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EatingAssCuresCancer t1_irg0o70 wrote

I’m sorry but it’s a little hard to sympathize with a 23-year old living clearly beyond their means (paycheck to paycheck with a near six figure salary) complaining about affordability

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[deleted] t1_irg71rt wrote

Almost everyone in NYC makes less than 100k. Especially the people who right now over the past two years have moved there. Yeah, there are a ton of rich people in NYC. But there is an overwhelming number of people living on the edge.
I read the reddits here, and everyone is like "I'm going to be working this bullshit office job making 65k. How can I move to Williamsburg or the LES?".
IMO, that's someone living well beyond their means.... 65k isn't even a decent living in Dallas. Seriously.
It's true that the more you make, the less you can stomach being financially irresponsible. Good for the 23yo in the article for being practical and sensible.

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Visual_Shelter8046 t1_irhbu4r wrote

a young single person can live in brooklyn or queen semi-responsibly on 65k, might actually be a practical early career decision because they can generally anticipate faster salary gains in their early career than other parts of the country.

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EgoDefenseMechanism t1_irgu3v9 wrote

So, anecdotally, I make just into the low six figure range and live in NYC,so income not that far off from that woman. Yes, there has been some noticeable increases in cost, namely rent and groceries, but that's it, and in the outer boroughs this was annoying, but not an economic catastrophe as this article tries to portray. My rent in Queens went up $200 from 2020 to 2022. Grocery bill went up about $100 per month too.

But I'm doing fine. I pay my rent and still save, but maybe just 10% less than pre pandemic. This article is the usual clickbait "NYC is going into an apocalypse of `1980s death" and nothing more. Yes, rents have skyrocketed in the trendy Manhattan neighborhoods that were already populated primarily by millionaires. But most neighborhoods, especially in the outer boroughs, experienced little to none of that. If you MUST live in, say, Chelsea or the Upper East Side, then yea, maybe you can't afford that like someone with a $100k salary could have in 2015. But you'd be fine in the rest of the city.

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DontDrinkTooMuch t1_irits8w wrote

Don't know why you're being downvoted. There's still plenty of affordable places in the city that's not Manhattan - it's true, but I suppose all the NYC haters that float on this sub either don't understand, don't know, or don't want you to spread anything against their gospel that NYC is "failing".

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ArearugTrashcan t1_iro0hu0 wrote

Same. My life hasn’t changed pre to post pandemic. Do I wish my salary increased with rent and other inflation? Sure do. But I still make low six figures am very comfortable and can’t complain.

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