re: Moving to New York in your 20s

Things in NYC are on the rise with their new communist like mayor.

There’s no better place to live as a young person on the planet. I did for two weeks of training in a nation wide session of brokers for Smith Barney. 18 months later had a six week training for those who qualified. Granted housing was paid for in a hotel, but that was the funnest and most rewarding time of my life. It was amazing. Beautiful girls everywhere and really smart people.

My wife went to college here and never left until we got married and had three kids.

I moved in my 30s. All I can say is that you better have a plan before moving here.

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She’d be starting mostly from scratch, picking up smaller jobs at first.

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She has an advantage not many before her had.

She can show her butthole in OnlyFans to make rent as long as she needs to.

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There’s no better place to live as a young person on the planet
Smith Barney

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No better place than to be a new employee for an investment bank with partners abusing expense accounts to feed you and get you wasted.

They're not the same. She's chasing emotions (shocker,) discounting how much film production there is in much cheaper COL locations like Georgia, New Mexico, Canada, etc. At least if you move to LA you could end up whoring yourself out on Vanderpump Rules as a waitress.

Is this person Jewish? If not then tv/movies are out the door

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Young people are about all I see on the streets of Manhattan these days

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Living in any big city is a young persons game. It takes so much energy just to get from point A to point B. And when a couple get a bit older and their first child comes along, the wife wants the white picket fence and a yard so little Johhny and Susie can play outside. It would be a blast as a younger, more successful, better looking version of myself. But I’m too old and cranky for that now.

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And be murdered by an immigrant on the subway? No thank you

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Always felt safer in NYC than in NOLA and BRLA. This thread really exposes how little people know about the NYC area.

I lived in NYC for three years attending graduate school. I knew only one person who was the daughter of my dad/s business partner. I met her a couple times before but knew nothing about her. Hung out with them and met fellow Lousianians/New Orleanian transplants. Then they took me to an LSU alumni football game party, and met more. I established a good social network.

Every one of them that I knew was there to basically extend their college experience as a professional. They all had career jobs, but were chickenshit for the most part. Most if not all of the people I knew either moved somewhere else, or back to their hometown.

One friend of mine who graduated LSU with a general business degree went up there and reality hit him. He was competing with alumni from far elite programs, and many of those were working in restaurants hoping to land a career job.

The only exception is a good friend of mine who went to Tulane MBA and loved finance. He moved there after graduate school and has killed it ever since. He has been raising a family on the Upper East SIde for over 15 years. He has had enough of NYC and is trying to move to Florida but he has irons in the fire for something in NOLA.

Everything that is successful has its risks, its lows, its struggles, and an unlikelihood that it will happen. However, the payoff could be big. There is nothing wrong with a failed attempt, but odds will be against them.

I think living the NYC life is great if there is a set time limit to it. Go there to get experience, get cultural, establish connections, have a fun time, build a resume, and then move on. If they don't succeed but are too stubborn to give it up, they will eventually turn into a screaming lib who hates successful people because in their mind they are "qualified" to be just as if not more successful.

My goddaughter did this, she had interned in NYC between her junior and senior year at LSU and was offered a job once she graduated. She loved the energy of the place and the company she went to work for pretty much guaranteed her next job (if she ever left there) would be stellar.

She's not a fan of cold weather, that first year after graduation was one of the coldest in recent NYC history. On top of that, there was a terrorist attack (Muslim rolled up on a sidewalk to take out pedestrians) right in front of her apartment building. After a year of that, she decided that having 2 roommates in a 2BR apartment (the living room served as the 3rd bedroom) and dealing with all that shite wasn't worth it (plus her then-b/f-now-husband was still in Baton Rouge).

She enjoyed a lot of things about her time there, but she enjoyed even more coming back to a place where her paycheck afforded her a house, a car and a much higher standard of living.