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Describe NYC on $100k a year

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Pope Leo XXX
  09/06/26
Substantially worse than NYC on $80k.
luke the drifter
  09/06/26
Right in that doughnut of maximal shittiness. NYC is good i...
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  09/06/26
At what income level does life in NYC get good?
DOCTOR Quintessa Hathaway
  09/06/26
Honestly probably like $1.8-$2m per year. Taxes are high and...
luke the drifter
  09/06/26
$1.8-$2m per year prole tell, lol
Pope Leo XXX
  09/06/26
how mnay people live in the zone of maximal shittiness wh...
Pope Leo XXX
  09/06/26


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Date: September 6th, 2026 5:18 PM
Author: Pope Leo XXX



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Date: September 6th, 2026 5:22 PM
Author: luke the drifter (definite and ineradicable gauge of its upward moving)

Substantially worse than NYC on $80k.

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Date: September 6th, 2026 5:25 PM
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Right in that doughnut of maximal shittiness. NYC is good if you're poor and the city hands you everything and you couldn't get all of that elsewhere (on the UWS I noticed one of the public housing areas had both parking and a pool, both of which are rare for market apartments except for very high end buildings) or rich as fuck. $100k is just that salary where you'll get absolutely nothing but not wealthy enough that you can actually appreciate the luxury stuff either. Yet, at $100k you could live a pretty great life in a place like Cleveland or the Atlanta area or whatever.

But to answer your q - if you're smart you find a rent stabilized apartments or you live in Hoboken/Jersey City. If you're dumb you live in some apartment you can't actually afford but get roommates and deal with that drama. You feel pretty poor and are budgeting everything.

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Date: September 6th, 2026 6:51 PM
Author: DOCTOR Quintessa Hathaway

At what income level does life in NYC get good?

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Date: September 6th, 2026 6:57 PM
Author: luke the drifter (definite and ineradicable gauge of its upward moving)

Honestly probably like $1.8-$2m per year. Taxes are high and housing is expensive so making even 7 figures won’t get you to first base anymore, but at $2m you start to have options.

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Date: September 6th, 2026 7:02 PM
Author: Pope Leo XXX

$1.8-$2m per year

prole tell, lol

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Date: September 6th, 2026 7:02 PM
Author: Pope Leo XXX

how mnay people live in the zone of maximal shittiness

what kind of pedigree/employability does one need to have to break free out of that zone

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