Advice to Anyone Who Wants to Move To NYC- Page 2

[Craig]

Posted: 1/12/09 at 4:16pm

That's a straw man argument. We're not talking about alcohol and no on mentioned that. We're talking about venues which you, yourself said, had the information available already.

Bars haven't had that information available in the back or on pamphlets before - it's apples and oranges.

NYS alone can't get anything out of yogurt to ketchup. Now you're making your argument about something else entirely. Are you mad at the government or bloomberg. I'm starting to lose your focus here...

[Jane2]

Posted: 1/12/09 at 4:16pm

I still say this is town where anything goes.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/12/09 at 4:18pm

I'm not agreeing with Goth (Heavens forbid!) just guessing why he thinks that way. In my experience, the conservative argument usually boils down to "It's the principle of the thing!" or "It's a slippery slope!"

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 1/12/09 at 4:18pm

Did you ever ask yourself why it's only fast food (chain) restaurants that have to do it?

It's any establishment that has 5 or more locations. Not just fast food.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/12/09 at 4:20pm

Yes and the exclusion is to spare mom-n-pop places the expense of calculating calorie counts for their menus. But that would mean that Goth was wrong...yet again....

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/12/09 at 4:21pm

ucjrdud902 deserves to open this thread and get answers to the question he/she asked, not see off topic ramblings. I've made my points clear.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 1/12/09 at 4:23pm

So says the man who brought up corn syrup . . .

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/12/09 at 4:23pm

Good point! OK UCR, be prepared for a lot of right wing old men who can't back up their insane opinions!

[nexttoelectric]

Posted: 1/12/09 at 4:24pm

ucjrdud902 deserves to open this thread and get answers to the question he/she asked, not see off topic ramblings. I've made my points clear.

then you should probably stop posting.


Just go back to clutching your pearls in private.

[ucjrdude902]

Posted: 1/13/09 at 12:10am

Maybe we can get back to the point of the post? Just a thought...

[HOUFlip04]

Posted: 1/13/09 at 5:28pm

Wow...another thread that has nothing to do with the subject line. I'm moving to NYC tomorrow. With this and the insulting asian sterotype thread. This is my official last post.

[somuchtodo]

Posted: 1/13/09 at 5:47pm

Have a place to live before you arrive.
Ditto - a job.
Learn how to use the subway/buses ASAP.
Be frugal. (Actually, until you understand how expensive it can be to live here - be downright cheap.)
Good luck.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 1/13/09 at 5:55pm

That's good advice.

It might be easier/more helpful to answer specific questions, ucjrdude.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/13/09 at 11:13pm

In the past Goth has applauded the eradication of adult businesses in the Times Square area and said it was "scary" before it was Disneyfied. I guess that means he was for the Nanny State until he was against it.

[hermionejuliet]

Posted: 1/14/09 at 9:37pm

So here is my question. Everyone says have a job and place to live before you move. But how does one DO that when one lives no where near NYC?

[nexttoelectric]

Posted: 1/14/09 at 9:40pm

Set up apartment visits and job interviews during a trip prior to the planned move?

Have a friend that lives there look for you.

[Anakela]

Posted: 1/14/09 at 9:58pm

So here is my question. Everyone says have a job and place to live before you move. But how does one DO that when one lives no where near NYC?

I would actually say you should have 2 of the 3 lined up before you move:
- place to live
- job
- cash to live on (ie: at least enough to pay 3-6 months rent).

I moved here with a place to live and cash, but no job lined up; my roommate moved here with a place to live and a job (working at a company that has offices in multiple cities is VERY helpful for this), etc.

Apartment searching 'with' someone who lives out here already is definitely the way to go- my first roommate already lived here (I was living in CA), and so she physically did the apartment searching, but she had my credit info, my share of deposit, etc. for when she found a place for us. (This was someone I'd known for years; I wouldn't suggest doing this with someone found on Craigslist, but ymmv.)

Then 6 months later or so I had a job, I had a feel for the city, for what areas I wanted to live in, for the trains, etc. and so when the time came for me to leave that first apartment (does anyone stay in their first apartment longer than a year?) I was on the other end of the cross-country apartment hunt, and I was the one doing the actual NY apartment hunting, while my future roommate was wrapping up her life and getting ready to move from CA. (Again- roommate = someone I'd known for years.)

[hermionejuliet]

Posted: 1/15/09 at 9:22pm

So would it be feasible to do an extend stay in a furnished apartment while looking for a job?? Or should you just bite the bullet, find an affordable unfurnished apartment and hope for the best?

[Anakela]

Posted: 1/16/09 at 12:26pm

I think that's just a personal preference thing. I moved with no furniture, into a place with no furniture.
Called 1-800-mattress, had a bed delivered the day I arrived in the city, and for the first couple of weeks that bed was *all* the furniture I had- clothes still in suitcases, books in boxes, etc... for me saving money was the most important thing until I found a job, so living with just a bed vs paying more $$ to live in a furnished place was a no brainer, but that same living situation ("you don't even have a *couch*??") could be well outside of someone else's comfort zone.

[cubanpab]

Posted: 1/16/09 at 1:51pm

i would say: dont do it.

its not easy.

[Manny2]

Posted: 1/16/09 at 2:09pm

Oh God, as I was reading this I felt like I was back in logic & rhetoric!

I tried to find a fallacious appeal to something in here, but failed.

Oh, I have one!
Believing that it is easy to move to new york is a fallcious appeal to optimism.

(It really isn't, if you don't have a plan, hold it off for a bit).