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Everyone has different priorities. Big cities come with benefits that you have to pay for to enjoy. Different strokes for different folks, you can't really compare the two at just a price point and size. There is so much more.

Their prices are pretty high compared to typical rentals in the same neighborhood. You could get a 1 or maybe 2 bedroom apartment for the same money.

As far as I can tell, this isn't even in a nice part of New York.

It's a working class Caribbean neighborhood right now but was originally built as housing for middle-class Victorian clerics, so there's a lot of beautiful but run down buildings & great transport links (ie. ripe for gentrification).

In the 90s it was extremely rough (race riots), now it's fairly safe and the artisanal coffee shops and trendy restaurants are creeping southwards as the city's population continues to grow & get priced out of other areas.

Guessing a flop house packed with affluent young tech bros is going to throw some gasoline on the Crown Heights hyper-gentrification fire, for better or worse.