Will I ever be able to realize my dream of becoming a New Yorker? Probably not... at least not in a financially comfortable way. Read Paying the Price for Living in New York by Courtney Gross from the Gotham Gazette:
"New Yorkers already pay a high price to live here, and the cost of everything from a subway ride to tap water keeps going up."
Also, check out escapebrooklyn.blogspot.com for the perspective of a woman's plan to escape NYC. It is really well done; I am frankly jealous of her page. She moved to Brooklyn (supposedly the cheap part of New York) years ago, loved it at first, and now realizes she can't get ahead financially, despite a career in nonprofit. It is painful and depressing to read her count out every last penny she spends. Maybe New York isn't for me....
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