Gotta agree....40k in Manhattan just won't work. Maybe if you never eat or drink outside of your 400 square foot apartment and can live on two small meals a day, you might have a chance.
Maybe if you have 4 roomates in a 1 bedroom. either you guys have never lived in Manhattan or you're some type of magician to make this work. I lived there for 4 years. 40k you cannot do it without sinking into debt.
If you are from Manhattan and you cannot live on 40k a month, you need to learn some serious money management. I have never paid over 1k a month rent for my 4 years living in NYC. I've lived with 3 different roommates and now have my own place for 1k a month. You gotta have contacts and know how to negotiate fair deals. No it's not rent controlled, I only wish I got the rent controlled place I aimed for a while back. I can keep my food costs extremely low, about 300 a month. Bills, CCs, student loands are variable person to person but those were my big expenses. And you gotta find the right places to party and how to conserve cash. Get to know bartenders, look for free parties, sneak those tiny liquor bottles inside the place, etc. 40k a year in Manhattan is very possible to live on and have a bunch of fun. I've done it, all with my crazy bills and debts. If you know how to work your taxes, you will actually keep a very good majority of that money. Look, how do you think all the actors, musicians and artists do it? They make like 20k a year. You know what the average income is in East Village? 16k a year. Lower East Side is like 10k a year. Shit man, I've had to manage it for like 8 months on unemployment. So do not even try to tell me that 40k is not enough in Manhattan for a single person.
your killing me when do you get laid. also what kind of woman in nyc will eat a 5 dollar meal and watch tv on your first date. i will pray for you my friend haha
When that guy said "live", I think that he meant reasonably. $30/ per day for meals?? You know some good soup kitchens? Have to know friends to have fun? You take an emergency cab ride and your budget is whacked! And how much can you save?
yeah, if you don't mind living in a roach infested sH*thole and eating taco bell evry night, you can get by with that much.. one other thing, NYC is full of TFKPTBA's hiding in $100 thrift jeans... interpretation: Trust Fund Kids Pretending To Be Artists.
what r u talking about? DUDE I RAN THE FUCKING SCENE THERE, in Manhattan. I know NO ONE LIVING ON 40K a year.....you must be from some farm town thinking that way. Not only did I attend Latin, I started the fuking rave scene.... Had my nights at TWILLO with Sasha and Digweed, had my Night at Tunnel with Victor Calderon, did special guest spots for DISCO 2000 with DJ KEOKIE........dude i saw people trying to live in Manhattan back in the fucking late 80s early 90s on 40k.....IT AINT HAPPENING THEN AND IT AINT HAPPENING NOW.... SO stop spouting out BULL about a CITY you have no CLUE ABOUT.....
TOOOOOO many idoits thinking they can move from their town to tackel the big apple on fucking 40k and 8 room mates in a 400 squar apartment, ( which by the way, HAS NO MORE RENTCONTROLL)....will watching SEX IN THE CITY with some Jersy chick..... And you wonder why natives to NYC have left the area......invasion of the idoits drove us out.
WHAT was is ur addrease for 1k a month...Just give me the street? I was just in NYC for a show.....i go back all the time......NO FUCKING APARTMENTS IN THE VILLAGE FOR 1k BULLSHIT or the LOWER EAST SIDE< nor BATTERY PARK, NOR UP BY NYU...or off Washington Squar Park, or near the M.S.G. or IN CHINA TOWN or LITTLE ITALY (Whats left of it)............1K......you gota show me listing or something.....because i call bullshit.....