I just found a $750/month one bedroom apartment in Brooklyn

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

http://www.apartments.com/370-amboy-st-brooklyn-ny/flv3xes

Oh my God. I'm seriously considering trying to get a plane ticket and nab this now.

[Vega]

Looked it up on Zillow and it doesn't have such a great outside view. It must have been the scene of a murder though for it to be that low from the looks of the inside.

[Santander]

Those are just the exterior pictures... the actual apartment is inside the cupboard.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Rape.
Murder.
Shooting/Stabbing.
Shooting/Stabbing.
Shooting/Stabbing.
Felony Assault.

All this month within a single digit block radius.

[Wells]

Lol upstate I have a two bedroom apartment for half that price.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Rape.
Murder.
Shooting/Stabbing.
Shooting/Stabbing.
Shooting/Stabbing.
Felony Assault.

All this month within a single block radius.

It's NYC. Putting up with that is more than worth it to be able to live there.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Seriously I don't give a  if the crime rate resembled Mogadishu if it still meant being able to live in NEW YORK CITY.

[Thunderbird is the word]

NYC isn't made for creative bohemian types anymore. Take it from someone who knows. I say that as someone who was born in the city and lived there for eight years. It ain't what it used to be. Your better off staying in Minnesota.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

New York is nice, but I don't know if I could live in 80% of it including most of the upscale parts of Manhattan. I'm sure you could find several for this price in the other boroughs too. I don't see the point of it when you'll be absolutely nowhere near the shows you so desire to see - very, very long trip on the ACE line (not to mention the extraordinary transit expenses in NYC). Anywhere in Minneapolis is much more worth it than this option.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

New York is nice, but I don't know if I could live in 80% of it including most of the upscale parts of Manhattan. I'm sure you could find several for this price in the other boroughs too. I don't see the point of it when you'll be absolutely nowhere near the shows you so desire to see - very, very long trip on the ACE line (not to mention the extraordinary transit expenses in NYC). Anywhere in Minneapolis is much more worth it than this option.

A funny thing happened to me tonight. After Kentucky reported we still had an hour to go until Oregon closed, so I decided to go take a walk, play Ingress, and buy some supplies at CVS. A very fitting store for me because: 1-I actually work for the CVS corporate now and 2-It's illegal back in North Dakota. So is Walgreen's and pharmacies in Target and Wal-Mart by the way. Anyway after I left CVS I walked across the street to another Ingress portal and walked by a cafe. I saw some guys in band shirts...and then a guy I recognized. I walked up to him and said hey. Turns out there was a show going on right now. And I didn't even know about it! But this place was under new ownership and they were booking shows now. Awesome! And I told him it's only five blocks away! So I looked up on their website for future shows.

and it turns out one of my favorite bands in college was playing some reunion shows! Two of them, one on the Friday before Memorial Day and the Sunday. The Friday one was sold out already...but not the Sunday! So I instantly logged in on my phone to the ticket seller and got one. One of my favorite band from college, playing in a less than 10 minute walk from my apartment.

And there's a good chance I wouldn't have even known about it if it wasn't for that gap in reporting time between Kentucky and Oregon.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Uncle Leo?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Also in regards to high crime neighborhoods, to quote a girl from my church in a video she made:

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[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Ugh, Christians, am I right?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Ugh, Christians, am I right?

Um, aren't you a Christian?

[RFayette]

Ugh, Christians, am I right?

Um, aren't you a Christian?

sMilo probably thinks of Catholics and Protestants as very, very separate (though I've only heard of Protestant and Christian being synonymous in the Spanish language).

Anyway, congrats if you do get the apartment.  Have fun in NY if you do move there.

[Santander]

I've lived in UES and Bergen County and I'd rather live in NJ over Manhattan any day. As for Brooklyn... forget about it!

[Asian Nazi]

Rape.
Murder.
Shooting/Stabbing.
Shooting/Stabbing.
Shooting/Stabbing.
Felony Assault.

All this month within a single digit block radius.

Please move to this apartment, brtd.

[YaBoyNY]

I've lived in UES and Bergen County and I'd rather live in NJ over Manhattan any day. As for Brooklyn... forget about it!

New Jersey is absolutely atrocious and is by far the worst state in the Northeast.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

I've lived in UES and Bergen County and I'd rather live in NJ over Manhattan any day. As for Brooklyn... forget about it!

New Jersey is absolutely atrocious and is by far the worst state in the Northeast.

> Not Delaware

[Figueira]

Ugh, Christians, am I right?

Um, aren't you a Christian?

sMilo probably thinks of Catholics and Protestants as very, very separate (though I've only heard of Protestant and Christian being synonymous in the Spanish language).

Anyway, congrats if you do get the apartment.  Have fun in NY if you do move there.

I've heard it in English.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Also in regards to high crime neighborhoods, to quote a girl from my church in a video she made:

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Like a good saviour, Jesus is there!

[YaBoyNY]

I've lived in UES and Bergen County and I'd rather live in NJ over Manhattan any day. As for Brooklyn... forget about it!

New Jersey is absolutely atrocious and is by far the worst state in the Northeast.

> Not Delaware

I was going by the census definition, but if we're including Maryland and Delaware then yeah, Delaware barely ekes out first place.

[Torie]

When I read this thread, I said to myself, hey it must be the East New York hood. It turns out it isn't, but it's the next "best" thing, right next door. The area is probably in the process of beginning to gentry if I had to guess (perhaps given the location more by orthodox Jews than gays or yuppies). The key is how close the block is to a subway stop. Brooklyn by the way has now surpassed San Francisco as having the highest ratio of housing prices (the numerator) to income levels (the denominator), in the nation. Hudson, by the way, has some $750 apartments. My basement (about 550 square feet maybe) will probably go for around that, maybe a tad less, when I get it refurbished.  

In Hudson of course, it's gays who are driving the gentrification. On my block, of about the 10 properties now that have been fixed up since I started, about two thirds are owned by gays. The referendum committee that I am on, is almost all gay. And the city is now run by woman. Below are the mayor, the treasurer, the assessor, and the city clerk. Too bad the common council president was elsewhere in the room, or she would have been in the snap too. I see them all frequently of course, yammering about something. The mayor joked that probably I should be given a desk in city hall. In any event, straight white males are sort of an "abused and powerless" minority in Hudson. We are just so cutting edge. We are the future!  



God, I am getting good, at diverting all topics to Hudson, but then all roads lead to Hudson, so why not?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

^^^^^^^^^^^

Reported for trolling.

[Santander]

I've lived in UES and Bergen County and I'd rather live in NJ over Manhattan any day. As for Brooklyn... forget about it!

New Jersey is absolutely atrocious and is by far the worst best state in the Northeast.