Where would you like to live?

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Originally Posted by Lucas Barton

Tokyo or New York. now, i don't have anything against Los Angeles. we have literally everything at our finger tips, pretty much 24/7. can't complain one bit. awesome city.

but i'd much rather live in a huge metropolis. looking up into the sky and seeing nothing but sky scrapers in every direction, all the great architecture, an endless amount of people in every direction, that atmosphere... i really can't describe how i feel about it, but it's one of the things that i want most in life. it's just...perfect for me.

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Well ..being a citizen of NYC I can tell you that its a fine place to live...BUT..you best be sure that you can earn a decent income as the cost of living here is pretty damn high. The rent of a 1 bedroom apartment here is around $900 on average per month. The sales tax is 8.25% which I think is around the highest in the nation (maybe it IS the highest..not sure). Most people in NYC shop in either Jersey or Conneticut due to lower sales tax in both states.


In a perfect world I would actually stay in NYC providing that I have money..but I dont. I would actually love to live in a more colder climate.. maybe Maine? Seems like a nice place. I went to Montana once and thought it was actually quite beautiful. The weather is cooler and the cost of living is quite low...but ya gotta watch out for them bears! I saw a few over there..but it seemed like a nice place to live when I get older.

Me? I like New York, but the winters are a bitch. I'd love to have a place in California I can retreat to when things get rough here.

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Originally Posted by MVS

In a log cabin in the woods somewhere.

I'd like to be that crazy old guy that never goes anywhere without 2 guns, hunts bears and other big animals, makes his own moonshine and constantly says how shitty and controlling the government is.

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You sound like the Iceman. You gonna hunt sharks with your bare hands too?

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Originally Posted by Green

I wonder how many people are going to say Japan...

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Heh...I was wondering the same thing. When I posted there were 20 replies to this topic, I expected 90% of them to say Japan.

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Originally Posted by raystorm

Well ..being a citizen of NYC I can tell you that its a fine place to live...BUT..you best be sure that you can earn a decent income as the cost of living here is pretty damn high. The rent of a 1 bedroom apartment here is around $900 on average per month. The sales tax is 8.25% which I think is around the highest in the nation (maybe it IS the highest..not sure). Most people in NYC shop in either Jersey or Conneticut due to lower sales tax in both states.

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$900/mo for a one bedroom in very cheap for the NYC Metro. Unless things have changed a lot in the past 2 years you're not going to find anything like that in Manhattan or even Northern NJ or pretty much anywhere anyone would want to live, especially oming to the area for the first time. Hell it would be hard to find something that cheap in central NJ where my parents live, about an hour from Manhattan.

Also, most people from NJ shopped in Manhattan because there was a lot more selection. Screw the 3% more in tax. :p

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Originally Posted by Dolemite

Me? I like New York, but the winters are a bitch.

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In NYC?! NYC barely even has winter most of the time! Entire winters go by with no snow sometimes. It really sucks having pansy winters like that.

Real snow and cold temps >>>>>>>>>>>>> Freezing rain and general miserableness.

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Originally Posted by sggg

$900/mo for a one bedroom in very cheap for the NYC Metro. Unless things have changed a lot in the past 2 years you're not going to find anything like that in Manhattan or even Northern NJ or pretty much anywhere anyone would want to live, especially oming to the area for the first time. Hell it would be hard to find something that cheap in central NJ where my parents live, about an hour from Manhattan.

Also, most people from NJ shopped in Manhattan because there was a lot more selection. Screw the 3% more in tax. :p

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That's true.. actually.. $900/mo for a one bedroom is typical OUTSIDE of manhattan. I live in the Bronx so 900/mo is the usual price unless you get lucky and find a nice rental in a private house or just decide to live in a shithole (South Bronx). I would never live in manhattan as its just far too expensive there. Sure thats where all the stuff is at..plus public transportation takes you where you need to go fairly quickly.

Unless you make a minimum of $500/week at your job I dont see how you can live comfortably on your own in manhattan (on anywhere else in NYC for that matter) unless you live with a roommate or just live in a shitty hood.

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Originally Posted by sggg

In NYC?! NYC barely even has winter most of the time! Entire winters go by with no snow sometimes. It really sucks having pansy winters like that.

Real snow and cold temps >>>>>>>>>>>>> Freezing rain and general miserableness.

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snow or not the cold still gets pretty bitter.

i live in maryland right now. near college park. i used to live in a pretty nice area in DC when i was growing up. i'd like to move back into the apartment that i used to live into. my mom still rents it out. that would be a great place for me to live. i wouldn't mind living in london for a while or even canada....maybe toronto since i have family there. i like urban city areas more than the suburbs. i find the area i live in a lil depressing. when i was younger and living in DC i could just walk down the street to the arcade or comic book shop. rent video's go grocery shopping, chill at a coffee shop....it was all right there and very easy to get to but here in maryland you need a car to get around. my car isn't always in the best of shape, not to mention paying for gas and worying about things like tires and this and that and the other. yeah, i'd like to live someplace where a car isn't a necesity.

I live in a numbingly boring yuppie-infested town half an hour west of Toronto.

I need a better job so I can remove that half hour between me and it.

Right now I live in Jersey City, NJ. Only takes me about 15-30 minutes to get to Manhattan. I love the city but where I live crime is too rampant. Having to be home before the sun goes down so I don't get shot is a huge burden.

I would love to stay in a city like NYC because my band can get more gigs that way in small bars. I really look forward to moving to Los Angeles once I get enough cash after graduating college. I'm a city boy for life.

Canada.

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Originally Posted by sggg

In NYC?! NYC barely even has winter most of the time! Entire winters go by with no snow sometimes. It really sucks having pansy winters like that.

Real snow and cold temps >>>>>>>>>>>>> Freezing rain and general miserableness.

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This is true, the last few winters have been kinda wimpy. I just hate cold.

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Originally Posted by sggg

Me too. :) I want to live in Reykjavík one day.

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Hell, I'd love to even have the oppertunity to visit Reykjavík someday soon. There's an enormous amount of travelling I want to experience before I begin to settle into my life. Iceland tops my list, though. :)