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In NY or SF a 300 sq. foot studio would be about $1800/month, at least.

You could get cheaper, but you'd be far away from the actual city (at which point you might as well just live somewhere else).

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What do you consider NYC? $1800 a month can get you a two bedroom in Brooklyn.

Wow, really? I had no idea it was so affordable. My rent is more than double in SF but figured it was a comparable CoL city to NYC/Brooklyn included.

Yes, I have many friends (10ish maybe) who aren't natives but currently live in Brooklyn. Queens is affordable too (you can buy a small house for ~$300,000ish IIRC, I think in Rockaway Beach) but you're very far away from Manhattan. I had another friend who lives in Long Island City (Queens, close to Manhattan) but her rent was high IIRC. I'm unfamiliar with the rent in The Bronx.

However NYC as a whole has high sales and income taxes though. Including City income tax.

Brooklyn is where you live when you move to The City without a lot of money - like for grad school.

Rent is (probably) higher in Park Slope or Williamsburg though which are more "desirable" areas of Brooklyn.

I'm sure natives can chime in.

Living in a borough other than Manhattan is not the same as living "somewhere else", and 1800/month is certainly not the case if you consider all of NYC.

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