OT: "LIfe" NYC-Style

We went exactly the other way four years ago (2500 ft^2 to 3600 ft^2). It still costs us around $2K a month and that'll drop another 60% once the mortgage is paid off.

Oh, and the 3600ft^2 doesn't count the 2000ft^2 of walk-out basement.

Garbage and shit don't smell "funny".

Taxes (and rents) are not worst that the suburbs of NYC, perhaps, but outrageous but normal standards.

I meant Manhattan is much worse than the rest of the city, which is no worse than the suburbs. The small apartments in the OP post are in Manhattan. I've heard of people paying through the nose to live there when they could live in a place like Astoria 20 minutes away by train for a lot less money and much better restaurants.

I've been wined and dined in Manhattan a few times and found the restaurants inferior to what I can find in Scottsdale (AZ) for a lot less money... and no be subjected to snarly "service". ...Jim Thompson

Yes, but still absurd prices/taxes by normal standards.

I know a guy with a 3 bedroom house so full of junk there is just a little narrow path leading from the front door to the kitchen. The only place to sit down is in the kitchen or bathroom. I guess you call those people packrats. And there was another guy with a large house he didn't live in, and slept in his truck parked on the street. He had about 15 old cars in the yard and another truck packed with stuff. The only place to sit in his truck was the driver's seat. And he kept all the lottery tickets and newspapers he had ever bought. But he never had to look far for a paper coffee cup since there were probably 50 or more behind the driver's seat. He had a dirt driveway since the city would raise his property taxes if he paved the driveway. But he was interesting to talk to. I never saw the inside of his house.

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Yea, but you can't beat the Bagels and Fresh Rye bread ;D

Cheers

We have that too ;-) ...Jim Thompson

On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 18:55:53 -0500, "Tom Del Rosso" Gave us:

NYC started it and took over $250M worth in the first two years alone. THEN the other states followed with the retarded horseshit.

Before the billboard went up, a man could walk down the street, talking to a cop and smoking a joint.. AFTER the billboard, all the 'peace officers' turned into PIGS and that is how the man got the NYPD broomstick handle up his ass, and the same guy, IIRC ended up shot at his brownstone with 40 rounds, some of which ended up entering the bottoms of his feet.

NYC sucks so bad they suck at sucking.

On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 18:55:53 -0500, "Tom Del Rosso" Gave us:

Murders dropped because the mob left. (or moved into stock trading and casinos)

It had nothing to do with the gov and everything to do with the feds.

On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 17:18:24 -0700, Jim Thompson Gave us:

A damned sight more than you do, dumbfuck.

And about as relevant as you talking about your wife's inability to walk without busting her ass.

What a mess- they'll never fix that situation.

On the flip side, Tokyo has that HUGE Imperial Palace and grounds:

"During the height of the 1980s Japanese property bubble, the palace grounds were valued by some to be more than the value of all of the real estate in the state of California"

Cheers

NYC is not the South Bronx circa 1982.

Well, I'm no expert on such things. I'll defer to your judgement...;)

One of the guys I work with- native New Yorker- says that really nice cars are actually safer because they might belong to someone who would

--sp