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<li>I refuse to budget around my marijuana habit. If necessary, I will stop smoking. </li>
<li>I intend to live in the dorms for my freshman year for social networking purposes. After however I would like to live cheaper.</li>
<li>Could someone expand on cheap living near NYU (this includes cheap groceries [preferrably healthy or fresh food], housing, etc.)</li>
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<p>Thnx</p>
<p>^^^ Ah, I see. I didn’t even notice is username.
I actually thought “brown” was some new slang for weed that I’d never heard of or something, haha.</p>
<p>^Cheapest areas in Manhattan are going to be Lower East Side, Gramercy, Murray Hill, Morningside Heights and Harlem (at least in my opinion. These aren’t written in stone or anything. Some people may disagree.)
For fresh food, as I mentioned earlier, I use Fresh Direct. They cost around the same ballpark as Whole Foods and isn’t really inexpensive (actually, it borders on overpriced but I don’t spend much on food anyway, so to me, it’s not outrageous or anything) but the quality of their fresh food and produce is very, very good.
Their customer service is also awesome. I’ve never had a bad experience with them (knock on wood).</p>
<p>avoid The Upper East side apartments go up to the millions and SoHo nice place but expensive. A great but cheap place to live is Brooklyn it’s right next to Manhattan and a ride on the train to school can be from 10 minutes to an hour depending which part you live in. Have you tried calling NYU and asking them some off campus places that a student can live. Or you can get a nice apartment with a roommate.</p>
<p>It sucks. Housing is a good deal if you can get the more desirable dorms in Union Square and don’t get stuck in Chinatown.</p>
<p>I spend about $1k a month.</p>
<p>For groceries, Trader Joe’s has cheap food when they’re not out of everything. Avoid Food Emporium like the plague. There’s a reason that Whole Paycheck and Trader Joe’s are busting at the seams while the Food Emporium looks abandoned (we have all 3 on union square). For food it goes TJ’s=reasonable, Whole Paycheck=expensive, and Food Emporium=absurd.</p>
<p>As for rent, try the off campus housing registry. You should be able to get something decent for about $1,500.</p>
<p>get a decent quality vaporizer.</p>
<p>seriously. it pays itself off after barely a month just from how much less you have to use, and saves you soooo much afterwards. plus you get to use it indoors.</p>
<p>oh, and you can buy online from california. will likely beat prices in manhattan.</p>