I don’t live in Manhattan, the local bus would turn a 25 minute drive into well over an hour commute. There’s also NO subway . Not really much of a choice.

Mandatory pension contributions, union dues, we have 2 cars as we don’t live in a borough with useable public transit, plus both constantly bringing materials to and from work. Utilities and just life events constantly (weddings birthdays etc).

Like I said we have enough to save but we don’t have a lot of disposable income at all.

I mean my household is 150k and shits tight. Had to sign a lease in the middle of the height of rents spikes in NYC paying 2,200 a month. Tiny amount of saving for the house we also can’t afford and basically working to live.

That’s much harder for people making 80k. I’m aware. But roommates are the only answer. My room mate is my fiancé, as I wouldn’t ever be able to live alone on my 75k salary.

Thanks haha

Very original.

Come to Staten Island on a snow day and tell me how safe you feel on the expressway haha also I’m born and raised here 29 years.

It’s the weirded thing, slushy snow the entire way to the outer bridge then you get to NJ and there’s literally plows on the every lane.

I’m talking about the highways dude, not the streets.

I live in NYC, and from my experience driving to and from NJ in snow, your highways are ALWAYS being plowed by 4-6 trucks while icing mid day.

In NYC they just wait till the over night crew starts it up.