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[deleted] t1_irg71rt wrote

Reply to comment by EatingAssCuresCancer in Not the Place to Be’: Young Professionals Are Leaving New York - Bloomberg by EvanMcD3

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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