NYCPHP Meetup

[Eric Gewirtz]

Hi Joe,

 

I'm from the New York area - grew up in Queens (Howard Beach) and Jersey -
went to college in Manhattan - I now live 50 miles north of the city - I
love it here and for now would not live anywhere else - 

 

As someone else mentioned the big issue is cost of housing and rentals too
are high. It is easy to find an apartment but you really have to spend time
and look around. The neighborhoods in all of the NYC boroughs are very
diverse and they change from block to block. Plan on spending a good few
weeks touring and talking to people on the streets especially local business
people (cleaners, florists, restaurant owners, etc) they will give you good
info. Be sure to check out the neighborhoods both daytime and evening (they
can be much different). Before you rent, call the local police precinct and
ask them what they think of the neighborhood, they know best and most of the
cops are pretty cool and will be glad to offer you their opinion.

 

As to keeping a car in the city, make sure you have parking, parking on the
streets sucks, and you can really mount up on the parking tickets. I would
not limit yourself to Queens, there are some really nice neighborhoods in
Brooklyn these days. Manhattan would be the best but the rents are crazy.

 

Make sure you check out what schools your kids would go to, unless you plan
on sending them to private school. A lot of the city public schools are
great, especially if you kids are good students, they offer amazing
specialty schools but if you kids are just average students and they are in
the "wrong" school you may not be too happy.

 

Btw - I hope you do not plan on driving to Ellis Island, unless your car
floats :-)

 

 

Eric

 

-----Original Message-----
From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org] On
Behalf Of Joseph Crawford
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 1:00 PM
To: NYPHP Talk
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] [OT] - NYC Salaries

 

Guys,

I appreciate the feedback, having never spent much time in NY i was unsure
about the cost of living, i think i am going to go to the interview, and
start looking around a bit more for housing.  Is it hard to get an apartment
down there?  I know most want references and i probably couldnt get a
reference from my landlord of 3 years now because i would be breaking a
lease to move.  There are also other issues going on between him and i. 

Thanks,

-- 
Joseph Crawford Jr.
Zend Certified Engineer
Codebowl Solutions, Inc.
http://www.codebowl.com/
1-802-671-2021
codebowl at gmail.com 

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