Posted on 10/12/2022 6:56:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Last May, Charlotte, 31, and her husband packed up their one-bedroom apartment on Christopher Street after learning the rent would likely skyrocket from $5,000 per month to $7,000. The couple loved living in the West Village, but homeownership was out of reach, even with her job in finance and him being in tech.
They were both working from home, so they could live anywhere. It was time, they decided, to leave New York.
“We considered Bronxville, and surrounding neighborhoods [in Westchester], but for what we wanted we would have had to spend well over $1.8 [million],” Charlotte, who makes more than $200,000 annually and declined to give her last name, told The Post.
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Not so bad as I have the woods of Southern Connecticut all around me.
NYC would be a better place if they shipped the welfare classes elsewhere and let the neighborhoods gentrify.
Proof that brainy people can still be taken. NYC is just sucker bait but thousands still take the bait apparently. Eventually learn the hard way.
Wait till they find out their “remote” jobs can also be done from Mumbai.
So you get to see the woods in the dark? I lived in Hoboken when I worked in NYC. 15 minute commute to the WTC. Moved when our second child was born
Insane commutes for the working class in that region. The next few years of fuel costs just may destroy the workforce. Who will do the plumbing, electrical work, landscaping, roof repair, auto service, or ditch digging?
I wake up in Newtown, CT at 4:44 AM. A shower and a quick breakfast of fried eggs in Kerrygold butter and Siggi's yogurt with berries swirled in. Out to my car at exactly 5:50 AM.
At the Westport train station right around 6:35 and I catch the 6:50 train which gets me to Grand Central around 8:05. I get a coffee and walk three blocks to my office on Lexington Avenue. I'm usually sitting at my desk at 8:20.
That's exactly 2 1/2 hours.
Reverse it for the way back but I do try to catch a train by 4PM so I'm back by 6:30. Still a long day.
What I like about it is I get almost 2 1/2 hours on a train in which I get a lot of reading done.
I'm sure it's much worse today!
Mumbai, hell, just wait until someone clues corporate in on how many people making six figure incomes can be replaced in a few weeks by a clever high school kid using Excel macros and email forwarding rules. Also, if someone ever points an AI engine at computer coding jobs, I'd bet that a computer can query and modify code from stack overflow a whole lot faster and more efficiently than the average coder. All of it is coming.
Why would anyone WANT to afford NYC.
That’s funny. I maxed out at 55k per year before retiring. House (small one) paid for, 2 vehicles bought used paid for, and the herd of donkeys fertilize the the 1/2 acre once or twice a week during the warm weather.
Wait till they find out their “remote” jobs can also be done from Mumbai.
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Sounds like my FIL’s schedule when my husband was a little boy. The train whistle was his signal that his dad was off to the city in the morning, and in the evening it meant he needed to get home from wherever he was playing. The difference was this happened on the LIRR, in the 60’s and 70’s.
THIS still bothers me.
American workers are quite aware that if their job could be outsourced overseas, the company would have done it years ago.
If they could live anywhere since they both work at home why on God’s green earth would they choose to live in NYC?
I lived in Southbury. Beautiful area to live. I Just don’t see how people can still afford the taxes, sheesh.
> Also, if someone ever points an AI engine at computer coding jobs, ...
Already happening. See openai codex and others. Deep Mind is doing some stuff, etc.
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