It’s Over… NYC Isn’t Recovering
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2022
- New York is a great city, but its facing truly great challenges and it’s recovery and future are in doubt. Its getting harder and harder for normal people to live here, to go to restaurants, shops, and that trend is only increasing.
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That line of people waiting for a bagel blew me away. The logic of paying exorbitant rates to live close to work (to save time) but still willing to spend an hour of your day waiting in a line for a bagel. Fascinating.
These are people who probably already have money and are just looking to consume and hike everything up around them.
you're telling me you wouldn't wait in line for something you really want to do or have?
@@superu8919 With plenty of competition a few steps away, I will not.
@@superu8919 it’s a bagel
Ikr....a bagel. I pop my Kroger blueberry bagel in the toaster and butter it once toasty. Lolol.never had a mouth watering bagel that was worth waiting an hr or more for
I moved out in 2016 after 26 years. I looked around and saw clueless young people with ridiculously high salaries and resources looking cool and boring. A vibrant city has people of all kinds in it, not just lawyers and tech startup kids. It's a dead scene. I couldn't make it on $75,000 a year, and there was no reason to try.
It's insane how much it costs to live in big cities now a days.
No place for artists and musicians and writers.
Where did you land?
my thoughts exactly, I took trips to New York and Paris and both cities were at their most beautiful when you go outside and start seeing average joes living life, and I took photos and it amazed me the way I felt seeing them rather than going to Manhattan and every single person is some sort of model or influencer
outside the main borough, Manhattan and main arrondissement of Paris*
I spent many of my 20's and 30's almost being homeless and living with my dysfunctional family because I thought that was normal until I realized that outside of NYC I can work a retail job and afford an apartment and have more freedom. When I think of all the women I could have dated and all the fun I could have had that was flushed down the toilet because of the overpriced city it angers me. Try having a love life when you work full time, living with your crazy mother and still cant afford to treat someone to dinner (what a nightmare!). On the bright side I got out of the rat race and moved out. It's just sad how many people are still struggling like I did and wasting their valuable time. There is so much nature and beauty and opportunity outside of nyc. Places where hard work really does pay off.
Congrats for finding a better life for you. "Live With No Fear"
They will never leave. I moved out of NY in 2015 and some family members who came to visit ended up staying when they saw how much more you get for your money outside of NY. Others will never leave because they like the stress and rat race that is living in NY. They get bored with easy living.i couldn't believe it but it's true. Don't feel sorry for ppl paying $4000.00 for 400sqft. They love it.
Thats the goal of disenfranchisement and generational plunder my friend. To screw over as many young people as possible making them dependent on "the company store" and edging out any competition to the chosen few. I hope you're good at math and can get a job in medical, law, or engineering/programming because everything else is shipped off to 3rd world slave labor.
The vid didn't wake people up, raising prices won't wake people up, and the epidemic of broken homes will keep people demoralized. Game's over. Get enough money, become self sufficient and get out of the cities.
@@ctisable it does get boring outside of the major city that's why the internet and smartphones are for to keep you occupied.
Isn't dating harder in smaller less vibrant cities?
I left NYC 20 years ago to move to Europe and looking back, that was the best decision EVER! Here in Vienna I live in a large, modern apartment (the building is only 1 year old), with ultra-efficient heat pump floor heating, for less than $700 a month. My heating bill last winter was about $7 a month thanks to the heat pump. I could NEVER afford an apartment like this in Manhattan, and lately I've been hearing that you have to earn FORTY TIMES your rent just to get a lease. That's INSANE!! I really pity my friends back home. Here in Vienna I have universal health care, 5 weeks of paid vacation, unlimited sick leave, unlimited unemployment benefits, I can even take a sabbatical year off from work - with FULL PAY. For the life of me, I can't imagine what they'd have to pay to get me to go back and live in NY!
Curious what line of work you're in.
But expats pay a lot more US taxes
@@Jim-Mc Trust me, nothing special. A complete bore!
@@stevierichiemoeller Where did you hear that? You'd have to earn A LOT of money (> 100k) in order to pay US taxes if you're living abroad. Furthermore, the US has tax treaties with many countries to avoid double taxation. Tip: You won't be earning half as much in Europe as you do in the US, however you don't need to earn as much in Europe to have a higher standard of living than in the US. For example the average monthly salary here in Austria is only $1,500 to $2000 after taxes, however that's enough to give you a comfy lifestyle plus you get your minimum 5 weeks vacation, universal health insurance, unlimited unemployment benefits, retirement, accident insurance, etc. You'd need to earn at least twice as much to get similar benefits in the US.
As a general rule things are smaller, simpler and more modest in Europe, but that often means life is also less complicated. Your apartment/house will be smaller, your car will be smaller, you'll probably also eat less but you won't be paying half as much for things like insurance. You'll also consume a lot less and your life in general will be far more simplified. For example, because you have a smaller fridge, you end up going to the supermarket every 2 or 3 days. But that means your meals are a lot fresher and that you have to spend a lot more time preparing them, which means you eat more healthy foods but less junk foods. Back in NY I only went to the supermarket once a week, which meant a lot of TV dinners and ready to eat meals with lots of chemicals, etc.
I've advised all my friends back home to move to Europe if they can. Two of them have moved to Germany so far and they're loving it. One of them got really sick not too long ago and actually needed a kidney transplant. After experiencing European socialized medicine he was so impressed that he decided to make Germany his permanent home. He couldn't believe the high level and quality of care he got in Germany, and he didn't have to pay a dime for anything. You'd have to have very expensive private insurance to get similar care back in the US.
For anyone thinking of moving to Europe, I've heard really good things about Portugal lately. Their government even has a special resident permit just for American ex-pats which greatly simplifies the process of moving to Portugal. They also give you a bunch of tax breaks and incentives to stay in Portugal. So far, a lot of Americans are loving it there.
I would move to Europe if I could (my dad was born in Britain and could get citizenship if he wanted) but since the UK left the EU, I wouldn't be able to live and work in Spain sadly.
Im from florida went there years ago first time since I was a kid and an older lady saw me standing near the tracks on my phone and pulled me to a seat she told me to never stand that close to the tracks I'm thankful for her every day because I saw not even a few mins later a man trying to push people off the platform 🙏🏿
@Tess Stickels yep was very scary for me
Have you been to Miami??? The violent crime rate there is twice that of NYC -- no lie! Don't be fooled by Cash's click-bait videos. Go do your own research and stop relying upon anecdotal references. I'm not saying NYC is the safest in the US, but it surely is not the most dangerous. The fact that Cash signed a new lease, and his wife is pregnant, should tell you something. Why do you think he's still here???
So weird that the criminals now wear UNIFORMS.
I just visited there with my wife and kids and I admit I left them alone a few times to look at the screens to find out which subway we needed to be on. Always lost 😂. But I thought about that happening to my family and my stomach literally started going turning. 😭. I am glad you are ok.
@@BusterMSC1 I'm also glad you and your family are ok too I went alone and was very young and naive would not recommend lol
You have really captured well the post-apocalyptic feel of 2022 NYC. I worked for years right near the office building on Third Ave that you showed. Amazing how desolate it has become. I work remotely now like everyone else but I do miss the social aspects of office life. One or two days a week would be plenty. They really should start converting some of those office buildings into apartments, that really seems like it would solve some issues.
Honestly i wouldn't be surprised if an eventual solution they end up doing would be to pursue that option. I have a feeling remote work is more or less here to stay and, you have to admit it is an attractive concept for a company in terms of cost cutting and things like internet service and even company machines and setups and its probably going to catch on more not less as things become more expensive
Making the offices into living space is a great idea. Then the Governors of the Border states can ship to NYC all the illegal aliens the Biden Ass-ministration is allowing to enter the US. The rich Democrats of Martha's Vineyard seem to not want them because maybe they are the wrong color or something....
Even if they convert them into apartments, they would still be to expensive for the average person to afford.
@@annademo it sounds from this end like you're the one who doesn't want them, whiny repub.
@@henrybran8904 It wasn't my side of the aisle that had them rounded up by the military and taken to an abandoned military base for "holding" - it was the Democrats of Martha's Vineyard. Obama could have put up a couple large tents on his front lawn and sheltered and fed all 50 of them.
I'm a native New Yorker who left at 28.
I'm in my fifties now and whenever I visit my hometown I can't believe how I use to think living like this was normal. 🤣
But at least regular people with regular jobs could afford apts somewhere in the city in the 80s and 90s. Now it's predatory.
Yes. I left at 30. I had no idea how crazy it was to live in such a small place at high prices. I shared a 2 bedroom place that was $800. Can’t imagine what that rents for now.
@@LilyGazou You dont wanna know 😅
In the late 70's I was working in market research and hopped over to NYC by bus for an interview with a major ad agency on 1st Avenue. I lived in a suburb in Jersey 7 miles from the Lincoln Tunnel. It took me 1.5 hours to get there ...and the same time to get back. Figuring the commuting costs, tough trip, and the fact I would have had to take a pay cut for the honor of being crammed into a tiny office high in the sky, I decided it wasn't worth it and declined the job. That was my last attempt at working in the city.
I lived in NYC for one year in 2017 and loved it but yes... the rent and cost of living is so high. I wondered what so many people did for work and how they paid for everything. They should convert office buildings to apartments or at least half the building for hybrid work. It would be pretty cool to live and work in the same building. Especially for those starting their career.
That's a great idea and all but NYC sucks and I won't be moving in even if you paid my rent
@@TheAnnoyingBoss I don’t think anyone would pay to have you around lol
I bet most don't. I would love to see how much debt those that did live here had at the time. I bet it would be eye watering
You're a quitter. You should have stayed and worked the problem.
I wouldn’t mind working and living in the same building.
Stand with your back against the wall on the subway platform. Don't look at your phone. It can wait. Look around you and stay alert.
@justine1776 You always need to be aware of your surroundings. If you're engrossed in your phone, you won't be.
Better yet, leave the city.
Don’t stand near the yellow line. When I take the subway to Boston I always stand back and my phone goes in my pocket cuz ppl will snatch it and run.
Haven't lived in New York for so long, that subway shot brought back so many smells...
I owned a small bakery in midtown for over a decade. I had planned on basically retiring in the city. Right before I extended another long-term lease, covid and lock downs came. Since we were situated at the bottom of an office building, 90% of our customer base was built in. Even on a Monday morning, we met our sales goal by 8:30 am. I wasn't "rich" but had an awesome rent controlled apartment around the corner on 9th Ave in the heart of Hells Kitchen and money to live a bit of the lifestyle. I worked most of the time, but I loved what I was doing. I had friends and family staying all the time. It was nice they could walk around Times Square, Theater District at all hours of the night. I was part of the neighborhood & the community and met some of the kindest, most interesting, lovable people ever. I will always have mixed reactions to the lockdowns. It all was handled horribly. The need to keep people healthy and safe had to balance with allowing employment and businesses to survive. Politics and greed ruined it all. I tried to keep going for almost 2 years. I finally had to shut down for good. When I say it ruined my life, that is an understatement. Both my folks were diagnosed with cancer, so I moved back to PA to help them. There was no work in the city for an unemployed bakery owner anyway. I am slowly starting over, opening something here local. My parents are doing well and so far so good. Every now and again, I look at some NYC videos and remember my fabulous, humble, never a dull moment life in the city. I miss it dearly. The multicultural atmosphere, languages, food, people, it's like no place in the world. Thanks for making this video. It allows me to sleep a little better knowing I did the right thing. Regardless, I had no choice. Lol. I will visit some day, but I know I will be too told to ever start over there again. Enjoying time with my family convinces me all is good with the world, though. I just wish I could hear a little Spanish at the market, or order Thai food at 4am, or volunteer for the woman's shelter on the block, cooking lunch for my employees, or making cakes for Broadway shows. Take care, NYC.
Never give up!
I’m born and raised in Manhattan, but left at 20 yrs old. The rents are insane now. This was so depressing to watch. Living there was never this difficult. I’m so grateful I moved upstate decades ago.
you should ahve bought a place back then ;)
That's because of Richard Nixon's deregulation in 1972 , My cousin Mary Jennifer Staudohar A real estate Broker and mogel made million's because of that ,
I always felt safe in Manhattan not anymore, I was born and raised in Carroll Gardens/Red Hook.
But if rents are this high it means that there's high demand, no? Like people are actually renting out those places, otherwise the prices would crash...
@@deniseg812 Zeldin said he'll fire Bragg and suspend No cash bail on day one. If that doesn't happen get ready for things to get even worse. I remember when Giuliani turned things around and saved the City but that was because democrats voted for him too. Any chance that'll happen now?
When I was a teenager in the 80s and would go into NYC from the island, it was considered expensive to live and eat there, too. The crime was very high - my parents hated when we would ask to take the train in on a weekend day to shop in the village. I remember my mom would give us cab money, because she did not want us down in the subway, at all. Also, back then, the city didn't look as clean and gentrified as it does now. The subways there now look beautiful and modern - back in the 80s they were dirty and graffiti all over the place. I think the goal since the late 80s has been to run everyone out who doesn't make a lot of money so it is just for the upper class and above. The only thing I don't know is who will work at all the service jobs. We live in scary/interesting times.
Robots 🤖
@@Sabrin_Elan yes thats all we hear ..always the 80s bullshyt ..we are 30 trillion dollars in debt weed is legal and and fentanyl is all over the place ..there are more drugs out here worse than the 80's ...believe me im out here all my life ..today will be worse than the 80's by far because there is another generation hearing the stupid stories of the 80's and now wanna outdo morons of the 80s that got away with shyt back then too
You probably remember the squeegee men.
That is the question everywhere
immigrants
As a native I worked in Manhattan on Lexington Ave during the 90’s. I lived in Brooklyn or Queens during those years. To us young working commuters, “the city” as we called Manhattan was for the rich. We couldn’t afford to do much there. I moved to the south 2 weeks before 9/11 and it was the best decision I ever made.
I lived there from 2009-2012 and am simultaneously heartbroken and relieved I left. It was an experience like no other, but rents back then were high. I can't imagine trying to find a place there now. It will be, if not already, a playground for the ultra rich and an open air mental ward for those who aren't mega rich.
New York is a perfect example of what happens when you let the patients run the asylum. I'm from a major east coast city and had to move to the burbs. I'm still angry I had to leave my beloved city.
Philly
You know u left because u just can not afford it!!! Period
You're the first person to complain about moving to the suburbs. The cities are too hustle and bustle. Everyone is in a rush as if that office job will disappear if they arrive at 9:05 AM or if they do it remotely.
What defines NYC isn't the office towers with wasteful space, that was made obsolete by modern technology. It's the theater scene, the parks, the concert halls, sports arenas, convention halls, and whatnot. It's the culture that draws people in and why rents are increasing again.
Always love going to NYC for Central Park. Have been checking other city region parks out beyond what I have on Long Island. I like how vibrant Central Park is year round the most though. It's never dull or drab, full of life, and very safe.
@@enlightenfitness If you'd like to get shot or stabbed and enjoy a city where everyone hates everyone else. Always wanted to be NYC, never will be NYC.
Much better without you weaklings.
Thank you 4 speaking on this! Real NYers don't make 100gs a year, most barely make in the 50s. It's insane
I mean he was really only speaking downtown right? The other buroughs are still okayish
@@lucadreier22 okayish HOW?!? Price wise? Sure. Does anyone really want to live there? Will you make it out alive?
Your right the entire city is falling apart. There’s about a dozen homeless people on every block. People literally shooting up needles and getting high on every block! It’s so disgusting..
I literally don’t see that in NYC. SF only
I was in NYC in the 80s when it was really scary. What’s going on now is nothing compared to what went on in the past
Grew up in NYC so was there for the late '70s/early '80s. Muggings, chain snatchings, graffiti and garbage covering every surface of the subway and trains, taking off my rings and putting them in my pocket before going into the subway, walking around the homeless guys laying over the subway grates while on my way to work. We didn't have cell phones so we were actually aware of, and paying attention to, our surroundings and who was around us. Constantly. And we knew what areas to avoid.
According to the historical crime data from the NYPD, there is still 80% less crime happening than there was 20 years ago. And, murders are actually down from last year. Biggest crime category right now is theft.
@@Prosey I think you missed the part where Cash mentioned that crime stats are currently not being reported to the federal government by NYPD. Additionally, the NYPD was fully staffed back in the day. Now they are short a lot of personnel, which means longer response times and ultimately, people give up and stop dialing 911. A lot of crime isn't even being called in. We have the same problem here in the SF bay area. People will say, "but look at crime stats from the 90s, there was a lot more crime then!" Not true. We just had a more functional society, with fully staffed police departments, higher standards, properly compiled and reported statistics, and everyone called 911 when they needed law enforcement. Not now.
@@bryans.1710 no. The point is that there is a lot of hyperbole around the current rise in crime that is being driven by social media and certain politicians. Some crimes in the city, like murder, assaults and shootings are actually down from last year, but some politicians and media wont publicize that because it doesn’t help them. It is not the armageddon that some are making it out to be. All historical and current crime data can be viewed on the NYPD website.
@@denverdubois5835 I posted the link to the NYPD’s website listing current and historical crime data for NYC. If you want to say the NYPD is lying on its website, go ahead. As far as crimes not being reported, that’s always been the case.
High rent city apartments FEEDS THE BEAST SYSTEM while you are a slave
to paying high rents that feeds and empower companies like Black Rock,
Zillow, Black Stone, Vanguard etc... all of whom are owners of New York
City rental real estate just look it up it will shock you the real estate they own
or run in New York City and the money they are making off NYC real estate
it has empowered them empowers to BUY UP AMERICAN FAMILY HOMES
then they turn these family homes into high rentals home and or sell them
for twice the price of the actual value. This is creating the explosion of millions
of homeless Americans across America. Black Rock, Zillow, Vanguard, Black
Stone are also buying up American farmlands and reselling the farms to
GMO food corporations and or to countries like China. Black Rock, Zillow,
Vanguard, Black Stone are all behind the World Economic Forum and the
World Health Organization and it's top advisor to the World Economic
Forum is doctor Yuval Noah Harari from Israel who in his speeches has
said that humans are HACKABLE ANIMALS. Harari went on to further say
" free will is over " and went on to say at the World Economic Forum meetings
and in interviews that " humans will belong to a new regime collective of
surveillance taken from under your skin, look it up these videos will shock
you. Don't give these monster your money to empower them to destroy
your very being, way of life and take away your freedoms and your free will
to control you so you do as they say, " YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND BE
HAPPY EATING BUGS and pay ASTRONOMICAL HIGH RENTS never able to
save to buy your own home, mean while they the " CHOSEN ONES " are
living in huge mansions eating steaks and flying in privet jets and owning
farms to eat organic vegetables while they are destroying your food sources
right now to starve you to eat bugs that are not really good for you look
up chitin and gluten in bugs. The Agenda of the chosen ones is to take
all important assets for their greedy selves of the planet while the others
can go to hell. So renters beware where your money is really going to THE
BEAST SYSTEM.
I hope NY can adjust. It’s terrible that native New Yorkers are being priced out of their homes. I have to say, though, that on a recent trip with my daughter, we noticed the streets and (most of) the subway stairwells were surprisingly clean. The mood was happy. We had zero bad experiences using the metro, but I did notice that most riders were between the ages of 20 and 40. I was on the old side, and my daughter on the young side. More often than not, people would offer us their seats and allow us to exit first. Much more pleasant than my experiences on trains in Chicago, Washington D.C, and Paris.
Part of me wants a massive correction but I’m afraid what that actually means. It would have to get 2, 3 times as bad as it is now… like 80s 90s level crime for the rich to abandon ship.
You were lucky ….
DEMOCRATS 🤢🤮!
Democrats destroyed it
Just don't vote Democrat
Finally someone telling the truth about what’s happening in NYC
After year of him sugar coating it
Worked and lived in NYC from 2016-19 and wouldn’t trade it. Best time ever and made friends for life. Hope the city bounces back
This is happening in Toronto too - especially on our public transit, recently a young girl got acid thrown on her and succumbed to her injuries, a lot of people have been literally pushed on the tracks and there are thieves and junkies that get on free because the drivers don't want to confront them and leave passengers to defend themselves and are city buildings are empty and there is just a feeling of grime and decay as well as actual grime and decay
That’s because the illegals that Democrats are allowing into our country or from some of the lowest scummy places on earth. They love evil and they are bringing it with them
🐒+✡=💀📉💸😥🔥
Sad ! I thought Canada was safer than the US
@@MrTerdherder It was, until they started letting in unvetted masses of fake refugees and job migrants and terrorists in order to virtue signal to the world what a wonderful tolerant society they are. Then they started having incidents of Tunisians living off welfare and throwing acid in girls' faces.
@Jamel Carpenter The Japanese metro is safe because it's not filled with blacks.
Changing careers is also extremely hard in NYC. I had to move south so I could afford to do it. Its paying off. I actually work for a very big company now at an entry level position and I actually love my job! Maybe next year will be the year I move back home. If anyone from NYC is reading this, get uncomfortable! Create a plan and execute that plan. Eventually, you will meet your goals!
But the thing is, you had to move to the south, and that's something many of us will never EVER tolerate. Sure it's shitty in quite a few of these big cities right now, but these things always go in cycles. Someday things will get better.
@@randolphscott1673 but yet you New Yorkers will tolerate absurd rents and out-,of control crime. Maybe you need to re-evaluate what you tolerate.
Once out at these increases unless you're up there, you'll never be able to afford to move back in. Gentrification is real. Keeping the little guy out is real!
@@randolphscott1673 go in cycles?? Wtf??? I been here all my life and cant take it nomore. Skyrocketed rents, crime wave cause most voted in dumbbb politicians. Standard of living dropped, all i see here are illegals. Im leaving soon enjoy your cycle bs
High rent city apartments FEEDS THE BEAST SYSTEM while you are a slave
to paying high rents that feeds and empower companies like Black Rock,
Zillow, Black Stone, Vanguard etc... all of whom are owners of New York
City rental real estate just look it up it will shock you the real estate they own
or run in New York City and the money they are making off NYC real estate
it has empowered them empowers to BUY UP AMERICAN FAMILY HOMES
then they turn these family homes into high rentals home and or sell them
for twice the price of the actual value. This is creating the explosion of millions
of homeless Americans across America. Black Rock, Zillow, Vanguard, Black
Stone are also buying up American farmlands and reselling the farms to
GMO food corporations and or to countries like China. Black Rock, Zillow,
Vanguard, Black Stone are all behind the World Economic Forum and the
World Health Organization and it's top advisor to the World Economic
Forum is doctor Yuval Noah Harari from Israel who in his speeches has
said that humans are HACKABLE ANIMALS. Harari went on to further say
" free will is over " and went on to say at the World Economic Forum meetings
and in interviews that " humans will belong to a new regime collective of
surveillance taken from under your skin, look it up these videos will shock
you. Don't give these monster your money to empower them to destroy
your very being, way of life and take away your freedoms and your free will
to control you so you do as they say, " YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND BE
HAPPY EATING BUGS and pay ASTRONOMICAL HIGH RENTS never able to
save to buy your own home, mean while they the " CHOSEN ONES " are
living in huge mansions eating steaks and flying in privet jets and owning
farms to eat organic vegetables while they are destroying your food sources
right now to starve you to eat bugs that are not really good for you look
up chitin and gluten in bugs. The Agenda of the chosen ones is to take
all important assets for their greedy selves of the planet while the others
can go to hell. So renters beware where your money is really going to THE
BEAST SYSTEM.
I miss NYC but I never liked how hard it is to live comfortably there, no matter how hard you work. Essential workers are a perfect example. They keep NYC running (especially when NYC was the epicenter of coronavirus) and it seems like they're always getting the short end of the stick. They work so hard just to be able to make rent and feed their families and do it all over again everyday. Just to be told they don't make enough to live in a nicer (and in some cases safer) neighborhood. I mean, everyone's different..some people are living comfortably in NYC and they deserve it 100%. But I wish that the city would make housing more accessible and affordable for the..99%
''People can't start their lives here''. But they can sure end them.
This sad situation is mostly all over the U.S.- Rents keep going up but ppl can't afford it. 😢
Maybe that's why crime is going up as well. They rob peter to pay paul, their landlords. It's a vicious vicious circle or as they say in NYC "soicle"
This will only stop when more and more people just stop renting. Either they'll pool resources with friends and buy, move back in with family, or go homeless--hopefully "nomad" style, where they at least have a liveable vehicle, remote income and a network of friends. When so many people have gone these alternative routes that apartments sit empty for months with no takers, landlords will be forced, as they were during COVID, to live in the real world and restrain their greed. This is already happening in other areas, not sure how long it'll take with NYC as its reputation as an incredible place to socialize, network and enjoy entertainment keeps potential tenants interested. It puts a burden on employers to pay very high wages to get the good employee prospects, though. We'll see.
EXACTLY. Rents are going up everywhere.
Whether it's here in the Pacific Northwest, northern california, southern California, New York, Florida or anywhere else. I reside in the Pacific Northwest area just outside of Seattle, and in my area, rents have tripled, not to mention Seattle, Tacoma and everywhere in between. Gentrification is real. It affects anyone and everyone, if you are low income or a person of color. So all the people that are working the so-called low paying and minimum wage jobs can't afford a place to live and so they are being pushed out, and then you wonder why all the so-called low-income jobs are looking for people to work for them.... Think about it, the people that need/want to work at the low income jobs like fast food restaurants and what not, they cannot afford the commute, or waste their time on that to do all that. So these people are moving to areas that they can "barely" afford to live in and is going to work in that community. -MMG.
Folks don’t wanna learn a skill or get a post grad education is why?
People from other countries who come here will take over cause Americans need their own space and cannot really live with all those people in the house I think.
Got out of NYC 20 years ago. Cost of living was outrageous, even back then. Best decision I ever made.
Forget the cost of living, NYC is a hellhole in general
@@ericktwelve11 u bugging
@@keenovgodz2238 He's not bugging. NYC is a nightmare. Can't wait to get the fuck out.
@@magellanicspaceclouds Texas is great. If you dont' freeze to death or you're a woman.
@@magellanicspaceclouds to each there own but I love NY. Im a city nigga all day. Except I dont like that cold much.
Subways in some countries have barriers between the platform and the tracks, and they open up when the train arrives, with the doors perfectly aligned with the barrier openings.
NYC resident here. Thanks so much. This needs exposure.
I hope you never stop making these videos! It’s so incredibly fascinating to see New York from this perspective.
Brilliant editing too ❤
Yeah, He’s Good.
Too bad he is just a liar who is capitalizing off of misleading titles and information. There is absolutely nothing going on in NYC that is not happening throughout the country. If anything, in NYC its nowhere near as bad as other cities. This is all just for his bullshit content to make money. "Cash" Jordan strikes again.
@@JIGGAMAN186NY watch some news before commenting.. illiterate.
@@JIGGAMAN186NY the city is overrun by criminals and it will NEVER be a good place thanks!
@@wabi3952 Tell me somewhere this isn't happening lmao. Thanks!
4495 for a small ass apartment is outrageous
Totally entertaining and informative piece. Killer video editing.
Thank you for this video. It was informative and very interesting to watch 😄
I grew up mostly in NYC in the 80s and 90s and feel so fortunate to have experienced it when it was still liveable. I’ll always be grateful for all of those experiences and for the person I became because of them, but I left in 2004 and haven’t regretted it. Every time I’m back to visit friends and family it seems that more of the city I remember has vanished. 😢
😢
You're right, the NYC we knew in the 90s will never be here again. But even the pre-pandemic NYC is gone.
@ted kaczynski I’m not defending democrats, but republicans wouldn’t run the city any better. Ultimately the greed would win out over everything as the politicians cater to the wealthy developers and their investors. There’d be just as much unaffordable “luxury” housing people wouldn’t be able to afford, businesses would suffer except those that cater to the wealthy and and those middle class people who desire to not live amongst cockroaches and rats would flee. Republicans wouldn’t change any of this.
@ted kaczynski tbh it was every party, nyc has had both dems and republicans as mayors in recent years and both have sucked
This is the perfect example of brainwashing gone wild. 80s , 90s NYC was far more dangerous than today, but your thinking the city is more dangerous now due to news articles and RUclips videos? The cognitive dissonance is wild.
The sad thing is this expands beyond the city. Even the outer reaches of Brooklyn are insane. My family was priced out around 2017. Rent for a three bedroom went from $1700 to $2300. The landlord could not even find stable tenants for what was in the neighborhood. Some of the places we used to order food from went from $35-40 to close to $70-90 for take-out. Everything feels so much more hostile too. I love city living, being able to walk or take public to places, yet it is so draining financially and mentally.
It's not just New York. In this slightly subpar complex deep in the suburbs of San Diego a 3-bedroom is $3,577. I was just reading about some town in Idaho where school teachers are living in cars.
It's wild to see new York asking so much money for rent to the point whole buildings remain unused and they just try to ask even more as if it'll solve the problem.
@@TheAnnoyingBoss I've actually heard that 60% of condo buildings in NYC are EMPTY, isn't that insane- and obscene. With over 80 000+ homeless people, on top of it? Something is very wrong and NYC is only one example. Housing/real estate prices are becoming indecent everywhere, even in Canada, where I live (but I know NYC very well).
live in a city in europe not in america lol
If by some crazy chance you took a time machine to 2050, what do you suppose the average rent would be? I'm guessing around 300k a month for a one bedroom with only a sink sprayer, no sink or stove etc. How did we get here?
Same kind of stuff is happening in my nearby San Francisco. Almost all those companies either are remote full time or have just failed to even try to get their employees back since jobs are plentiful in the industry.
SF (and almost all major metro areas) was not designed to not have people showing up for work every day. The downtown was pretty big during the work week and most weekends but it’s basically dead now because all the people who worked there have no reason to go. It’s why our regional transit system, BART, is down riders so much. Most of them were commuters who just don’t have a commute anymore.
Combine that with leaders who don’t care and you leave the city to either people who’ve lived their for decades and are very wealthy, techies in very private areas with houses worth tens of millions, and homeless drug users who literally shit on the sidewalk.
Something’s gotta change. Maybe convert most of the office space into apartments. SF can’t build anything new, there’s no room to. Same with Manhattan or any other city that doesn’t have the ability to create urban sprawl.
NYC paramedic, We definitely answer when you press the Help desk button it generates a call that goes straight to NYPD / NYFD dispatching centers.
NYC is simultaneously essential and unbearable. Thanks for documenting it so well.
I live in Chelsea since 2004 and it seems very bearable to me.
@@SicilianStealth That wasn't meant as a criticism of NYC. Sinatra said: "If I can make it here I'll make it anywhere." That's kind of what I meant.
Used to be essential. No more.
@@SicilianStealth I live in Midtown, and ditto. Does it have its problems, yes, but what major city, post lock-down doesn't?
I agree. I've also seen someone online perfectly describe this phenomenon as "Pro: you live in New York City; Con: you live in New York City."
This was all done on purpose. Make any future decisions on where to live and how to vote with that understanding. Also, I used to live in NYC, and my hair dresser was on the 3d floor above Ess-A-Bagel (I see here that that floor is boarded up now). The place is truly nothing special by NY standards, where you can get a killer bagel from any deli or street vendor. Lining up around the block for a bagel on 3d Avenue in New York City is like lining up to get a NY style pizza when you're already in NY. The lemming is strong with these people.
Exactly
what was done on purpose?
Event 201
The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY. The exercise illustrated areas where public/private partnerships will be necessary during the response to a severe pandemic in order to diminish large-scale economic and societal consequences.
@@MrKongatthegates Event 201
The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY. The exercise illustrated areas where public/private partnerships will be necessary during the response to a severe pandemic in order to diminish large-scale economic and societal consequences.
It's called voting Democrat. People are too ignorant to listen. It doesn't matter about your views- Democrats have been known to destroy economies. Even the NY times (most liberal column) admitted it.
One of your best videos to date!!!! Thank you!
Friends, HIMYM and other sitcoms situated in NYC have really romanticized NYC, when it fact, like is freaking tough in NYC, filthy, crowded, everything extremely expensive and lots of crimes.
I moved to NYC in 1999 at the age of 24 - visited then for the first time as an adult. The streets of NYC had a huge impression on me. The excitement, the people, the raw life. It was the best time of my life for probably 8 years... After being away for almost a decade, I moved back to NYC in my early 40s in 2016. The city had changed as had I. Enduring the covid pandemic there put me over the edge. New Yorkers are not the people they used to be. They've lost their grit, their purpose. The city is a hollow, filthy remnant of what it was in the 90s. I feel privileged to have been a part of the true NYC as a young guy. I left NYC last year. I miss the old NYC but today's NYC - whiny millennials, crime, $6 lattes, The Highline, Progressivism gone mad - it can all rot in hell for all I care. Life is sad.
Well they moaned and complained about high crime, then went out and voted Democrat again so I don’t feel sorry for the state of the city, it’s obvious that the people there are ok with it !! 🙄🤷🏻♂️
@@dim4ny no, actually. I've lived all over the world - LA, SF, NYC, London and a bit of France. Where are you from douche?
Haha... yes, that's what political correctness does, it strips everyone of character.
For $4,5k/month, you can rent a 1,200 square foot apartment in the heart of Paris...
Really & I always heard London & Paris rents put NYC to shame.
@@samanthab1923 Try Munich, a real piss take too..
Paris sucks. These apartments are at the heart of NYC a much better city.
@@supreme1572 Paris is only 2nd in "city that sucks in France" top 10. The n°1 is Marseille, there's not a single district that's dirty with dustbins mountains. And I do believe that NYC is sadly losing a lot of its inhabitants, with how skyrocketing rents are. If even the smallest apartment (or even room) can't be rented by anyone who ain't a millionaire not just in NYC but in all major American cities, then no wonder why the US are becoming less and less attractive in the real estate world...
@@potrelviewer9536 the problem is the real estate world only cares about massive profits and very expensive/lucrative apartments and buildings. I pay $650 to live in NYC in a Brooklyn apartment and it's not bad at all. I do my shopping at a local bodega owned by Dominicans and it's cheaper than going to Big Box stores (except Costco). The only living issue is the global inflation that everyone in the world is dealing with.
I’ve been watching you for a couple of years or more considering how old your daughter is… I used to think I would return to the City, but now I’m older and apartments are too expensive and walking is tricky. I visited almost a year ago and bikes are crazy fast and walking across the street is an acquired talent which I seem to have lost. I guess I will stick to my memories of the upper east side when it was swell and I lived there. Now I stay at a Pod hotel with people from all over the world. Cheap.
Just looking, what is a pod hotel? Never heard of that .
@@karenclabaugh5416 Look up pod hotels in Japan they are sweet there. Also US pod hotel videos on RUclips. You sleep in a pod in a hotel is the whole thing. A pod is like a big case for a person. It is spacious and you close yourself in. US ones could be different. Along with other people, with bathroom and vending machines and more in Japan. I only know of in Japan. It is a cheap option when traveling to Japan.
@@whimsicalgolde no thanks! I am claustrophobic 😂
Grew up in Manhattan and moved out 5 years ago. Sold my place to move to Michigan on 50 acres of woods and a home that I could never afford in NYC. I hear woodpeckers and wild turkeys in the morning around my home. I don't miss the smells, sirens, fast paced life. I would never go back.
@@whimsicalgolde I could never do it. I am far too claustrophobic. You’re a far greater person than I am in this sense for certain.
First day I arrived in NYC I overheard an old woman tell the cashier at CVS “let me tell you the secret of life, it’s not where you are that matters, it’s what you’re doing, and who you’re doing it with.” 20 years ago.
I needed to hear that
Office buildings are empty… rents are all time high … and there’s not enough apartments… I wonder what we can do!
The police arrest someone and they are out on the street before the paperwork is done.
New York is just reinventing itself again. However the higher rents are being driven by greed. Enjoyed the video Cash.
Lmao...reinventing itself????
@@valiakloeppel7252 All cities ebb and flow- they’ve cited NYC’s demise for at least a century now. It will rebound, it always does.
@@lulubellecataloni5605 Very True 👍
Crazy the way things are going. Same types of issues in Toronto where I live. Prices going up everywhere, rent is ridiculous... obviously not at a Manhattan Scale but a lower parallel.
When my dad grew up in Toronto in the 1920s, an average worker could afford living there. Now their old neighborhood is only for the wealthy.
@@susanpage8315 That is becoming true of many areas in Toronto.
It's not just in NYC, it's everywhere
Most likely what's going to happen is, those empty office buildings in midtown will be converted to apartments/condos and that will be wicked expensive, but when those new places come online....prices will take a small hit, at least in midtown.
As someone who works remote for a NY based company, I get it, but I've only been to the local office once in the last 2 years....if they require me to start going to the office, I'm going to need a LARGE pay raise. Cool video as always Cash!
Are they willing to give u the raise?
I don’t think that’s a given. Those buildings with their plumbing and layouts weren’t meant to be residential. The cost and time it would take for such conversions is not to be underestimated. It’s not something many developers would willingly take on.
Can these corporate landlords claim rent loss on their taxes? Just how long can they survive without paying tenants?
@@EastSide-qc5oy Then Hotels/apartments with no in unit water and only down the hall showers/bathrooms. As a Hotel I could see those.
I was wondering about that. The office tower I worked in until 2009 in Cinti has become trendy lofts.
This video is pretty accurate, I would also like to add that the MTA is so broken… I ride the bus and subways everyday and it almost feel like it’s wrong to actually pay for your fare when 90% of people don’t actually pay… I don’t even think it’s people trying to get over on the system, the system is just broken and no one actually cares anymore…
i don't see how you got the 90% I ride it almost every day and I see one or maybe two person hop. everyone else pays
Same, everyone I see is paying. I do notice pop up marijuana dealers right outside a lot of the smaller subway stations, which is getting annoying and probably dangerous.
Yeah, 90% is definitely cap.
@@martinvanburen4578 she’s literally lying. 90% I bet you don’t even live in NYC
You hit the nail on the head. Every institution is broken. Everyone is affected. The system is broken. Most definitely! No one escapes this one. NOW U DEFINE YOUR THIS ONE? AMERICA IS OVER. REMEMBER THE GOOD TIMES! 👍God is still in charge!
As someone from Chicago and who went to school in London and so have been an urbanite my whole life, I feel so much of the hype around NYC is from people from small towns in the US who have never lived or even been to a major world city and feel impressed by all the culture and people that is part of every major city and aren't aware that the quality of life in London, Paris, Berlin, Chicago, LA, SF, etc. is much, much higher, with most of those places costing much less. The friends I have who live in nice, centrally located neighborhoods of Chicago and London would have to live in the outskirts of Brooklyn and Queens for the same rent in NYC. And I hate to break it to New Yorkers, but every major city in the world has theaters and opera houses and museums and ethnic restaurants and parks and bookstores and music venues, and all the other things that people think make NYC unique. I admit that NYC does have a certain unique buzz sheerly due to the density, diversity, and hype, but people have to realize whatever cultural advantage New York had over the rest of the world from 1945-1990 just doesn't exist In the same way anymore.
Saying every major city in the world has theaters may technically be true, but in reality London is the only other city in the world that is remotely on par with NYC in terms of the sheer volume of theatre. Theatre (Broadway, Off-Broadway, etc. - and the mix of commercial and non-profit) is one of the most unique things about NYC that attracts so many people. It's simply not the same is places like Paris, Berlin, Chicago, LA, or SF. Those places aren't theatre destinations. Regardless of the problems NY has...I couldn't fathom living someplace else like Paris or LA and NOT having access to this level and amount of theatre.
It's kind of the same thing for Paris , prices are super high especially if you want to live in an apartment but many people from all over the world and France are fantasising Paris , many people from other regions in France want to move to Paris , _la capitale_ as we say and anyway most of us have to because many jobs are concentrated here .
But you can't live in _Paris intra muros_ or you have to accept to live in a rabbit cage so most of us go to the suburbs.
Paris has only 2 100 000 people (with an important density, it's like Mannathan) but if you count Hauts-de-Seine , Seine-Saint-Denis, Val de Marne and other suburbs (Argenteuil, Versailles , Cergy , Massy , Torcy , Évry...) it goes to 10 000 000 people.
Some of them are already extremely far away from Paris and areas like La Défense and it's just hell when railway workers are on strike .
@@daviddean5953
Paris is culturally important though, even for theatres and opéras
"And I hate to break it to New Yorkers, but every major city in the world has theaters and opera houses and museums and ethnic restaurants and parks and bookstores and music venues, and all the other things that people think make NYC unique. " THIS. NYCers and SFers are SO SMUG about these things, especially when they both call their cities "the Greatest" YET I always say, if NY and SF are SO GREAT why don't they have the Greatest Public Schools, Greatest Health Care, Greatest Sanitation, Greatest X, Y, Z,... you can't call your city "The Greatest" and have failing public schools. Ok, YES you own a TESLA and have your groceries electronically delivered, and you have a tricked-out condo and go to see the latest cultural offerings, yet you DON'T send your kids to the local school because it's "crap", and there's schools that can't teach the children to read AND write at a certain level. So you PAY for a private school or fight to get your kids in a handful of select schools, which I always find "crazy" in "Greatest City" arguments. If YOUR CITY IS SO GREAT (looking at NYers and SFers) shouldn't ANY CHILD walk down the street and get a great education at ANY school WITHIN NYC without it being a "LOTTERY" or a "FIGHT" to get in a "good school"?
Excellent honest look into why folks are running out of NY
Cash this was absolutely great content and on point! Please make more of these videos around lifestyle in the city.
This is happening to Philly too...formerly happening South street is dead...eherever you go theres trash everywhere...even the traditionally high tourist parts of center city are overrun with tent cities...the open drug scenes in Kenzo and other neighborhoods are literally world famous. It's a disgrace and as a former resident it breaks my heart. I had to stop visiting altogether.
Same here. So sad. Lived there for years and loved it. Moved out just in time and now had a kid and so afraid to take her downtown. Even Rittenhouse isn’t safe.
Philly is a dump. Does anyone still go there other than the airport?
They don't call it "Filthadelphia" for nothing.
1000 homicides in less than 2 years. you aren't wrong. Parts of Philly are pure anarchy. There are no-go zone for police; they will get attacked or worse if they go in certain neighborhoods. Literally looks like a third world country out here
Shitting where you eat. Democrat dream.
I always thought living in NYC would be interesting. But the more I looked into it, the more I realized it would not be the life I wanted. I would have had to work all the time just to continue to live there, the displeasure with which would have offset the pleasure of being in the city. I might have made such a trade for Paris or London had the chance come up, but I didn't want to live in NYC that badly.
Great video
Just subscribed
Looking forward to another great video
Thanks for sharing
God bless
I like your honesty. People need to know what's going on for real. Thanks for sharing 👌
I miss the city every day. As an Assistant Professor, I still did not make enough to accommodate rising rental costs, taxes, bills and paying my student loans. This job should have been my career and NYC was to be my home, forever...but my salary could not keep up. Had I a trust fund and taught college English, I would have been okay. Coincidentally, I knew more people with trusts or family inheritance money than out of any place I've known. I miss it terribly; it is lifeless and without culture here. That said, I haven't been pushed in front of an oncoming train by a stranger, so I guess merely existing is some kind of win?
It's a culture of either super rich or homelessness.
Either move to chicago or far west to San Francisco .....texas is good comparatively but you'll get a remote feeling living there!!!! Chicago is best on my opinion ....also the media portrays chicago as a place for murders which is completely wrong......just live here in illinois and take a trip upwards to wisconsin......man!!!! The people are far better than east side people .....so friendly!!!!
Try traveling the world. Theyre are cheaper places with more vitality than NYC. NYC peaked and is just a giant corporate shopping mall. The mom and pop shops are nearly all gone. The artists are all gone. You cant feel that electricity and energy… its just not here anymore
Do you realize that a culture is a group of like things...
Meaning everything is the same.
Is that what you want?
Move to Singapore or any other metropolits
Please make more videos like these! The information is valid
the pan up at 3:44 was really surreal and kinda dystopian. looks like a movie set. it would creep me out to be there
Over $4,000 to live in a hallway with no windows! lol 😂
That's my genre
I used to live on 36th & 6 Ave in ard 2002-2007, my rent was only low 2gs with 1 bedroom apartment.......
Thanks for your realness every post. I’ve had it with nyc but it’s so hard to save with the inflated cost of life in the city. And I make over 90k. The struggle is REAL.
5 generations born in Manhattan. Actually, the West Village- I knew it when it was an artist sanctuary for my parents ( they met in art students league). It is heartbreaking that it became a commercial, violent cesspool. I was part of the corporate fashion industry that was sold to china. Where did pride go and greed seeped in?
Pride went to the peepo who look at the world through the lenses of their junk holes
When i first graduated from college and moved to Manhattan, we used to go down there every weekend to see the artists studios and galleries and my best friend went to the art students league. I loved the neighborhood then. It was special and different, and now it’s just high end shopping and dining. Like every other neighborhood.
Pride is how it started and there's only 1 that fits
Just like every other cool, artsy neighborhood, the yuppies moved in and there went the neighborhood.
Lived there in the 70s to 1987. My gran a life long new yorker , a photographer..and spent summers there in the 60s. Nothing like the city in the old days.
It's hard to understand why there is such hot demand for apartments when so much of the traditional office work isn't there anymore.
You can "work remotely" from your apartment and still have a great social life with the bars, restaurants and other recreation Manhattan offers. Working remotely in the suburbs is very dull for some people.
lifestyle, dating scene,
you still have 80% of the people, health care, academics, scientits and college students from the us and abroad, hospitality workers, business owners, actors, actors and performers,
@vladimir vizcaya it's worse than it's made out to seem
@@hewitc Dull, but at least safer.
Notice how you see no kids anywhere
My husband is a criminal defense atty. He says murder is down, robbery up
I got lucky I found a rent controlled apartment in Queens, but my commute to work now is ridiculous and the trains just seem to keep getting worse and worse, constant delays and signal issues or trains just stopping in the middle of tunnels for what feels like eternity, and that's not even mentioning the crime. I love my neighborhood in Queens but its getting harder and harder to justify staying in the city.
the LIRR in bayside is horrible now. at least 3 times a week I'm stuck on the tracks for 15-20 minutes because of some signal issue or police activity. same with the subways. constant delays, service changes, stopping in the tunnel for 20 minutes, etc
Can I ask what neighborhood?
@@jyllian3990 Kew gardens
How much do you pay for rent and what do yo get for that in sqft
It's just the same in the UK Cash. Lots of empty offices, dead shopping malls & depressing High Streets. Jobs being lost on a daily basis but rents & property prices keep on rising. Drug related crime is still a major issue. I wish I had the solution to fix all our problems but I don't!
Sad
We do. Reset the price of food, gas, housing, and medical. Every country and most corporations are bleeding everyone dry. Then, we wouldn’t have to raise income as high because money would go further. We also need tighter housing and food laws.
And yet they opened Battersea power station.
@@ekaprasetio9564 yes they did. People with money are never affected and in fact always seem to gain more wealth at times like this!
@@fannycraddock99 that's what I have been noticing as well. Everywhere I go, the restaurants and cafes are always full. Also Westfield's and Oxford street. I thought they were just window shopping but they brought shopping bags with them. It's totally on the contrary on what's on the news. But, I am sure many many people are struggling right now in the UK especially in London. You're right, rich people are getting richer and poor people are getting poorer.
I haven't back to NYC since 2012. Man the city has changed a lot.
I got news for ya. It is happening in LOTS of major cities. And not just in the US. Same thing happening in London. It is happening here in Chattanooga, TN. We are getting overflow from Nashville and California and more expensive cities. Musical Chairs, but with real estate.
Same thing with food prices everywhere.
NYC is not for everyone including myself. For those that are about that city life and have an income that allows you to live comfortably then best of luck to you and enjoy!
I don’t need huge expensive cities like LA, NYC, or DC to enjoy the city life. Smaller and medium sized cities offer a great urban lifestyle at much lower prices.
@@r.pres.4121 Your point is taken. But NYC is not DC, Chicago or San Francisco. I've lived in small towns, Philadelphia, Chicago, and now NYC. None of those places are the same, and no place is like NYC.
Pretty crazy. I lived in NYC from 1990 to 2000. Left 1 year (to the month) before 9/11. A different world. However, I'm pleased to see that a lot of the places where I used to eat are still in business.
Professionally converted a Van to a home and pay for yearly parking in a garage near central park- only $400 a year with all the amenities
This is why I love to follow you, Cash. Cuz you're just really cool. 😎
Thanks Jordan for being honest. I've seen 4 coops go up for sale in my building in the past 6-8 months. Executives who want employees to return to the office that executive should be the first one in that office
I worked in NYC just before the pandemic (It might have even been 825 3rd Ave. bldg.). I don't think it would take that much to make any of these office buildings into affordable housing. If NYC is going to survive it needs to drastically make housing affordable to match the wages in the area. I don't see it surviving if it becomes just a place for tourists or the ultra wealthy. After all you need housing for those that are working in the restaurants, motels, etc.
You need windows for apartments. Cubicles can have artificial light, flats not so much.
I honestly don’t understand how service industry workers survive in NYC…
@@angelinimartini 3-4 roommates
To make them into affordable housing and yo give it for free to illegals? HELL, NOOOO
@@Bart-dg6qv Actually artificial light from LEDs are very better than windows. Much more energy efficient and color temperature controllable. There is no need for windows in each unit. The window areas would make great common areas for an indoor park like setting.
So I have a question for those of you who work remotely: Does having so many work from home ever cause problems?
I dont live in New York but i have been remotely for 3 years now and im 22 . The only thing is companies want your office space to be private and not accessible by just anyone. They also want a quiet workplace
Its alot better working remotely. Just get used to not socializing as much except for zoom calls. If you have any other questions just lmk😊
My whole family is from there, it’s always been crowed and expensive but it’s just getting worse. The whole family moved away and my grandma won’t be able to continue living there once she’s strictly on social security, it’s sad 😔
This is the best video you have made yet...The true NY experience!!!
"I'm a real estate agent in new York" ah so he's a scam artist
New York too expensive crime is out of control.. smh
Crime is out of control? Compared to where and when. Compared to NYC in the 70’s, this city looks ever tame.
@@maximillianosaben Dude, did you watch the video? NYC won't even report crime statistics. It may not be the 70s, but if that is where we are headed, why not stop it now?!
How about simply NOT standing on the frigging edge of any subway platform while zombied out on the phone 🤔
I’m not from nyc I’m from neighboring state
Man nyc is wild chaotic hectic amazing all in one
as a new yorker i am personally scared to step foot into the trains
I've never been on a train but I've seen enough videos and history to know trains and people don't work well together. I prefer trains to have freight not people. I don't like seeing the bodies after everyone gets locked in with a bad guy
@@TheAnnoyingBoss the thing is New York is densely populated and as a New Yorker we have to deal with packed trains the trains aren’t very reliable and try working late into the night it’s crazy
@@TheAnnoyingBoss 40,000 traffic fatalities doesn't seem to bother you? trains scary, ew poor people
Very well said. With the crime rate going up, jobs are remote, rent prices, cost of living, and, hard to get started in a career. I honestly can’t recommend living here even though I love it here. Such a tough situation
Hi, (im from Australia, love these videos). So if office buildings are empty and more than 50% of staff are permanently working now from home, why then are rent prices skyrocketing in NYC? I mean if you can work from home, why not move to the coast or somewhere beautiful where $17 chicken sandwiches don’t exist? What’s the appeal of a big congested city with rising crime?
You mean like in every other big city across the country? Stop nitpicking.
@@JIGGAMAN186NY yes buttttt the rent is not 4k .
@@jamiegrayson3739 bc people love nyc. All the people who complain, go somewhere else and see it’s shit there and come back. Yes, nyc has problems. Find me a place that doesn’t. Crime is up EVERYWHERE. Hell nyc doesn’t even hit the top 15 list for crime. Yes, crime is up but to act like it’s not the case everywhere is just stupid.
@@yourfavpersuasion9385 Really? Because I can find plenty of places in Miami, LA, Chicago, and even hidden places in PA like West Chester where rents are the same as NYC, in same cases more. Miami is the most expensive rental market in this entire country right now.
You must break something in order to “reset” it. RIP NY.
im a REaltor in Florida { north on the Gulf of Mexico} its booming here
Dude this is bi coastal. I am in Los Angeles,
same issues are happening here. I love both places and appreciate their differences. Sad
but grateful I was able to enjoy both cities
before their downfall.
Quit saying "Dude" and educate yourself. Stop being such a simpleton. It doesn't come off well.
Move to Texas or like Wisconsin
@@243wayne1 It's RUclips comment, not a college thesis. They can say dude if they want
@@helloill672 If you want to appear unintelligent, be my guest.
Los Angeles ain’t going no where but nyc yes that prices at 35% more expensive than la and I don’t know if u noticed la buildings look a lot newer and are renovated nyc apartments can cost 4k and haven’t be renovated since the 2000s that should be a crime
I call NYC "my city" even though I'm not from there (not even close) and I haven't lived there for almost two decades (I left in 2003). I moved there in 1987 during the end of the Koch era when NYC was still wild and untamed. I watched it slowly transform into the most amazing place during it's renaissance up until 9/11. This makes me very sad but grateful that I experienced this magical place at it's heyday. I was taught to have street smarts/awareness and to use common sense and to follow certain rules ALWAYS - I rarely felt afraid or unsafe and I was all over Manhattan from one end to the other, in all kinds of neighborhoods, on foot by cab or subway (which I used nearly everyday). The vibrancy and everyday energy and exuberance seems to have fallen by the wayside and it seems to be slowly shuffling and slogging into cliche and mediocrity. Breaks my heart really.
Yes, NYC went down the toilet during decades of Democrat leadership (Dinkins' term was the worst) and was restored during Republican Giuliani's terms, remained lovely during Republican (mostly) Bloomberg's terms, and started back down the crapper when Democrat DeCommie-O became Mayor. Adams is just "De-Commie-O Lite." It's not slogging into cliche and mediocrity. It's barreling toward anarchy, despair and ruin. But keep voting Democrat....
@@annademo yes, I agree - I don't understand it at all
My precise era as well. The transformation from 'Taxi Driver' apocalypse into one of the safest big cities in the world showed me you can't give up on smart, passionate people. The return to high crime, decay etc. broke my heart.
We’re blessed to have experienced NYC when it was glorious and gritty. Crime was there, but we knew the areas to avoid and people looked out for one another. The energy of the city and uniqueness of the boutiques and mom/pop eateries made any risk worth it. I knew the end was near when I spotted a Seven-Eleven in my UES neighborhood. I shed a tear like that Indian man on those (back-in-the day) commercials where he reacted to trash on the side of the highway😢 No joke...I cried.
Been wanting to move back so bad. This video makes me cry the prices are impossible now
To be honest, I live in a big metropolitan city in Texas and yes, things can be cheaper here, but a typical meal in a restaurant is going to cost you $20 before tip without a drink or an appetizer. Also add-ons are $2-$10. In addition, if you’re going to a coffee shop and want a food item and your coffee has alternative milk, yeah you’re paying $12-$16 before tip and before tax. It always blows my mind when I travel to “expensive cities” because to be frank, a lot of them are actually cheaper or on-par with where I live… and Texas is supposed to be “so cheap.” That’s considering our average rent here is between $1250-$1550 but if you want to live in a nice building in a safe part of town, it’s $1600+ for studio/1bedroom.
This makes me so thankful I was able to live and go to school there when I did (2003-2005). East Village for a year then Staten Island for a year. It was very expensive and I ate a lot of baloney sandwiches but it was one of the best times of my life. So sad to see how corporate greed and a terrible housing market is allowed to just wipe out all affordable housing in the city.
Nothing to do with society being puppets and voting three so called officials to govern them, buying off corporate greed such as Amazon and pretending this is all acceptable. Joke
@@yofinance1777 This isn't something that happened overnight. The entire system needs to be overhauled.
Also politicians
I think i need to get onto the baloney sandwich thing to stay in nyc
@@vickenator Offices will have to get rezoned as residential. When they realize the city cannot make a living only out of semi-empty luxury condos they will have to create space for people to go back. In the meantime the gap bet rich and poor will widen.
i moved this year to the area around 3rd shown in the video for my partner to go to grad school and it was brutal finding a place. the place i got had gone up 60% in one year after renovation and the landlords illegally tried to deny me to live there even though I barely made enough to qualify. everybody I know thinks I should be having the time of my life but to be honest many aspects are much worse than most places I’ve lived. even making great money like I am it feels like there’s no future for me or my partner here because our families are not rich. for just a 2bd2ba the bare minimum seems like 800k in a far-flung corner of town for a squalid building. that’s 180k minimum income needed with today’s interest rates. Seems like what they say about New York hating its residents is true. I see no reason to stay - I’m out and letting everyone know this place isn’t whatever people used to rave about😢
Wonderful video!
The pink buu ones the best
Damn right same thing for the adidas dbz shoe colab they did a while back 👍👍👍