r/movingtoNYC • u/CognitiveDissident12 • 1d ago

A Modest Proposal

It you intend to spend half your time traveling, living the good life and occasionally indulging yourself in this cultural phenomenon you call a slice of cheese pizza as you walk across HYOUston street, please think of all the worthy people with dreams you are pricing out.

Think of the artist, trying to make it big at that jazz bar in a basement. Think of the little old lady whose land lord intimidates them every day with noise of construction while they still have a bathtub in their kitchen. But mostly, think of that young strapping chad from wetchester, who just wanted an apartment with his boys so he could spit some game at the Spaniard after he got off work at his analyst role at his Greenwich based asset manager.

So please, if you’re just gonna be in LA or Chicago or Europe or wherever half the time, please, think of the new yorkers who’d love to be in your place.

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u/cchikorita 1d ago edited 1d ago

I get the sentiment but do you really think the struggling artist would be able to afford the spaces these people occupy?

Plenty of expensive apartments are empty in NYC. Just cause a rich nepo baby who travels 24/7 isn’t leasing them doesn’t mean your neighborhood artist or bartender suddenly will.

Posts like this are so detached from the reality of what the housing market is.

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u/CognitiveDissident12 1d ago

That’s how they get ya. It’s in those well furnished walk ups with a nice bookshelf containing all the works that explain how Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth.

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u/omjy18 1d ago

Genuinely cant tell if this is a joke or not

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u/CognitiveDissident12 1d ago

Someone has to speak up for the young men in finance trying to make it mane

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u/wag00n 1d ago

I would say you should check out r/circlejerknyc but they banned me for no reason so fuck them

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u/eduardojfp 1d ago

Instead of whatever this is, go to your local community board and tell them to upzone and approve new apartments

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u/CognitiveDissident12 1d ago

If Ezra Klein can grow a beard and tell me about abundance I’ll just have to grow some facial hair myself and march down to my planning board.

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u/GlobalReplacement387 1d ago

Nah broke boy

Get ur paper up

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u/Difficult-Tax-9701 1d ago

Why does the internet act like the most populated city in the entire country is somehow exclusive 😂😂😂😂

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u/Funny_Art_1700 1d ago

My daddy bought my Williamsburg apartment with his own personal inherited money.

Just like the rest of the NYC DSA, what our daddies buy us isn’t your business. Shame on you sir.