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Yes, everyone is NYC is paying $3000/mo in rent...of course we are. Don't move here. It's terrible.

Let's keep that fiction alive so that those of us who have 2-3 roommates and take a 30 minute subway trip each morning can keep our great....$3000/mo rents....to ourselves.

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People having to split small spaces, has the same quality of life impact to most people. There is no misconception of what NYC is, lots of people just don't want the life of either paying a ton of money, or not having what they consider to be a bare minimum amount of space, to not even make more (hell the median salary in NYC is 30K less than Seattle right now!). Being from the east coast, there is little doubt in my mind that NYC is one of the worst deals in the country right now which is correctly reflected in this article. In Seattle: I'm a 10 minute drive, and 20 minute bus commute from my work, and the mortgage on my house + maintenance cost is probably less than or equal to your cost for a portion of an apartment.

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