I work remotely and I want to live in NYC. I'm not getting any younger and I want to experience it before I'm a crusty oldfag. Of course I'm a fucking poorfag by NYC standards, so I'd be slumming it.

What would a budget of 3k living expenses look like, and which parts of the city should I be looking at? Again since I work remote, I'm a little worried about finding good roommates, as I'll be at home for most of the day. Although, transport costs should be a bit lower since I don't have to commute to and from work.

>>33252328 (OP)
You would be looking at Brooklyn I think and living quite poor there. Or staying in a micro room or slumlord home in a more major area. They're getting away with paying you that little because you don't live in NYC. When you live in NYC you need to ask a higher salary.

>>33252340
Yeah but I can't job hop for another couple years at least, and when I do I want to go west coast.

>>33252344
$36,000 a year (before taxes)?
>Wants to work this job for three years
>Wants to live in the most expensive parts of the country
Oh, lawd. Swrongwittem?

>>33252361
$3000 is as much as I'm willing to spend on living costs, not as much as I make.

>>33252368
Oh. That makes more sense. You're still looking at slumming it in NYC and unfortunately many parts of the country but with $3,000 you have a degree of choice. You're gonna have to sacrifice in some areas, and that's where your flexibility will come in.

>>33252328 (OP)
Yes, i lived there comfortably on $2.5k from 2019-2022. Just find a shared apartment.

>>33252492
>get a shared apartment
>your roommate is the anon in pic related

>>33252328 (OP)
It's nothing special unless you're rich. You would do much better to try Pittsburgh, "The Paris of Appalachia." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8k9NmjpW00

Easily
$3k for rent
Eat food from the dumpster of your closest restaraunt

>>33252385
>>33252492
>Rent - under $1500
>Location - Brooklyn or maybe Harlem?
>Internet/phone - $100
>Utilities - $150
>Groceries - $350
>Eating out - $150 (cheap meals or takeout maybe once a week)
>Gym - $100
>Unforseen monthly expenses + Leisure: $650
Is this reasonable or too optimistic?

>>33252664
My rent was $750 in Jackson Heights Queens
>phone/internet $25 with Mint mobile
>utilities were included with rent
>groceries and eating out ~$400 (but I wasn't dating and rarely drank alcohol)
>gym $20 Planet Fitness (let me guess, you need more?)

My entertainment budget was where I spent most of my free money. I got really into theater, which is the best thing about living in NYC imo. There are over 100 different plays put on every single night. I was going to see 2 or 3 broadway or off broadway plays every week, and going to the movies every week as well. There are around a dozen different arthouse movie theaters in NYC showing things you can't see anywhere else. But there are a bunch of ways to make theater more affordable. I'd say I was probably spending another $400 on entertainment each week with theater, movies, and sports.

So even at $2.5k a week I always had money left over at the end of the month. The big thing though was the housing was a bargain. My room was the size of a monk's cell in a shared apartment with 3 other people. Not even enough room for a desk, I had to get a wheeled hospital table and use my bed instead. But I treated my room as just a place to sleep, and tried to spend as much time outside of it as possible enjoying the city. My roommates were all chill and kept to themselves which was nice. Because my first roommate I had when I moved into the city was possibly a space alien. So you never know what you're going to get when you room with randos, and just have to hope for the best. At least he wasn't violent, but he did steal my security deposit, and even after suing him to get it back and winning (took years btw) he still never paid me. The guy built his entire life around having nothing in his own name, a true deadbeat.

>>33252812
>So even at $2.5k a week
*month
and that was after tax income just fyi

>>33252614
Who the fuck wants to live in Pittsburgh?

>>33252614
>22% black
no thanks

>>33255850
NYC is 20% black

>>33252328 (OP)
i make about 3600 a month in queens with a side business that brings in an extra 500 to a grand a month you will be fine if you have a room mate to cover half the rent (this is a 86k a year job by the way)

>>33255941
>3600 a month
>86k a year
that doesn't add up

>>33255908
>NYC is 20% black
Pain.

>>33255687
Pittsburg is higher quality of life than Philly and many parts of NYC that a working class person could afford. It is a little bit remote.

>>33256222
In some areas it's majority black.

>>33252664
1.5k sounds low for rent. The listings are online so you can start looking now.

>>33256222
Just dont live in a black neighborhood.

>>33256303
>1.5k sounds low for rent.
Only if you need your own apartment, easy to get a room in an apartment with roommates for less than that off of spareroom or craigslist.

>>33256455
Yeah just be careful of randoms. Where I lived, 1 out of 5 of low budget renters were insane or even dangerous.

>>33256447
Bro, they take trains and buses everywhere, this ain't the suburbs.

NYC sucks dick now dude it's not 2015 and you still think NYC is a massive party that never sleeps. The city is at least 60 percent South Americans from the Bidenwave now and thanks to COVID theres no places open 24 hours anymore the city is dead after 11 PM. Brighton Beach boardwalk i swear to God almost nobody will be White when only a few years ago everyone was White Slavs in that part of NYC. I'm Dominician and I may also be a beaner but even our own neighborhoods have been taken over by squatty fat South Americans. NYC hispanics used to be Caribbean, now they're from those shitholes

>>33257528
it's him!

>>33257528
What a laughably cringe post.

>>33257565
This literally doesn't apply to us though. Dominicans and South Americans have a very different genetic makeup we dont look the same. Mexicans and South Americans are similar
>>33257596
Ok transplant ive been living in this city my whole life and im telling you it sucks now. Go get some 4000 a month bedsit waste your money and then get disappointed when its just Guatamelans riding electric bikes for uber. You should feel embarrassed.

>>33252812
>gym $20 Planet Fitness (let me guess, you need more?)
Shit how are gyms so cheap in the US, this is even NYC of all places
I'm a poorfag living in Italy and even the most rundown gyms are 50€/mo starting

>>33258448
the history of NYC is that of subsequent immigrant groups. Its ridiculous for you to complain, especially as a dominican, that there are too many people from "shithole" countries because the same thing you're complaining about was no doubt said about your ancestors, and said about the slavic immigrants in brighton that you seem to bizarrely look up to for being whiter than you. Who gives a shit about their "genetic makeup?" I lived in Jackson Heights with the Mexican new arrivals and it was completely fine. I don't know what your beef is here. It's also just objectively wrong to say that the city is dead after 11PM, things are back to what they were before Covid.

>>33258491
There are a lot of expensive fancy gyms in NYC for rich people with pools and rock climbing walls and watnot, but that's surprising to hear they don't have poorfag gyms in Italy. I even had a more expensive membership that let me bring a friend, use any location not just the one I signed up at, and use their massage chairs. The basic solo membership at planet fitness is $10 a month!

>>33258496
lol fuck off. why is a liberal unironically going "NYC WAS BUILT BY IMMIGRANTS BRO" on 4chan. the immigrants in the past settled in their own enclaves. they never took over the entire fucking city. hispanics (mainly south americans) are now at least 30% of every single neighborhood.

>>33258509
I don't know if that's true, especially since I was living in a total immigrant enclave in Jackson Heights. I remember going to Greenpoint to meet a friend and thinking "oh...so this is where the other white people are living"

But its just a fact that NYC was built by immigrants, that's not a meme. I'm generally pro-immigration, because attracting strivers from all over the world and assimilating them is literally our cultural heritage as Americans. I say you should have some self-reflection about that because that's how I feel. I'm Jewish and my ancestors all came to NYC from eastern europe in the 1890s-1920s and they were treated as undesirables from shithole countries, but now I'm just a white guy. So I don't see any reason to look down on current immigrants who just want a better life for themselves and their families.

Not saying everything is totally perfect, or there should be open borders or whatever, but don't assume that just because someone's on 4chan means they have to be some racist trumptard caricature.

There are good deals to be found but you have to check daily and act quickly.

>>33259776
>harlem
>$1500 (not including utilities apparently) on a 3k budget
don't do this OP, having your own place is not worth being severely rent burdened.

>>33258509
>settled in their own enclaves
...which was part of the city incel

>>33259820
>Heat and hot water included
$1500 a month is completely fine on a $3000 budget, as long as your income isn't $3000. That leaves you with like $100 for internet/phone, maybe $100 for utilities, $50 for gym shit, $500 for groceries and eating out, $250 for toiletries or taxis or whatever, and $500 for funko pops.

>harlem
Poorfags live in poorfag places. Get used to it.

>>33259889
the problem isn't that its a poor neighborhood, its that its a black neighborhood

>>33259938
Yes, well, most of the poorfag neighborhoods are. They're cheap because they're black, and they're black because they're cheap.

>>33259847
a 15 block neighborhood is not the entire city, retard. don't call me incel. White women love when you speak Spanish to them gringo

>>33258517
immigrants don't just settle in barren wilderness, colonists do. colonists built NYC. immigrants came when the colonists already built it.
>i'm jewish
oh you're trolling

>>33259938
>>33259985
NYC doesn't have black neighborhoods anymore Hispanics took them all over.

>>33260172
are you dutch?

>>33260194
Poor beaners > poor blacks.

>>33260200
Poor beaners are much uglier than poor blacks and most of the ones who took over the black neighborhoods are the ghetto ones that act like blacks anyway so they're not any better to be around while you have to look at their ugly squatty 5'2 400lb frames.

>>33260241
Who cares if they're ugly, just walk to a different place.
The problem is noise, violence, and leaving trash everywhere.

>>33260262
Yeah poor beaners do that too bro. What's your point.

>>33260292
Less than blacks.

>>33260241
I don't give a shit about that, blacks commit crimes at much higher rates than anyone else, so I just don't want to live near them.

>>33260172
What on Earth are you talking about? NYC and the Hudson Valley has not been wilderness since the 17th century.

>>33260322
>NYC and the Hudson Valley has not been wilderness since the 17th century.
yes... because colonists, not immigrants, built the city there. retard
>>33260322
hispanics also commit massive amounts of crime you dumb fuck. while also being 20x uglier and fatter to look at

>>33260430
>colonists, not immigrants, built the city there
The building of a city is a perpetual process. The New Amsterdam of the Dutch colonists is not the NYC of today.

>>33260445
they established it retard if NYC was never established guatemalans wouldn't build it today.

>>33260506
I really don't understand what point you think you're making with this statement, or why it matters.

>>33260506
and most of the buildings from when the city was all white still exist. literally most of the iconic buildings of manhattan were built by whites. you aren't even correct.

>>33260527
see
>>33260529

>>33257528
>I'm Dominician
DE LO MIO CONO YA TU SABE!

>>33257528
>I'm Dominician
rip, hope you get better bro