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[halik]

I feel like people responding here must never have lived in NYC. 75k would be easy to live on. You can rent a room for 700-1000 a month and the rest is up to you really. Yeah if you make a ton of friends and blow 300 bucks at the bars every weekend you'll be in trouble but you can certainly survive if you plan accordingly. There are tons of cheap and excellent restaurants, and groceries while more expensive... still make it cheap to feed yourself. You also most likely won't need a car, so no payment/insurance/tolls there. You'd be pulling in like 4k a month after taxes... you could have A LOT of fun in the city with that. There are probably literally a million people there in manhattan on a lot less. My GF lived there for 2 years on 50k.

Plus not to mention you'll be living in THE CENTER OF THE WORLD. Yeah, go take an IT job in idaho somewhere instead. Milking cows before riding a horse into into the village that has the internet. Thats where you want to be as a 25 year old.

Have you actually lived there? For 700-1K a mo you live in an old, run down 1 bedroom converted to 2 and not in manhattan. You're poor by any objective standard, as the your income after fed/state/city tax and housing is around 3K a mo. Add utils/food/cable/cta card and you're under 2K a mo disposable income.

In Manhattan you'll be looking at like 1500 a mo in rent, so that puts you right around 1K of disposable income. Welcome to poverty.

I've lived in NYC for 3 years before grad school; unless you're in finance and making it rain or an aspiring actor you'll find better quality of life any pretty much any other metropolitan area.

Also the CENTER OF THE WORLD thing just screams I grew up in middle america and this financially imprudent decision is me compensating. I've met countless ditzy girls in nyc, originally from some flyover state, living in manhattan and trying to live out sex and the city fantasies on 60K a year income.

 

[Insomniator]

Have you actually lived there? For 700-1K a mo you live in an old, run down 1 bedroom converted to 2 and not in manhattan. You're poor by any objective standard, as the your income after tax and housing is around 3K a mo. Add utils/food/cable/cta card and you're under 2K a mo disposable income.

In Manhattan you'll be looking at like 1500 a mo in rent, so that puts you right around 1K of disposable income. Welcome to poverty.

I've lived in NYC for 3 years before grad school; unless you're in finance and making it rain or an aspiring actor you'll find better quality of life any pretty much any other metropolitan area.

This is just wrong. Yes, you'd have a roomate/s and the apartment would be small. And you think 3k after housing/tax is low? What kind of utilities are you paying for?! Cable/internet/heat/electricity are no more expensive than it is in the surrounding areas.

You'd literally only have to find a deal on housing, my GF lived in two apartments in the upper east side (60's and 90's) for 1k a month. Small rooms but perfectly fine apartments. Great neighborhood, was a great time. Yeah you won't be saving/investing for the future but this is entry level... work the 40 hours and party the rest.

 

[Hacp]

Since when is an IT job a "tech" job?

 

[bearxor]

I feel like people responding here must never have lived in NYC. 75k would be easy to live on. You can rent a room for 700-1000 a month and the rest is up to you really. Yeah if you make a ton of friends and blow 300 bucks at the bars every weekend you'll be in trouble but you can certainly survive if you plan accordingly. There are tons of cheap and excellent restaurants, and groceries while more expensive... still make it cheap to feed yourself. You also most likely won't need a car, so no payment/insurance/tolls there. You'd be pulling in like 4k a month after taxes... you could have A LOT of fun in the city with that. There are probably literally a million people there in manhattan on a lot less. My GF lived there for 2 years on 50k.

Plus not to mention you'll be living in THE CENTER OF THE WORLD. Yeah, go take an IT job in idaho somewhere instead. Milking cows before riding a horse into into the village that has the internet. Thats where you want to be as a 25 year old.

I'm with you. $70k/yr would put each paycheck at about $1800 after taxes (assume single/no deductions), which gives you $3900/mo take home. Just from some looking around, I could get a 1k apartment, spend $500 on utilities and services (electricity, internet, cellular and 1k in food a month and still have $1400 in spending money. That's about as much disposable income per month that I have now and Charlotte is definitely not as lively as NYC.

I'd want to move there simply so I could try to get back in to production and editing.

 

[pauldun170]

In NYC, you don't need a car and and there is plenty of affordable housing options close to the city.
Fashion District is an awesome location since it is close to EVERYTHING, subways, LIRR, bus. I use to walk through there everyday when I commuted into Penn and walked to Grand Central area.
Lots of apartments to choose from. It comes down to neighborhood. You can find rents from 700-2700.
I have a friend who has lived in NYC for 15 years. She makes under 60K.
75K is VERY doable in NYC. Queens\Brooklyn\Bronx are the obvious choices. Staten Island also might have some decent housing. NJ is even an option. We have a lot of contractors who live in Jersey and they are in that salary range.
for 75K you could even swing Long Island but you'll need a car (can be any running POS that will pass inspection and get you to the train station)

I'm honestly surprised that they are paying that much for the work description.


If you do end up working in that industry, you could be a hot commodity if you are a straight single guy.
Its all mostly gay guys and straight girls.
Lots of overworked straight girls stuck in the office.

As for the models - Young cute faces. Issue is that a lot of them have bodies that only a gay fashion photographer could love. Awkward, bony, chain smoking 6ft tall youngins.
Except the walking around bra-less in light airy shirts in the summer....that's awesome. Lots of surprise nipple around there.

There is a certain level of pretentious bullshit in that crowd. I also don't hear many stories of "good management styles" but if I were single and a newbie to the industry this would be huge win.
Did I mention "surprise nipple"?

 

[destrekor]

You don't need a car in NYC. Lived there 2 years. Bus/subway/train gets you everywhere.

Well the point is: I have a car currently, for obvious reasons, and I'd like to keep one so I can get out of the city and go other places when desired.

I've never looked to live in NYC, but I have entertained the idea of big-city-living before, and I'm at a point where I do need to seriously consider the possibility - thus, considering all angles would be helpful.

 

[Stifko]

In NYC, you don't need a car and ..

If you don't have to deal with alternate side of the street parking, it is nice having a car here. There is a lot to be said for jumping in your ride and going where you want to. Public transportation is great and all but I like having a car too. Many times it is a burden, but is can be great to have one.

When I think fashion industry in NYC I think about the area down by FIT. 46th street & B'way to me says "theater district" but what do I know?

 

[destrekor]

I'm with you. $70k/yr would put each paycheck at about $1800 after taxes (assume single/no deductions), which gives you $3900/mo take home. Just from some looking around, I could get a 1k apartment, spend $500 on utilities and services (electricity, internet, cellular and 1k in food a month and still have $1400 in spending money. That's about as much disposable income per month that I have now and Charlotte is definitely not as lively as NYC.

I'd want to move there simply so I could try to get back in to production and editing.

It would be a boon to someone, like me, who is both considering a photography career and or writing as a career. I.T. is my bread and butter, but I am trying to work on a portfolio and, well, writing has always been my call but I have to actually get to work on a novel to see where that would go realistically.

 

[pauldun170]

If you don't have to deal with alternate side of the street parking, it is nice having a car here. There is a lot to be said for jumping in your ride and going where you want to. Public transportation is great and all but I like having a car too. Many times it is a burden, but is can be great to have one.

When I think fashion industry in NYC I think about the area down by FIT. 46th street & B'way to me says "theater district" but what do I know?

In the Fashion district you have all those garment shops, studios, photogs.
Between 7th and 8th in the high 30's low 40's.
Also on 6th down the street from Bryant Park there are sometimes some good "sights".
My sister and a few friends are in the industry and she was in down in the 20's but has since moved down town. However, I knew of a few designers who worked in the the official "Fashion District". I use to see her all the time. She designed sweaters. Also quite a few train folks work in the 30's as well.

Quite a few NYC friends do that zip car thing.
Those who do have their own car get to watch it slowly get destroyed by scratches, dings garbage trucks potholes etc etc.

 

[pauldun170]

46th street & B'way

I HATE that area.
From 41rst and 7th all the way up to 52nd and 7th.
Screw all that. I hate it as much as I hate 8th avenue from 42nd on up to 45th.