>>2821802
>What is living in NYC actually like?
I used to live in Hoboken, NJ across the Hudson from Manhattan and took the PATH over daily for work. Commuting vai public transit kind of sucks but you do more biking, walking, using public transit, and a lot less driving. That's good and bad I guess in hindsight, I like walking to places more than being forced to always drive places but if you cook at home, grocery shopping is a much larger pain in the ass hauling groceries up six flights of stairs and you learn to live with less stuff. I don't like having to share space with the numerous future felons who lack any impulse control and fail to fight the urge to demand attention with ridiculous stunts, and being hassled by homeless losers who regular the dirty and late train/subway system that I am forced to pay for as a good citizen while the countless dregs and losers jump the MTA turnstiles. Japan's train system is heaven in comparison. Pay is high but cost of living will always be higher, I pay around 1/3 what I paid in rent in Hoboken now in a MCOL city in the Midwest, yes I make around 25k gross less a year but financially it doesn't even come close to touching the COLA difference, I currently put aside 35% of my 110k salary towards retirement alone. The food was better in NYC, the entertainment was better, flight availability was better, weather, nightlife, dating situation, and nature nearby in Jersey/PA is better than where I live now. But honestly I just cook at home, I can watch movies at home, I still have some moderate dating opportunities but it is far more full of fatties, single moms, and other aimless losers the rest of those you either outgrow or if you have been to the MET three times, it really doesn't make a difference visiting every few years vs living there. I hope to be able to retire in my early 40s right now, I would never be able to do that living in the NY metro as the value proposition there is far inferior.
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I used to live in Jersey City, NJ right beside Hoboken, I had a view of Manhattan walking out of my condo every day. Unironically, it was the worst four years of my life despite the high pay, I moved to a medium density suburb about 40 minutes west, got a new job and my quality of life is significantly better. Not having to walk everywhere to get fucking grocery, not having to go up four flights if stairs to get to my condo, not having to drive 1/4-1/2 mile away for the privilege of parking my shitbox to go to ShopRite for groceries. I don't know how people continue to delude themselves, I guess if I ate out every day, didn't have a car and just relied on the good will of joggers on the PATH and MTA. Dating was shit too, don't kid yourself, you're no better off as a man in Manhattan as you are in Louisville, KY. In fact the expectation of women in NYC is outrageously high despite the large number of them, you're unironically better off without 99.9% of them. Being in a big city is fun for a year or two but after you've done the big touristy bullshit, it honestly kind of sucks and is insanely expensive and most of all inconvenient.
I used to live in Jersey City, NJ right beside Hoboken, I had a view of Manhattan walking out of my condo every day. Unironically, it was the worst four years of my life despite the high pay, I moved to a medium density suburb about 40 minutes west, got a new job and my quality of life is significantly better. Not having to walk everywhere to get fucking grocery, not having to go up four flights if stairs to get to my condo, not having to drive 1/4-1/2 mile away for the privilege of parking my shitbox to go to ShopRite for groceries. I don't know how people continue to delude themselves, I guess if I ate out every day, didn't have a car and just relied on the good will of joggers on the PATH and MTA. Dating was shit too, don't kid yourself, you're no better off as a man in Manhattan as you are in Louisville, KY. In fact the expectation of women in NYC is outrageously high despite the large number of them, you're unironically better off without 99.9% of them. Being in a big city is fun for a year or two but after you've done the big touristy bullshit, it honestly kind of sucks and is insanely expensive and most of all inconvenient.