Damn yuppies ruined NYC.

shame

Yeah, my cousin's daughter and son-in law are a Hedge Fund analyst and a Lawyer and they cannot afford to live in Manhattan.

Depends which neighborhoods and square footage. Lots of people will accept anything these days. It's a lifestyle.

Not that I would recommend living in Manhattan at this point.

Yupp same here in Berlin Germany.
Cool times we had after the fall of the wall for many years, but now everything gets expensive rents go up since 15 years.
Real Estate ruins it all... some of those companies just speculate with it.
Or they build insane expensive flats which they can sell for stupid money.

Yet its not that extreme like in NYC or Paris or London.... but we are on the same road.
Many natives in Berlin can calculate that they cant afford their Hometown anymore when they are retired.
Its stupid gentrification and the politicians are doing nothing against it.

It goes that far that studios in town had to give up because the new owner of the building did not want to have a studio in there.
Cool quarters like Kreuzberg loose their stile.

A friend of mine had to destroy a room in room construction for about 40 k in Euros.


To many people reduce live to the point of how much money they make.
I would not call this a meaningful live, its just pure greed....

If you rent in a market like NY this is what happens, it sucks but take a look at the history and movements of most NY studios over the years, the realestate is always at some point just to valuable .

the wife and I are starting the process of looking to purchase a home (we rent now in a pre-war 60-unit building). If we wanted a house in the neighborhood we rent in now, we'd need 750K+ which is ridiculous, cuz those houses are TINY! it's lookin' like New Jersey, Long Island or CT, but it's a struggle because she's tied to her job location (some building right on top of grand central station) and commuting from those locations is rough. CT would be cool because she could just take MetroNorth direct to her office, but CT is at least 1-1.5 hours away from everything in the city, and that monthly metroNorth ticket from CT to Grand Central is like $300, almost $480 depending how far out you go!!

100 people, or close to it, are moving to Nashville per day.

A Greyhound bus pulls in and unloads a crew of hopefuls, then picks up another crew that's been beat down a few years and takes them home.  It's a cycle.   

We've had family friends since way before i was born that had a restaurant in little italy NY, on mulberry st, it was called Paolucci's est 1947, the food and atmosphere were right out of the movies, totally amazing, i'd try to go every time i'd visit the east, and Danny would sit myself and whoever i brought with me and say "loosen the belt" haha, and proceed to drop off dish after dish of the best italian food you could imagine, then at the end of the night he'd say with a big smile hands out to the sides...."Anthony!!! so great to see you! tell your father I said hello, and to come visit me!", a big hug and whisper in my ear "just tip my waiters and we're good", which would be a well spent $200, and believe me that was nothing for a few and a 4 hour drink and feast! Great times!!
    Anyway, they jacked his rent from $3,000 a month, to $20,000 a month and trashed him and his family's 60 year old business, along with about everyone else in the area, NY used to be something special, big monied wall streeters and zero sum faux culture speculators have all but ruined it.

I guess it all comes down to greed. Instead of wanting to live a life where you can accept yourself and feel you've contributed to the big picture, people grab all they can out of some kind of fear. It'll come to places like Nashville too, unfortunately. It'll just take some time.

I'm stuck here. I can't afford to save enough money to move anywhere else! I'll keep trying though. I love NY, but after living my life here, the things I love to do are done easier elsewhere. Musicians I know can't afford to make the time to ever play together unless there's some cash or a check afterwards. I'm all for getting paid, don't get me wrong, but since work pays around 5% of what it used to, I've changed my criteria. I just want to play again, and hear musicians in the same room. The money, what money? I just need to do it.

In Nashville, I know folks will make an effort to work with each other if they can. I can feel it from here.

sorry, it was $3,500 to $20,000

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