Re: LIFE IN NEWYORK CITY

[Aiviet Nguyen <aiviet@cat.syr.edu>]

Hi,
  If you are single, youn, ambitious and talented, NYC is an ideal place to
try. With 4-500 you really have to live in a dirty and unsafe place that 
Anh Dang described.
  My friend rented a 1 bedroom in Brooklyn with ~700USD/month in an 
acceptable place, but you know Brooklyn sounds not very good. In Queens,
you pay ~1000USD in peaceful quarter. If you want to live in Manhattan
the acceptable place is Green Village that costs ~2000 for one bedroom.
A lot of people live in New Jersey Connecticut and travel.
  If you are alone and don't care much, a place in Harlem is relatively cheap
( somewhere next to Columbia and CUNY).

  In NYC you can really enjoy all best things ( and worst) of the US 
culture ranged from Theaters, Concerts, Museums,...The cultural life of
NYC is not boring at all as most of the american cities. In NYC you will 
have infinite opportunities and contacts with the top class, in the bad case
the contact with bottom class as well. Your children can enjoy music 
lecture at Julliard, walk in Central park and go to school in the famous 
Stevenson,...
 
  An average salary for a new M.S is about high 40K. For a new BS low 30K.
I have a BS friend who started with 27K 7 years ago, now he is earning six 
digits in a financial instituition. ( Only banks pay well).
 State tax of NY is higher than NJ. There is a 2000 difference between
the tax in NY and NJ if you earn around 50K.

Cheers
Aiviet

 

On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Paul Pham wrote:

> hi anh dang
> 
> 1st, thanks for the info.
> 
> On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Dang Ho wrote:
> 
> > It's a rough city to live. Cost of living is so high. Average rent is
> > about $400 to $500 for a single bedroom apartment. One of my friend lives
>         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> hmm !! 400-500 ?? r u missing the last zero :)) it may be unrealistic for
> a place like NYC. in my current place, which is low cost area, 400-500
> is about the cost for 1 bedroom rent. another source put it at around
> 1300-2000 --> this sound reasonable :))
> 
> > I notice that you had a strange spelling on "ki~ su+" is it suppose to be
> > "ky~ su+" instead. How long have you been in the States?
> 
> been here for a long while, however, i'm still very fluent in VNese
> (reading,writing,speaking, and perhaps composing (literature,music) :))
> 
> Danh
> 
> 
>