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Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2022 2:46 am
I'm joining a v20 firm this fall, located in midtown. I'm under the impression that a decent 1B1B cost around $6,000? Don't really want to spend half of salary on rent. Any data points?
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Depends on where you want to live, but there is absolutely no reason for you to be spending $6000. There are certainly 1B1B that cost that much and more, but that is in a luxury bracket most people don't find necessary/affordableAnonymous User wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 2:46 amI'm joining a v20 firm this fall, located in midtown. I'm under the impression that a decent 1B1B cost around $6,000? Don't really want to spend half of salary on rent. Any data points?
It's close to impossible to find a 1B below 3k in manhattan right now, for a studio, might be doable
Yeah, very close to impossible, there are only 118 on streeteasy in the Upper East Side alone.Anonymous User wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 10:18 amIt's close to impossible to find a 1B below 3k in manhattan right now, for a studio, might be doable
y'all crazy. Doing Biglaw in Seattle and bringing home just under 12K a month as second year.thisismytlsuername wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 10:24 amYeah, very close to impossible, there are only 118 on streeteasy in the Upper East Side alone.Anonymous User wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 10:18 amIt's close to impossible to find a 1B below 3k in manhattan right now, for a studio, might be doable
https://streeteasy.com/1-bedroom-apartm ... rice:-3000
Congrats! Hey everyone, look over here at this guy who works in Seattle! He likes his life so much that he reads threads about rent in NYC!Anonymous User wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 10:46 amy'all crazy. Doing Biglaw in Seattle and bringing home just under 12K a month as second year.thisismytlsuername wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 10:24 amYeah, very close to impossible, there are only 118 on streeteasy in the Upper East Side alone.Anonymous User wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 10:18 amIt's close to impossible to find a 1B below 3k in manhattan right now, for a studio, might be doable
https://streeteasy.com/1-bedroom-apartm ... rice:-3000
Different person than the one you're responding to, but while it's possible to find a 1 BD under $3,000, the majority of those apartments don't have basic features like a dishwasher and laundry in the building. I moved last year and it's hard to square NYC prices with what you get if you're coming from anywhere else. I personally did not consider a walk-up apartment without a dishwasher and/or laundry in the building to be a "decent apartment" when I was looking.thisismytlsuername wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 10:24 amYeah, very close to impossible, there are only 118 on streeteasy in the Upper East Side alone.Anonymous User wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 10:18 amIt's close to impossible to find a 1B below 3k in manhattan right now, for a studio, might be doable
https://streeteasy.com/1-bedroom-apartm ... rice:-3000
Sure, if you want a bunch of features that 90% of apartments in NYC don't have, that's going to limit your pool a bit.Anonymous User wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 1:55 pmDifferent person than the one you're responding to, but while it's possible to find a 1 BD under $3,000, the majority of those apartments don't have basic features like a dishwasher and laundry in the building. I moved last year and it's hard to square NYC prices with what you get if you're coming from anywhere else. I personally did not consider a walk-up apartment without a dishwasher and/or laundry in the building to be a "decent apartment" when I was looking.thisismytlsuername wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 10:24 amYeah, very close to impossible, there are only 118 on streeteasy in the Upper East Side alone.Anonymous User wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 10:18 amIt's close to impossible to find a 1B below 3k in manhattan right now, for a studio, might be doable
https://streeteasy.com/1-bedroom-apartm ... rice:-3000
That said, if your vision of a decent apartment is a doorman building with an elevator and new fixtures and a dishwasher and laundry in unit, that's running $5,000+ for a 1 BD in Manhattan right now.
While there’s no need to spend $6000 or anywhere close on a 1 bed, the old tenement-style walkups on the UES for sub-$3K are mostly super shitty.thisismytlsuername wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 10:24 amYeah, very close to impossible, there are only 118 on streeteasy in the Upper East Side alone.Anonymous User wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 10:18 amIt's close to impossible to find a 1B below 3k in manhattan right now, for a studio, might be doable
https://streeteasy.com/1-bedroom-apartm ... rice:-3000
$6K is insane and out-of-budget for a biglaw first year. But you’re going to the other extreme. Whether someone pays $2500 or $3500 is 24 grand over 2 years. Not exactly a king’s ransom.Anonymous User wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 6:46 pmCaution future NY associates -- this thread is full of blatant propaganda from big-dishwasher/-washing machine. A strapping young associate does not eat enough meals at home to need a dishwasher, and it's easy enough to do a wash and fold service for your clothes. Say yes to crown molding, so no to washing out of biglaw in two years without a penny to show for it.
I laugh at the arrogant ones who thought working for a large firm was a reasonable shot at becoming rich. I do not laugh at those who underestimated how difficult it is to become financially secure with decent hours in corporate life. It is pathetic a lot of these posters are fighting to achieve neutral net worth in their late 20s/early 30s while they bicker over 1BRs costing 3k or 6k per month and whether this includes a doorman or an elevator. You hold a professional license and you are doing your own laundry? You got tricked. And let's say it all works out for them a decade down the line. My children will know my name and have a higher credit limit than theirs. "Dad" to their children just means any man talking to them who isn't homeless as they are chained to a desk with fire drills.axiomaticapiary wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 6:53 pmSummoning titan of the Orlando medmal bar John “Adirondack” Dooley to laugh at NYC kids who have been cucked into paying $6,000 for a fucking laundry machine
You can have all the urban excitement you can ask for AND EVEN DO LAUNDRY in Chicago or D.C. (and some hipper parts of Los Angeles) with a lower cost and less headache. Here is a good location, doorman, sizable 1BR with plenty of amenities: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/233- ... 6755_zpid/Anonymous User wrote: ↑Wed Aug 03, 2022 1:28 ampeople have different desires john. It's great that you have a big house in a lower cost of living area or whatever, but some people like the excitement of the city and don't mind doing laundry.
I’m as big of a Dooley fan as you’ll find on this website, but not everyone doing NYC biglaw is a “mark” for a “scam” — if somebody borrowed $300K under the assumption they’d immediately get a sweet apartment in the West Village and strike it rich, then sure, that person is an idiot. But paying $4K a month for rent and making $400K as a midlevel is not exactly being shaken down IMO.johndooley wrote: ↑Wed Aug 03, 2022 10:58 amYou can have all the urban excitement you can ask for AND EVEN DO LAUNDRY in Chicago or D.C. (and some hipper parts of Los Angeles) with a lower cost and less headache. Here is a good location, doorman, sizable 1BR with plenty of amenities: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/233- ... 6755_zpid/Anonymous User wrote: ↑Wed Aug 03, 2022 1:28 ampeople have different desires john. It's great that you have a big house in a lower cost of living area or whatever, but some people like the excitement of the city and don't mind doing laundry.
Here is a good location with architectural features people in the Village all want (and this probably has working plumbing): https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1809 ... 6995_zpid/
You see, these 20 and 30-somethings flocking to NYC are little more than "marks." They are marks for the housing scam, for the 60-80 hour a work week scam (unless you are in some crazy competitive finance position or neurosurgery resident where millions may very well come your way), for the trendy t-shirt scam that is made in Vietnam. They are fed Seinfeld and How I Met Your Mother and Friends and told you have to move to NYC and student debt is no biggie if you go to a T-14 and enter corporate law.
That Chicago apartment is revolting. I've lived in Manhattan for 10 years and never paid more than $3200/month in rent, and all of my apartments have been nicer than that (with the possible exception of my very first apartment which was a $1500 one bedroom), and I'm still a multi-millionaire from biglaw. I'm such a mark.johndooley wrote: ↑Wed Aug 03, 2022 10:58 amYou can have all the urban excitement you can ask for AND EVEN DO LAUNDRY in Chicago or D.C. (and some hipper parts of Los Angeles) with a lower cost and less headache. Here is a good location, doorman, sizable 1BR with plenty of amenities: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/233- ... 6755_zpid/Anonymous User wrote: ↑Wed Aug 03, 2022 1:28 ampeople have different desires john. It's great that you have a big house in a lower cost of living area or whatever, but some people like the excitement of the city and don't mind doing laundry.
Here is a good location with architectural features people in the Village all want (and this probably has working plumbing): https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1809 ... 6995_zpid/
You see, these 20 and 30-somethings flocking to NYC are little more than "marks." They are marks for the housing scam, for the 60-80 hour a work week scam (unless you are in some crazy competitive finance position or neurosurgery resident where millions may very well come your way), for the trendy t-shirt scam that is made in Vietnam. They are fed Seinfeld and How I Met Your Mother and Friends and told you have to move to NYC and student debt is no biggie if you go to a T-14 and enter corporate law.
If you went to a bad undergrad (like I did), coasted in an easy major with a 4.0, went to law school for free, and then got big law that can make sense (better to go to a good undergrad and just work a remunerative corporate job from age 22 on though). Even though the taxes in NY/DC/LA are not ideal, without the student debt load it can be okay. If you pay NYC taxes, get hit by the marriage penalty, have to pay NYC rates of daycare for children, and have a student debt load, you are being jobbed hard. I'd say any two of those four is getting conned. And this is before you look at buying a 2BR/3BR apartment or a house in a suburb within 40 minutes of your office.Res Ipsa Loquitter wrote: ↑Wed Aug 03, 2022 12:01 pmI’m as big of a Dooley fan as you’ll find on this website, but not everyone doing NYC biglaw is a “mark” for a “scam” — if somebody borrowed $300K under the assumption they’d immediately get a sweet apartment in the West Village and strike it rich, then sure, that person is an idiot. But paying $4K a month for rent and making $400K as a midlevel is not exactly being shaken down IMO.johndooley wrote: ↑Wed Aug 03, 2022 10:58 amYou can have all the urban excitement you can ask for AND EVEN DO LAUNDRY in Chicago or D.C. (and some hipper parts of Los Angeles) with a lower cost and less headache. Here is a good location, doorman, sizable 1BR with plenty of amenities: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/233- ... 6755_zpid/Anonymous User wrote: ↑Wed Aug 03, 2022 1:28 ampeople have different desires john. It's great that you have a big house in a lower cost of living area or whatever, but some people like the excitement of the city and don't mind doing laundry.
Here is a good location with architectural features people in the Village all want (and this probably has working plumbing): https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1809 ... 6995_zpid/
You see, these 20 and 30-somethings flocking to NYC are little more than "marks." They are marks for the housing scam, for the 60-80 hour a work week scam (unless you are in some crazy competitive finance position or neurosurgery resident where millions may very well come your way), for the trendy t-shirt scam that is made in Vietnam. They are fed Seinfeld and How I Met Your Mother and Friends and told you have to move to NYC and student debt is no biggie if you go to a T-14 and enter corporate law.
This. No in-building machine is actually a superpower because it's social cover to rely exclusively on laundry services.Anonymous User wrote: ↑Wed Aug 03, 2022 12:43 pmAlso, I'd much rather pay $20/week to have someone do my laundry for me. I haven't folded an article of clothing in a decade.
Yea, dude, no debate on the laundry point........Anonymous User wrote: ↑Wed Aug 03, 2022 12:43 pmThat Chicago apartment is revolting. I've lived in Manhattan for 10 years and never paid more than $3200/month in rent, and all of my apartments have been nicer than that (with the possible exception of my very first apartment which was a $1500 one bedroom), and I'm still a multi-millionaire from biglaw. I'm such a mark.johndooley wrote: ↑Wed Aug 03, 2022 10:58 amYou can have all the urban excitement you can ask for AND EVEN DO LAUNDRY in Chicago or D.C. (and some hipper parts of Los Angeles) with a lower cost and less headache. Here is a good location, doorman, sizable 1BR with plenty of amenities: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/233- ... 6755_zpid/Anonymous User wrote: ↑Wed Aug 03, 2022 1:28 ampeople have different desires john. It's great that you have a big house in a lower cost of living area or whatever, but some people like the excitement of the city and don't mind doing laundry.
Here is a good location with architectural features people in the Village all want (and this probably has working plumbing): https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1809 ... 6995_zpid/
You see, these 20 and 30-somethings flocking to NYC are little more than "marks." They are marks for the housing scam, for the 60-80 hour a work week scam (unless you are in some crazy competitive finance position or neurosurgery resident where millions may very well come your way), for the trendy t-shirt scam that is made in Vietnam. They are fed Seinfeld and How I Met Your Mother and Friends and told you have to move to NYC and student debt is no biggie if you go to a T-14 and enter corporate law.
Also, I'd much rather pay $20/week to have someone do my laundry for me. I haven't folded an article of clothing in a decade.
For less rent in a newer building in a nicer neighborhood, you could have a dishwasher in Chicago. There is plenty of "big law" thereThe Lsat Airbender wrote: ↑Wed Aug 03, 2022 12:59 pmThis. No in-building machine is actually a superpower because it's social cover to rely exclusively on laundry services.Anonymous User wrote: ↑Wed Aug 03, 2022 12:43 pmAlso, I'd much rather pay $20/week to have someone do my laundry for me. I haven't folded an article of clothing in a decade.
Dishwasher less fun to compromise on although I've done it and it's really not so bad (and I like to cook).