Yeah I split a little less than $1800 for a one bedroom w/ my partner so $900 each a month in a very accessible area of queens. Your best bet is to go through a broker honestly. I know it’s tedious, but what ends up happening, at least in my experience, is that a lot of old school landlords who are just content to have the property managed for them and don’t care to advertise heavily end up having prices a few hundred bucks lower than what you might see online from somebody trying to fill a newly renovated apt.
Yeah online is though because you’re only seeing what ends up being advertised by people savvy enough to be online. Obviously there are some ridiculous rents in NYC, but I pay what I pay for a building that’s pest free, one block from the subway.
The big benefit of NYC is that anything you’d want to do is accessible, even if it’s just for a day trip. I actually feel sometimes like I take for granted where I live considering you could have a completely new experience every single day
You can get a studio for less than that, maybe a 1br if you're lucky, or if you have roommates you can get a big ass 3-4br for like $900-1200 each. You won't be in Manhattan but who cares, the trains go everywhere at all times.
Toughest part would probably be nature because the city is so huge, but there are trains that go to beaches and state parks and stuff within like 60-90 min of the city
Plenty of places in deep Queens/Brooklyn that are less than an hour from Manhattan by train that have decent rent. Jackson Heights/Flushing is the most diverse place in the United States (and potentiality the world) and you can find studio apartments for around $1k.
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Yeah I split a little less than $1800 for a one bedroom w/ my partner so $900 each a month in a very accessible area of queens. Your best bet is to go through a broker honestly. I know it’s tedious, but what ends up happening, at least in my experience, is that a lot of old school landlords who are just content to have the property managed for them and don’t care to advertise heavily end up having prices a few hundred bucks lower than what you might see online from somebody trying to fill a newly renovated apt.
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Yeah online is though because you’re only seeing what ends up being advertised by people savvy enough to be online. Obviously there are some ridiculous rents in NYC, but I pay what I pay for a building that’s pest free, one block from the subway.
The big benefit of NYC is that anything you’d want to do is accessible, even if it’s just for a day trip. I actually feel sometimes like I take for granted where I live considering you could have a completely new experience every single day
You can get a studio for less than that, maybe a 1br if you're lucky, or if you have roommates you can get a big ass 3-4br for like $900-1200 each. You won't be in Manhattan but who cares, the trains go everywhere at all times.
Toughest part would probably be nature because the city is so huge, but there are trains that go to beaches and state parks and stuff within like 60-90 min of the city
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Plenty of places in deep Queens/Brooklyn that are less than an hour from Manhattan by train that have decent rent. Jackson Heights/Flushing is the most diverse place in the United States (and potentiality the world) and you can find studio apartments for around $1k.