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re: Rent advice-NYC postersquote: Let's also triple the disposable income shall we? your 100K in annual disposable income, let's go ahead and triple that to 300k, cool? Oh, and your 50K in annual savings, let's just go ahead and triple that to 150K. saying making 250K in Arkansas is like making 650K in NYC is just dumb. This post was edited on 5/2 at 4:12 pm Reply • Back to Top |
| You can save money in NYC if you want. It's actually easy. 1. Spend $104 on a monthly unlimited subway card (You take away car payement, insurance, and gas). 2. Buy all your food at Trader Joes (somewhat comparable prices to Wal-Mart). 3. Don't have fun, or if you do only do specials. The entire city is a string of bars, you can find deals (especially unlimited brunch drink specials) everywhere. 4. Don't punch guidos. (It's hard, really hard, but you can't fight up here. Everyone goes to jail and everyone's a lawyer.) Reply • Back to Top |
quote: As a new resident I was shocked how things at Whole Foods are basically the same price here as they were in Atlanta. And you are a better man than I am waiting in those lines at Trader Joes. I will gladly pay a little extra to get in and out. Reply • Back to Top |
| I save money by riding my bike anywhere I can go. I stay in shape, and it's free transportation. I also cook at home and bring my lunch nearly every day. I still go out 2-3 times a week though because what's the point of living in NY if you don't get to enjoy it? I save the most though, by living in brooklyn. Manhattan is WAY overrated and it's just not a good fit for me. Reply • Back to Top |
| I'm trying to angle my way up there in the next 3 months. Best shot is coming up soon so we'll see. :fingerscrossed: Reply • Back to Top |
quote: what's your game plan? i'm wanting to go back sooner than later myself. Reply • Back to Top |
| Hope I can convince this analyst to give me a shot to be a junior analyst for him. That's all I got, that's my best chance as its the only place I have any sort of connections. Reply • Back to Top |
| I only follow steps 1 and 4. Most of my disposable income that isn't saved is spent on dates and drinks. Reply • Back to Top |
| Just curious, they have wal mart in NYC? Reply • Back to Top |
| Negative, they're trying to build one somewhere but so far no dice. Reply • Back to Top |
| They have a Target in Queens and Brooklyn. Reply • Back to Top |
quote: Why backlash? They would make a nice store there. They aren't going to dump a shitty store in NYC like it's some random place in the US. Nicer places have nicer built Wal-Mart with products that actually appeal to it's area and interests. Reply • Back to Top |
quote: How long does one have to work coming out of college with a decent degree (engg, finance etc.) to start making $150 to $250k in NWA? This post was edited on 5/2 at 10:21 pm Reply • Back to Top |
quote: I live about two blocks away from Courthouse Metro and it is indeed nice. But a few months back for the hell of it I figured out what kind of place I could buy in a depressed market like Miami or Vegas for the 780 s.f. condo I currently own. I could be typing this from my glass-enclosed pool right now (seriously). But earning enough to afford that would have been much more difficult there. Plus I like the people here in DC. Reply • Back to Top |
If I knew anyone in Miami I would move there for like 2 years in fricking heartbeat. Douchebags are everywhere, but man, I'd probably have to have reconstructive surgery because my face would probably permanently be:  Reply • Back to Top |
quote: A long time. I was more talking like getting in a gig with Wal-Mart or even better, a company that sells to Wal-Mart. Reply • Back to Top |
| A person working in New York would reach 6 figures in salary much faster and that salary growth rate over their career will also be be much faster than someone working in NWA. Like the other person said, just because the cost of living is higher in New York doesn't mean $250k in NWA is worth the same as $650k in NY or whatever you said it was. Online cost of living calculators are one of the worst predictors out there. I saw it first hand when I moved from TX to CA what a steaming pile of shite they all were. As an example, one of them said for someone that makes $90k in TX needs to make $150k in CA to maintain the same standard of living. Yeah right. Good luck convincing a new employer to give you a 66% raise just because you are moving from one state to another (especially if you are fairly young). I didn't even come close to getting the kind of raise that these calculators estimated, but my quality of life has gone up if anything. If you control your spending, the higher disposable income you have every month is just something you will never have if you live in a cheap state making a much lower salary. Reply • Back to Top |
| I don't want to give the impression that I wouldn't notice a huge difference in living if for god knows what reason I moved to NWA with the same salary. However it wouldn't be a more than 100% difference as the calculator is claiming. I estimate that if I moved to NWA on my same salary it would be about equal to someone giving me a 25K-30K raise. Big difference, but no where near more than the double the calculator claims. Reply • Back to Top |
| i think moving to nwa the main savings would be your real estate. but throw in a benz and a tahoe and the insurance to get around and your right back where you started. This post was edited on 5/3 at 8:13 am Reply • Back to Top |
| Taxes would be another huge difference. Rent and taxes are my biggest expenses. Reply • Back to Top • Refresh |
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