Zohran Mamdani should be deported back to Camelfuckistan, however, affordability in NYC *is* a big issue. Average rent is now $5,000 in MFH, and that is for a perfectly mediocre, habitable room. Anything remotely ‘nicer’ aka, something normal, commands $6-$7k/month. In this environment, even high earners feel the pain. A shitty 1BR in the west village for $6,500 will have a line around the block.
Date: September 10th, 2025 10:31 AM Author: Bespoke primrose menage milk
this sounds funny coming from a shareblue shitlib. shouldn't an issue like this concern you? you have to be wealthy to just have an apt in mahattan now. you kind of always did (at least over the last 25 years), but this is outrageous.
The boroughs are done. Brooklyn (the places where you’d remotely want to live) are MFH price or worse (see Williamsburg, DUMBO, Brooklyn heights, park slope)
Queens is slightly more affordable but can you stomach saying you live in Rego Park?
The only ‘affordable’ borough may be Staten Island but you’ll need a car, so it ends up being the same as MFH.
Date: September 9th, 2025 11:31 PM Author: Floppy Soggy Base
I'm frankly staggered to hear that a person who wants to live in nyc would even fucking consider staten island, ljl at how fucking gay this earth has gotten, LIC used to be looked at as weird
LIC has been glutted with towers and it still hasn’t helped affordability, and it’s strangely predominantly Asian (both demographically and characteristically) it’s like NYC has a random neighborhood of Chongqing shoved in next to MFH with 80 percent of the price and 2 percent of the appeal). On Staten Island, at least you could rent a house instead of an apartment for the same price, but at the same time for this to even be a remote reality is un-fucking-believable.
Date: September 9th, 2025 11:37 PM Author: Floppy Soggy Base
I just wouldn't want a fucking house if I'm in nyc, azns in lic make sense given how close they are to the azns further out, but staten island is wild, I'd think the bronx would take off first
They’ve transparently tried to make the south Bronx “SoBro” (not flame) but you can’t get around the city actually needing one neighborhood for legitimate poors, infested with crime and grandfathered in projects, homeless shelters and ‘safe’ injection sites - very sad AND sick
Date: September 9th, 2025 11:41 PM Author: Floppy Soggy Base
I mean somebody has to do all of the actual work in midtown and then get back home without being able to afford a car, society can't run without that, but LJL at SoBro
Date: September 10th, 2025 12:05 AM Author: Lavender Casino
Ferries. They cross in a boat my friend. And they have busses they only let people on if you're wearing a suit and it goes directly to Midtown with no stops. If you don't look like you're going to work the driver will tell you to gtfo.
Date: September 10th, 2025 12:28 AM Author: Tantric violet jap mood
Jersey? Lol. Jersey City “nice” is 75 percent MFH price with 0.0005% of the appeal - look at “Newport mall” - it’s like Cinnabon and Qdoba are fine cuisine.
Hoboken? Imagine a bunch of rich, retarded kids from jersey who are so embarrassing they would make people from south Boston feel superior.
Outside that, it’s soulless suburbs, prole hellscapes, strip malls or ultra high-end mansions equivalent to owning a TriBeCa condo so pick your poison you dumb faggot.
Date: September 10th, 2025 12:55 AM Author: Lavender Casino
It has a lot of comfort that MFH doesn't have. Cheaper rent, larger living spaces, less density. The suburbs further out are exactly like any suburb of any NE metro. Less political upheaval, marginally more conservative at the state level, less taxes. Transit is easy depending on where you live. MetLife, really close to EWR. (Nowadays getting to LGA or JFK is so insane that richmos just helicopter vs finding some normal way to get to the airport.)
The list of reasons to pay more money and pay more taxes and have higher crime and deal with a shitload more problems is so you can physically 'walk' to the opera most people don't actually go to more than once a year? Or you absolutely have to take the subway to MSG or Yankee Stadium? If you grew up there and all your friends live nearby maybe I could see living in Manhattan. Or if you're really into the bar scene and nightlife.
Also this idea that it's so wonderful to not be around proles is so overrated. Once you meet enough MFH finance people you realize they are dull as hell. Does anyone really go holy shit I just dropped 2k on this meal and got to sit across from Jamie Dimon? Wow I'm really living the life. These other finance eggheads are really the most interesting people on Earth!
NJ is for people who want to work in Manhattan and don't actually like Manhattan you can get everything the city has to offer for way less of a hassle. And if you ever want to do anything in New York, you easily can. The people who say NJ is a prole shithole are desperately trying to justify why they give up so much to get so little.
Date: September 10th, 2025 1:32 AM Author: Floppy Soggy Base
the point of living in new york fucking city is living in new york fucking city, if you don't do that you're just wasting your time, you don't need to live in an overpriced NJ suburb either, people do but there is no real point to it, you could be in a thousand cities, why be on the edge of the big one?
Date: September 10th, 2025 10:25 AM Author: Lavender Casino
A lot of people have to work there because it's the hub of many industries but don't care about being part of the scene. Just do make more money than you would in Philly and chill.
besides inflation and interest rates it's mamdani-ism that is precisely the problem. 15% of any decent but older building is infested with lonely decrepit geriatrics who have been camping out in the same rent-controlled apartment since 1970.
don't fall for the "affordability" nonsense, it's a subterfuge for smuggling more undesirables into a city. the affordable housing gospel is not going to make apartments for people with any decent living standards any less expensive, it's just going to invite filth and crime. the real solution is to bulldoze LES and harlem and parts of brooklyn to make way for decent high-rises which will never happen on the scale that it needs to happen unless and until libs stop fetishizing brown skin.
mud people existing and american leaders giving handjobs to CHANG.
theres just millions of chinese slavers running amok buying everything with cash because the $tttattte level government in the US is hopeless, and condones money laundering chinks creating weird bug hive parallel societies just so they don't go bankrupt. lets not forget that china severely restricts foreign investment into their 'private' companies, and their slaver caste just outright steals 80% of the net profit from these companies and launders it into white people societies.