Everyone says live in ny for a year and it will be the best year of your life

[OlympiaGym]

not at all, for what we pay for my 1br in Brooklyn we could easily get a 2-3 br in the lower or upper east. Manhattan has jumped the shark unless you're eastern European, Persian or over 40

That's what people in Astoria, LIC, and gentrified parts of Brooklyn tell themselves to rationalize not living in Manhattan. It's like people who buy a Samsung and insist that it's better than Apple. Real ballers live in Manhattan. Always have, always will.

And I'd like to know where in Brooklyn you are paying what you would pay in the LES or UES for a comparable apartment. You can't compare a renovated apartment in a doorman building in Brooklyn Heights to an unrenovated walk up in Alphabet City.

[OlympiaGym]

Two family members purchased a small $600,000 (approx) apartment in the Brooklyn area and when other family members fly east to visit them, they have to sleep standing up.

And I have been told that rentals are so expensive oin Manhattn that it is not too uncommon for nite and daytime workers to share the rent and only sleep in a one-bedroon unit when the other is at work.

Or something like that.

$600K won't go very far in a good Brooklyn neighborhood. You might be able to get a half-way decent studio that's a good distance from the nearest subway station. While property taxes will be relatively low you might have some fairly high common and maintenance charges depending on the building's finances.

[IRON CROSS]

I love NYC. Best city ive visited hands down. Last time i went was last november, central park was so nice, felt like I was in a movie walking in those streets.
Probably one hell of an experience to live there for a while.
But you NEED money, its not somewhere you want to be if you dont make a good living. I see people talking about cars and shit, you DONT NEED A CAR thats the point of living in a city.

Looks like U didn't travel too much 

[Hypertrophy]

Chimps lives in Canada where the population of blacks is less than 2.5% of the population- so he is nicely insulated from reality. He always plays the virtue signaling role on GetBig. If he was a true liberal he’d move to Detroit or Chicago and live with the brothers. But the reality is he’s a limousine liberal and a chickensh!t.

[calfzilla]

Chimps lives in Canada where the population of blacks is less than 2.5% of the population- so he is nicely insulated from reality. He always plays the virtue signaling role on GetBig. If he was a true liberal he’d move to Detroit or Chicago and live with the brothers. But the reality is he’s a limousine liberal and a chickensh!t.

I have some "friends" on Facebook like that. Constantly virtue signaling and taking about how bad whites are and how great blacks are. Then I look at their friends list and it's 98% white. Also their pictures they post with friends are all white. Where are they hiding their black friends? Oh that's right, they don't have any. 

[mphgrove]

The attitude on OlympiaGym’s posts you might want to take a closer look at. You’ll run up against a lot of that NYC “I am special” provincialism if you move there. Just like in SF area. But, on the whole, much cooler people than what you’re running into in LA I’m guessing. More variety of types, interests, passions, achievements, etc.

[NelsonMuntz]

In all seriousness Flintstones from your posts you sound like you already have a decent life built for yourself, with a cleint base etc. The grass is not always greener on the other side

Example, here in toronto there is alot of various opportunities, yet housing has skyrocketed, energy costs(heat, electric, hydro has gone up a few hundred percent the past decade) and car insurance is ridiculous, never mid there is no where to park unless you live outside the city or own some stupid bungalorw that is overvalued at $800,000-1,000,000.

People I know and am realted to back in montreal who make on par or even less then most here can afford their homes, energy bills, and car insurance although gas is about 10 cents more a liter and the income tax is way higher.

trying to say is no matter where you live there is give and take. If i was you and really wanted to move to a place where you can live well and ply your trade, then find a small city somewhere away from the monstrosites of cali and ny and set up business there.

i have known a few people who have moved to smaller cities in Ontario and other small cities in canada away from the large urban areas and have done quite well for themselves.

Even some of the guys here who have training businesses in your state and others have upped and moved to smaller cities away from the greater nyc and la regions and probably get more bang for their buck and quality of life than before.

Lots of people make fun of goodrum, but he is smart moving away from the total urban bullshit where he gets more bang for his buck.

I may move back to quebec next year sometime for those very same reasons, right after I finish up some courses I am enrolled in