14) Also, you only have control over elementary. By middle school, kids test into good schools. So you might get stuck in your shitty neighborhood high school or, more likely, send your kids to a private school that cost $15k/year. Check please, up front, like the other parents.
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15) Around all of this, New York City is only slightly worse than Las Vegas for separating you from as much of your income as possible as soon as it can. $50 Uber here, $30 cab there, $60 Seamless order over that way. Like a band? Good news, they're going to play here.
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Like sports? Take your pick. Nothing's better than ditching work to take the train to a baseball game on Opening Day. Or any day. What's that? Mets season tickets package start at $1500?
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16) So you've moved farther away from work, sit on the train with homeless people, and hope that today isn't going to be the day the homeless guy decides to snap or the kids doing "Showtime" kick you in the face by mistake.
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17) Why not drive to work? Or anywhere. Because driving here is miserable. When you're not dodging cabs or buses, you're sitting in traffic. That's before the tolls. My EZ-Pass bill is about $100/quarter... before the ones I pay sitting in Uber.
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Just don't tell your co-workers you use Uber instead of Lyft. Then you may have to sit through a diversity lecture on how Uber is socially ill. Make sure you keep up on current liberal orthodoxy.
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Long story not short: nobody romanticizes living in New York City because it isn't fucking romantic. It's a hard, terrible, stressful grind in which you are largely surrounded by criminals and scammers, and must also become a scammer (in some ways) to survive it.
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All your interactions are clipped (NYC's famed rudeness is just the social understanding that I don't waste your time with pleasantries and you don't waste mine).
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The only people who romanticize living here are people who don't live here. They have vacation eyes or television eyes. Carrie Bradshaw did more damage to women than maybe anyone in history.
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The city is a tool, and its use is to work for 10-15 years to build enough resume fodder to get the fuck out.
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or paying off debt: you may not live any better than you would elsewhere because cost of living matches your income, but if you owe $80K on college loans you owe that same $80K anywhere and it's a smaller chunk of what you're making there
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