 each and even then it would be tough. I recommend looking at some rents in the area where you think you may end up. A lot of people end up living in NJ and commuting into Manhattan just so you can have a bit of space and more affordable housing

You could do it on $100K, you would just have to watch your money. Even in Brooklyn, which is super trendy now and 'the' place to live in the city, you can find small apartments for $1500/month or less...you won't get anything special, but it can be done.

http://www.trulia.com/for_rent/Brooklyn,NY/0-1500_price

[Muddy]

I would not want to move to New York unless I was independently wealthy.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

You could do it on $100K, you would just have to watch your money. Even in Brooklyn, which is super trendy now and 'the' place to live in the city, you can find small apartments for $1500/month or less...you won't get anything special, but it can be done.

http://www.trulia.com/for_rent/Brooklyn,NY/0-1500_price

Im assuming he wanted to be in Manhattan.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

I don't think you can live in Manhattan for less than $250K/year

[Noilly Pratt]

Friends live in New Jersey and commute to NY. But some of them are "underwater". That means their property values have sunk and they owe more than the place is worth.

So, make sure you go into this with your wits about you.

[Hal-9000]

Stay in Sydney...Australia is God's country.

New York is dirty, cold and like everyone here mentions, too expensive to live in.

[DemonGeminiX]

Well, you won't have to worry anymore about all the deadly wildlife in Australia if you do move to NYC...

I don't think you'll see anything like the Inland Taipan in NYC, although all the PC people there are pretty venomous in their own way.


The food rocks in NYC.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

The food is a highlight

[Hal-9000]

Also mugging is cool.


If they get a sense that you're new there or a tourist, them bad guys will lay a beating on yo ass nightly :lol:

[Loser]

I think there is...at most...1,200 people within 25 miles of my house. :-k

Kinda like it that way.

[Hal-9000]

I live in a city with just over a million...roads are rated to handle a population of about 400000....

our city is kind of laid out in a valley and foothills, a little like LA....but I'm telling you mang, rush hour can seem like 40 million live here at times...

We live in a house that used to be the outskirts of the southwest side of the city. Past us was one road, fields and then mountains about 45 minutes later...

Now there's entire shopping malls and subdivisions west of us. Literally a half hour of new city where there were horses and cows in fields a few years earlier.

[Hal-9000]

I've heard that a lot of NY'ers don't drive. They have cars and licenses but choose to take public transpo daily....


I'm too used to driving, not sure I could get on a subway or buses every day filled with thousands of people.

[Griffin]

Most of the population in cities like New York not only don't drive but have never been out side of the city. Everything they know is asphalt, concrete and walls.
They've never seen the country side or farms. Deserts, forests, mountains or rivers have only been seen in movies or books.

Quite sad really.

[redred]

I would miss seeing countryside views

[Hal-9000]

I've always been fortunate enough to live in an area with varying geography....prairies, forests, foothills and mountains all within less than an hour of where I'm sitting

[Teh One Who Knocks]

I've always been fortunate enough to live in an area with varying geography....prairies, forests, foothills and mountains all within less than an hour of where I'm sitting

Same here, even when I was living in Vermont which is basically all countryside, I was only about a 60 to 70 minute drive from Montreal, so the city was never terribly far away. And here in Denver, the mountains are not far away at all. In just about an hour I can be 11,000 feet in elevation.

[DemonGeminiX]

I live in an area that's surrounded by a swamp. Got two cities about an hour away from me in either direction (north and south), and a river that leads to the ocean is right around the corner. I'm about 5 or 6 hours away from the mountains.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

It's so cute when people in the south refer to their hills as mountains :giggle:

[DemonGeminiX]

:nono:

The Blue Ridge Mountains are part of the Appalachians, I'll have you know.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Right this moment I am sitting at a higher elevation than the highest point in the entire state of Georgia :hand:


Game, set, and match :dance:

[DemonGeminiX]

:hand:

The air's so thin up there in Mile High City that the lack of oxygen has sapped your brain.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

There's plenty of air here for us real mountain folk :nono:

[DemonGeminiX]

:lol:

Real mountain folk? You gonna brew yourself some shine there, mountain boy?

[Teh One Who Knocks]

:lol:

Real mountain folk? You gonna brew yourself some shine there, mountain boy?

That's what you folk do down in the hills, that's why they're called hillbillies and not mountainbillies :nono:

[Noilly Pratt]

There's plenty of air here for us real mountain folk :nono:

Yeah, you sounded like you wuz channelin' Uncle Jesse from The Dukes of Hazzard. I'm thinkin' Lance is Rocky Mountain High

[DemonGeminiX]

:-s

The Dukes of Hazzard was set here in Georgia.

[Muddy]

Yeah the Dukes are crackers, man.. Not hillbilly's.

[deebakes]

i had a dukes of hazzard bigwheel :dance:

[Fodster]

So the move is still on! Don't suppose anyone knows someone who can offer me a job.....!

[Goofy]

So the move is still on! Don't suppose anyone knows someone who can offer me a job.....!

Nope :lol:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

So the move is still on! Don't suppose anyone knows someone who can offer me a job.....!

Shouldn't you have a job BEFORE you make the decision to move? :-k

[PorkChopSandwiches]

So the move is still on! Don't suppose anyone knows someone who can offer me a job.....!

What do you do?

[redred]

i could be your pimp:-k

[Goofy]

I just saw a pic of you on the Brooklyn Bridge........ fact-finding trip or you already moved Fod?

[Hal-9000]

Don't you live in Australia?

I'll ask you the same question as I ask to immigrants who move here.....what the fck is wrong with you?

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Don't you live in Australia?

I'll ask you the same question as I ask to immigrants who move here.....what the fck is wrong with you?

Have you seen the lists of all the things in Australia that can kill you? :shock:

[Pony]

Things in New York that can kill you>Things in AUS that can kil you

[Fodster]

What do you do?

Currently GM for a Scaffolding and Height Safety company, back ground in Investogations/Fraud. :tup:


Shouldn't you have a job BEFORE you make the decision to move? :-k

The Mrs is being transferred for work so I go with her, but obviously need a job when I get there...


i could be your pimp:-k

Sounds good, to men or women? Not fussed either way yo be honest :cool:


I just saw a pic of you on the Brooklyn Bridge........ fact-finding trip or you already moved Fod?

Fact finding mate, loved it over there.


Don't you live in Australia?

I'll ask you the same question as I ask to immigrants who move here.....what the fck is wrong with you?

Yeh currently do, been here 8 years now, it would only be a temp move to NY, Australia is 'home"

[PorkChopSandwiches]

I got nothing then, but I'm sure you can find work with that background

[RBP]

Things in New York that can kill you>Things in AUS that can kil you

Starting with the pizza. :thumbsdown:

[Fodster]

I got nothing then, but I'm sure you can find work with that background

What do you have???

[redred]

Making shit rap music knowing porky :lol:


BTW was thinking male and female for the pimping 2x 8 hour shifts double our money

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Starting with the pizza. :thumbsdown:

It's so cute that people in Chicago think their pizza is so good :giggle:

[Hal-9000]

Starting with the pizza. :thumbsdown:

:lol:

I thought NY was famous for their 'slices' ?

One thing I've seen is super thin crusts, pieces with no cheese on top, scarce limited toppings and the slices flop over in half when you hold them.

not real pizza [-(

[DemonGeminiX]

NY = Italian-like pizza, though different in execution. It's the "typical" pizza. You can eat it with your hands.
Chicago = Deep dish, more like a pie with pizza fillings. You definitely need a knife and fork to eat it.

They're both good, but NY-style is better. Chicago deep dish pizza can be a royal pain in the ass to make, but when you get it right, it is pretty good. It's just not as good as NY-style.

[RBP]

They all vary a lot by shop. NY thin is doughy, hard to eat because it's falling all over like Hal said... they usually make a crisper thin here that I prefer.

[DemonGeminiX]

They all vary a lot by shop. NY thin is doughy, hard to eat because it's falling all over like Hal said... they usually make a crisper thin here that I prefer.

:lol:

Falling all over? My friend, do you not know how to fold a slice of pizza?

[RBP]

:lol:

Falling all over? My friend, do you not know how to fold a slice of pizza?
That's the point. You can't just eat it, you have to create what is basically a doughy calzone by folding it up.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

http://i.imgur.com/fbHW3Vr.jpg

World's best pizza :tup: