Korean Job Discussion Forums

[pkang0202]

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/14/realestate/20101114_twentysomethings.html?ref=realestate

[trogdor]

They live in the middle of New York City. Rents there are nuts, but they probably make more money. Many people choose to live outside of bigger cities and commute, but time is money. Sometimes it's easier to live in a smaller space and walk to work, rather than take a train, bus, or whatever.

[AsiaESLbound]

I rented many such places over the years and only wore thrift store 2nd hand clothes. Some places had a kitchen and others didn't have a bathroom nor closet. Those tiny rooms in New York aren't any more expensive than what I found in other areas. Why rent one? Being one paycheck short of being homeless is unfortunately the reality in today's world regardless of education, skills, and brains. Any landlord charging $85 to $150 a week is ripping off the desperate and you should keep looking if offered that deal. $200 to $400 a month is more like it. Often with water and electric included. More often than not, there are far more older people in small places, but you can go live in a big house with roommates if you bring few or no valuables to be stolen.

I'm not 21 years old, but I'll go room up in NYC if I think there's a possible opportunity to get ahead out of being there. If you are single, you can pick any where you want to live in this fashion. It doesn't appear pay is all that high for your average wage earning jobs in NYC or anywhere else. $9 to $13 an hour is it regardless of education, skills, and brains of which range from retail sales to cubicle jobs to cooking to general labor. The idea was that you'd move up in the world after your 20's, but this market isn't producing much. I wonder how many people 30 to 90 years old are rooming up?

[mimi belle]

[AsiaESLbound]

[RMNC]

The kinds of people with the desire to live in snuffbox for $800 a month because of the allure of "shopping", or whatever, are the kind of face-value sub-human people that I wouldn't ever even visit their rathole, ever. So what if you live on the Lower East Side? That doesn't make you interesting or a better person or something.

Also, the first guy is a slob.

[northway]

I had a 10x8 room living in Uiwang. New York has potential to be worse, but generally speaking isn't quite as bad, and you're just talking New York City. Here you find places like that an hour away from the city.

[trogdor]

I had a sublet for a year that cost me $1,600 a month, utilities included. It was a decent studio without a roomate. Now, I made $17 an hour, which while not great was still decent for a recent grad, so factoring in not having to travel a minimum of 45 minutes to and from work each day like most of my coworkers, the extra $500 a month to live within walking distance of my office was well worth it.

(17x1.5[hrs]x20[days])=$510

Decent apartments in the outer boroughs cost about $900-$1100 a month anyway, even in so so areas, so it was easier to just bite the bullet and pay a bit more.

It was a nice sublet, too. I got lucky. That's why New Yorkers don't think it's rude asking how much you pay in rent. It's a cultural thing. Housing is religion there.

And what's wrong with wanting to be near shopping? How much do people pay on cars, fuel, and car insurance? City dwellers at least use mass transit more often or walk. If you can walk to the shops, you don't overbuy, and get fresher stuff more regularly. As for clothes, why do you care if some people like fashion? You'd rather they wear sweatpants from Sears?

[bucheon bum]

[interestedinhanguk]

Find the hipster in these clips.

[tottenhamtaipeinick]

I had a complete shithole in the Centre of Taipei for 3mths. At first I was so excited because it was on the most famous intersection for cool ppl and right behind the nightclubs!...Then reality kicked in that how do I invite anyone back to my shoebox 17th century room looking into the back of the some smelly restaurant! I felt like I had landed in the drug wars of Brazil.

Yeah you can live in these crap holes but the amount of money u have to spend to almost never be in them (hence you obviously only sleep there?) in the centre of big cities is far too much. I paid $12,000 NT a month or US$400. I ended up moving out of the centre of the hip place and rented a 3 bedroom massive apartment for $25,000 NT with a friend and loved it! and actually saved money, while still be 10mins away from the centre by subway......

oh and I could also invite ppl to drink at myplace as it wasnt embarrassing!

[thomas pars]

[BaldTeacher]