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MAD King · 06-12-2009, 11:08 AM

We always loved New York and Los Angeles, but we have no idea wich city we shall choose.
I thought I could ask you guys here in this forum about your advices and about which city we should choose.
We have $3000 income a month right now, but when we can find jobs beside this we have of course more. But we still looking for a nice affordable safe place in either LA or NY.
We like those cities because we are from Europe and those cities are more European.

newtoli · 06-12-2009, 11:34 AM

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Thank you nice link. But

Coffee in LA $5.04
in NY $5.43
in Idaho $5.99 in any store.

What we want is a nice, safe, affordable place either in NY or LA for living. We like both cities.

That's probably a large cup of coffee from a coffeeshop they're talking about, not a pound. A pound of coffee in the burbs of NYC here is around $9.

MAD King · 06-12-2009, 11:38 AM

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That's probably a large cup of coffee from a coffeeshop they're talking about, not a pound. A pound of coffee in the burbs of NYC here is around $9.

OK. That is then expensive.

I am talking about pound.

newtoli · 06-12-2009, 11:47 AM

You could find a small place in the suburbs about an hour out, but you won't be able to get 3BR in a nice area on your budget... for example, I am about an hour out on Long Island now, you can rent a small decent (not updated) 1BR for about 1,000 monthly. Is that $3k before or after taxes? Do you have children? a Car?

MAD King · 06-12-2009, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by newtoli

You could find a small place in the suburbs about an hour out, but you won't be able to get 3BR in a nice area on your budget... for example, I am about an hour out on Long Island now, you can rent a small decent (not updated) 1BR for about 1,000 monthly. Is that $3k before or after taxes? Do you have children? a Car?

No Kids, one car so far. 1BR for about 1,000 monthly? That is really expensive, but I think the same price for an 1 BR Apartment in Los Angeles.

omigawd · 06-12-2009, 12:39 PM

For 3K a month, you MIGHT get a 1br apartment.... I think you better look into areas in Queens or Brooklyn.

I think you better do a bit more research, visit Manhattan for a couple of weeks, and see what you're getting into. There's no way you're going to make it in Manhattan on 3K/mo unless you, your wife want to squeeze into a studio that's about the size of a large bedroom for about 1700-2K/mo.

MAD King · 06-12-2009, 01:01 PM

What about around NYC?

Green Irish Eyes · 06-12-2009, 02:19 PM

Best thing for you to do is get jobs lined up so that you'll know what your income is. Once you know that, people can help you with different neighborhoods/areas that are within your price range.

MAD King · 06-12-2009, 02:31 PM

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For 3K a month, you MIGHT get a 1br apartment.... I think you better look into areas in Queens or Brooklyn.

Does this mean, that everyone is making more then 3K a month in New York?

adambos · 06-12-2009, 02:34 PM

Have you spent time here? not to sound like a jerk, but you cant even USE idaho as a basis for ANYTHING manhattan.