<story><title>Leaving NYC for Nashville</title><url>http://wesmckinney.com/blog/leaving-nyc-for-nashville/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickdandakis</author><text>&amp;gt; In 2011, while primarily working on pandas, I was paying $2000 per month for a ground-level &amp;quot;1 bedroom&amp;quot; apartment in the East Village. It was less than 500 square feet and had none of the above amenities.&lt;p&gt;You know, you can always tell when a non-native New Yorker lives in New York, because they all choose one of five neighborhoods to live in, and then complain about their poor living conditions.&lt;p&gt;My guy, you can live in one of the other boroughs, have an average commute to work, and have good living conditions that satisfy at least half of your list of requirements there for $2000 in 2011.&lt;p&gt;Like other commentators here have said, people of a certain class (and age) want to have their cake and eat it too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cribbles</author><text>I guess you could get a slightly larger apartment in Sunset Park or Jackson Heights or somewhere but you would still be paying a preposterous $2000 (realistically $2500+ in 2018) for that, and now you&amp;#x27;ve added NYC&amp;#x27;s cramped, unpleasant, &amp;quot;state of emergency&amp;quot; transportation infrastructure to your daily grind. For all that you get housing that is _still_ laughably austere in comparison to what you&amp;#x27;d get nearly anywhere else in the country.&lt;p&gt;For what it&amp;#x27;s worth, I lived 7 or 8 places in about two years when I lived in NYC, in pretty much every Brooklyn neighborhood within a 20-40 minute radius from where I worked. Saved lots of money too - never lived alone, did social stuff in my neighborhood, took full advantage of the City to the best of my ability. After all that, I came to the following verdict: NYC is stupidly overpriced and has a substantial quality of life problem.&lt;p&gt;I am admittedly a non-native, so perhaps some of the finer charms of the City will always be lost on me. But I don&amp;#x27;t know - I&amp;#x27;m living in Berlin right now, which isn&amp;#x27;t _too_ drastically different, and can&amp;#x27;t say I find myself missing NYC at all.</text></comment>
<story><title>Leaving NYC for Nashville</title><url>http://wesmckinney.com/blog/leaving-nyc-for-nashville/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickdandakis</author><text>&amp;gt; In 2011, while primarily working on pandas, I was paying $2000 per month for a ground-level &amp;quot;1 bedroom&amp;quot; apartment in the East Village. It was less than 500 square feet and had none of the above amenities.&lt;p&gt;You know, you can always tell when a non-native New Yorker lives in New York, because they all choose one of five neighborhoods to live in, and then complain about their poor living conditions.&lt;p&gt;My guy, you can live in one of the other boroughs, have an average commute to work, and have good living conditions that satisfy at least half of your list of requirements there for $2000 in 2011.&lt;p&gt;Like other commentators here have said, people of a certain class (and age) want to have their cake and eat it too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>voidbip</author><text>This. NYC is more than just Manhattan. My two children, my wife and I live in a 3 BR apt, with backyard access and laundry in the basement, in Ridgewood, Queens for 1750 a month. Its 30 minutes to Union Sq. by subway and 40 minutes by bicycle. I am amazed when new college grads at my job tell me they are renting a &lt;i&gt;room&lt;/i&gt; in Manhattan for how much I am paying for a full floor apartment in Queens.</text></comment>