Quote from scriabinop23:
New York is such a joke. $5700-$10000 rent for a decent middle class apartment in a nice area of manhattan....
It amazes me why people even bother ...
Guess it was a function of wall street being able to arbitrage inefficiency and stupidity out of the rest of the world.
DON'T LAUGH! My girlfriend's family lives in Peoria, IL & live well. Houses are only about $80-$110k & there are cornfields for miles.
Granted, there are some hicks but people are generally really nice. When I think of the huge positive cash flow scenario by living somewhere like that & just trading from home, it's remarkable. Granted, there's not much to do.
Manhattan's outrageously expensive...you couldn't pay me to live in NYC.
Chicago's still fairly affordable, methinks.
