Reply #25: My daughter did exactly that (she is 25) and won't live anywhere else [View All]

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She lives with a roommate in a shabby tiny apartment on E. 30th street. She finally got a job that pays $40,000 a year
with a company that's doing so poorly, it may not survive the year. Rent for her hole in the wall is about $2000, which
she pays every other month.

She has made a zillion friends, many of whom work in (or own!) restaurants, gets lots of freebies, and with very little
money left over for fun, refuses to live anywhere else--she has even turned down a job in San Francisco!

Keep in mind that she is German, and the access to JFK and Air Berlin (cheap flights nonstop to Düsseldorf, where we
are based) is very important to her, whereas you can fly to the Midwest from anywhere in North America with less hassle.