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Post by joseph on Feb 22, 2016 22:23:02 GMT -6
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Post by keymod on Feb 23, 2016 4:31:46 GMT -6
shame
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Post by yotonic on Feb 23, 2016 7:54:08 GMT -6
Yuppies? LOl. Obviously you don't live in New York. Yuppies can't afford NYC. Try "damn millionaires and Russian billionaires".
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Post by swurveman on Feb 23, 2016 8:02:12 GMT -6
Yuppies? LOl. Obviously you don't live in New York. Yuppies can't afford NYC. Try "damn millionaires and Russian billionaires". 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.
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Post by joseph on Feb 23, 2016 8:45:26 GMT -6
Yuppies? LOl. Obviously you don't live in New York. Yuppies can't afford NYC. Try "damn millionaires and Russian billionaires". Ha, born and raised. Believe me, I'm surrounded by them. They pay 4 grand for one bedroom walk ups. College students too. Not everyone lives in LLC apartments and condos. Just ask Martin, he probably knows.
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Post by joseph on Feb 23, 2016 8:49:52 GMT -6
Yuppies? LOl. Obviously you don't live in New York. Yuppies can't afford NYC. Try "damn millionaires and Russian billionaires". 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.
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Post by rocinante on Feb 23, 2016 11:06:39 GMT -6
I lucked out as a kid in my early twenties With Russian immigrant parents i got to jump on the rent control wagon and stayed for a few years in a decent one bedroom on Suffolk near Delancy my friends and i grabbed from my uncle. Late 90s and st. Marks was just a skateboard ride down the block. Those were great times. Tompkins square was an adventure and coney island high had fantastic bands from all over the world. I was a little crusty punk security mgr for limelight which was a pretty great place to work. I ended up letting my cousins and friends take over so i could continue traveling via frieght train and by the time i returned it was fading into the yuppie/millionaire pig pen it is now. Being a long islander this was a little too close to home so i moved on. Still there are many great places left. $17 for a pack of smokes though.
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Post by mrholmes on Feb 23, 2016 11:40:16 GMT -6
Yuppies? LOl. Obviously you don't live in New York. Yuppies can't afford NYC. Try "damn millionaires and Russian billionaires". 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....
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Post by Randge on Feb 23, 2016 11:49:23 GMT -6
I just can't fathom living there. So noisy and crowded. Nashville is plenty big enough but its far more affordable to live here.
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Post by ericn on Feb 23, 2016 12:00:14 GMT -6
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 .
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Post by mobeach on Feb 23, 2016 15:52:09 GMT -6
Boston is getting up there too. If you don't make $150,000 a year you have to live in one of the outlying slum towns.
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Feb 23, 2016 16:05:17 GMT -6
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!!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2016 16:13:05 GMT -6
Oh yeah we have a million dollar facility producing something that nobody buys. Wonder why this isn't working.
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Post by Randge on Feb 23, 2016 20:16:30 GMT -6
I just can't fathom living there. So noisy and crowded. Nashville is plenty big enough but its far more affordable to live here. I sincerely hope people from LA don't ruin it... seems like they're trying. I was in Nashville last Christmas and was told 25,000 people are moving in to the city each year - that's nuts. 100 people, or close to it, are moving to Nashville per day.
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Post by mobeach on Feb 23, 2016 22:09:06 GMT -6
I just can't fathom living there. So noisy and crowded. Nashville is plenty big enough but its far more affordable to live here. I sincerely hope people from LA don't ruin it... seems like they're trying. I was in Nashville last Christmas and was told 25,000 people are moving in to the city each year - that's nuts. A lot of Los Angeles musicians are finding new homes in Austin and aren't looking back.
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Post by cowboycoalminer on Feb 23, 2016 23:23:14 GMT -6
I just can't fathom living there. So noisy and crowded. Nashville is plenty big enough but its far more affordable to live here. I sincerely hope people from LA don't ruin it... seems like they're trying. I was in Nashville last Christmas and was told 25,000 people are moving in to the city each year - that's nuts. 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.
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Post by keymod on Feb 24, 2016 4:13:01 GMT -6
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!! Connecticut along Metro North ain't cheap. There's a reason they call it " the Gold Coast ".
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Post by tonycamphd on Feb 24, 2016 9:25:28 GMT -6
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.
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Post by junior on Feb 24, 2016 10:42:27 GMT -6
I just can't fathom living there. So noisy and crowded. Nashville is plenty big enough but its far more affordable to live here. I sincerely hope people from LA don't ruin it... seems like they're trying. I was in Nashville last Christmas and was told 25,000 people are moving in to the city each year - that's nuts. Yeah, but the reason a lot of us are leaving LA is because so many of y'all are coming here and driving things thru the roof, LOL. I guess things are tough all over...
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Post by Martin John Butler on Feb 24, 2016 11:04:48 GMT -6
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.
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Post by chasmanian on Feb 24, 2016 14:34:49 GMT -6
hey Tony, how in the hell does someone justify "jacked his rent from $3,000 a month, to $20,000 a month". thats such a ripoff, that it defies description. just plain insane, man. not fair, eh? guess I'm not moving to NYC.
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Post by tonycamphd on Feb 24, 2016 14:44:47 GMT -6
hey Tony, how in the hell does someone justify "jacked his rent from $3,000 a month, to $20,000 a month". thats such a ripoff, that it defies description. just plain insane, man. not fair, eh? guess I'm not moving to NYC. sorry, it was $3,500 to $20,000 thevillager.com/villager_90/inlittleitaly.html
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Post by chasmanian on Feb 24, 2016 14:48:38 GMT -6
oh, well that makes it so much better. lol just beyond comprehension. have not read any links in this thread. but specifically regarding your friend with the Italian restaurant, just wow. how can people live with themselves. here's a guy making fantastic Italian food. and his landlord raises the rent, astronomically, and puts him out of business. sad, eh? I don't how some people think. thats just miserable.
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Post by jcoutu1 on Feb 24, 2016 15:03:02 GMT -6
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Post by Quint on Feb 24, 2016 17:36:36 GMT -6
I sincerely hope people from LA don't ruin it... seems like they're trying. I was in Nashville last Christmas and was told 25,000 people are moving in to the city each year - that's nuts. 100 people, or close to it, are moving to Nashville per day. Same thing here in Austin. I believe it's around 110 per day. Crazy shit. And housing prices keep going up and up. I'm glad I bought when I did.
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