Where do you plan to live AFTER college?

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<p>A) Long Islanddd! <3
B) SUNY Oneonta
C) Long Island, Georgia, California, or maybe Connecticut…but there has to be a beach nearby!! I will never live in the middle of the country…</p>

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<p>question for Californians: is it more expensive than NY? because I’m from NY and go to college in NYC, and lots of students live in apartments/studio’s and split rent, and young professionals in their twenties living here is common. Is SoCal/LA really that expensive? I figured NY would be more expensive since land is more limited.</p>

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<p>the whole state is expensive!
its the second* most expensive state after NY.
forclosures are high here also! :)</p>

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<p>About the same. My brother lives in Brooklyn and it’s affordable, but i don’t know if you mean New York City or New York state. The thing is socal, obviously, has TONS of affordable housing from ghettos to small apartments, since “southern california” encompasses, like, an entire state basically. It’s not analogous to a particular city.</p>

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<p>Yeah I meant NYC, there are plenty of affordable places for people in their twenties, if not Manhattan than an outer borough like Brooklyn is nice. People are making it sound like it’s crazy for a young professional to want to live in SoCal, although I think LA was brought up specifically. Both coasts are pretty expensive, but worth it imo. I’d rather be middle-class and happy in NY than upper-class and unhappy in Montana personally. :)</p>

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<p>I think it depends what part of NYC. If you’re talking Manhattan, there’s a 40x salary renting rule that applies to a lot of places (I don’t know if it’s everywhere, I doubt so…in fact, I’m pretty positive it doesn’t) that says your annual salary must meet or exceed your monthly rent by forty times.</p>

<p>I think studios start at $2,000/month give or take.</p>

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<p>NYC’s city living probably costs a little more, but not by a large margin. I presume they’re both rip offs in comparison to many other cities, but LA or NYC is where it’s at if you’re planet earth of course.</p>

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<p>I want to live in Hawai’i. :3</p>

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<p>I don’t know, Montana might be kind of cool…maybe, I guess… okay, not really.</p>

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<p>You must have a nice place Platts…i imagine it’s a lot nicer than the dorms most Fordham students are living in :)</p>

<p>I feel like I’m mooching off my boyfriend’s parents. I moved into his East Village apartment midyear but didn’t have to pay rent since his parents pre-paid. I have a job and pay for food/utilities/bills but it’s awkward since we split everything, and his daddy covers it for him and naturally ends up covering for some of my stuff by extension. Next semester I want a studio since I can’t afford to split rent 50/50 on his apartment, whereas he wants me to mooch off his parents some more lol. I lived at home 1st semester and commuted, but then he asked me to move in to make things easier on both of us. Brooklyn is not a bad option, rent’s cheaper there.</p>

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<p>It’s not that great. I have pictures of my old apartment. Give me five to dig them up.</p>

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<p>It’s tiny, just over 600 sq ft.</p>

<p>But I’m moving at the end of the week and happily so (I hate my neighbors…I think I said that already.) to a place four times the size.</p>

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<p>A] Kansas City
B] University of Kansas
C] NYC or DC</p>

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<p>I’m still a senior in high school, but would any of those places be out of the question for someone looking to go into teaching?</p>

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<p>haha molly, i’m totally mooching off my boyfriend, too. i’m living rent free in his place until august and then we’re getting a place together, but it’ll probably be 600-700/month for us to split a one bedroom (holla, washington heights, except for the a train that never runs past 168 on weekends).</p>

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<p>nyc public school teacher salaries start at about 40K a year, more if you’ve completed your masters. if you’re interested in coming out here i’d try to get into teach for america or the nyc teaching fellows, since you can start out of undergrad and they’ll subsidize your masters. my boyfriend is a teacher and it’s stressful as haleeeee but really rewarding, and he does fine money-wise.</p>

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<ol>
<li>The infamous Mississippi Delta.</li>
<li>Rhodes College, Memphis</li>
<li>Atlanta, D.C., somewhere doing something meaningful…</li>
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<p>The question is, are you paying attention to the news?</p>

<p>Sure, a $500,000 house may now be $350,000. However, you now need something like a 10% down payment, which actually excludes more people.</p>

<p>That doesn’t concern us though, as most of us will probably be renting, and rightfully so. That said, rents have not declined, and have actually stayed flat or increased slightly. Nothing under $800/month in California, unless you can go w/o AC in some area where you need an AC, and do not mind having your apartment broken into. I honestly do not understand how all these illegal immigrants survive here, except for having like 5 people living in a one bedroom apartment. By doing that, they just enable the exploitation and make it worse for everyone else.</p>

<p>Today’s California (and I assume today’s NY), are not your father’s CA or NY.</p>

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<p>I live in SoCal, and honestly, its not that great, except for the weather.</p>

<p>$70k-$100k by 25? Ha, somebody needs a reality check! I think the median salary for a college grad after 10 years is like $60k.</p>

<p>I don’t know whats worse: being delusional until reality hits the fan, or being utterly depressed, devoid of joy, and miserable when considering the concept of the future?</p>

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<p>Damn! You guys are paying a lot for rent!</p>

<p>Here in Akron I’m paying $630/month($315, between my roommate and I) for an 830 sq. ft 1 bedroom. It may not be Manhattan or Socal, but the neighborhood I’m in is pretty cool. We have a pretty active punk rock scene. A lot of poor artists and hippies(or so they like to think). </p>

<p>Regardless, I like where I’m at, I’m around down to earth people, and I’m not paying a fortune to live.</p>

<p>A win win, right?</p>