Why does every graduating senior want to work/live in NYC?

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Anonymous wrote:Concrete jungle. Gets old quick.

+1 My kids have no interest in living in NYC. We've visited a couple of times with them, and "concrete jungle" is pretty much their takeaway -- crowded and not enough green space. DS has chosen to come back to DC. He has a good job and his friends are mostly staying/returning here (parents here too but the friends are the bigger draw).

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing compares to NYC in your 20s.

+100

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Anonymous wrote:Agree - NYC is wonderful in your early 20s. So much to do, some many new people to meet. Even if you're poor.

Disagree. Sucks being poor there.

I'm the PP. There are so many things to do there that don't cost a lot or are free. Tons of good cheap eats.

There's cheap food and entertainment. The real issue is rent. That is not cheap.

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Anonymous wrote:Nope, my teens never particularly liked NYC. My oldest wants to live in Paris (we're French), and my youngest wants to live in the country, preferably in a northern climate.

Pp here - yes, I think if Paris was as easy for Americans to move to as nyc, it would seriously compete for new grads. As would London.

My DD moved to London after graduating from a UK uni. She loves it so much I doubt she's ever coming home.

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Meanwhile, a good chunk of kids I know have little desire to live in NYC. My own kid is looking at places like Houston to settle down in. Absolutely loves to visit NYC, but no desire to live there.

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DD and most of her friends moved to NYC after graduation. They love it there but don't save much.

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Anonymous wrote:NYC is pretty much superior to DC in every way possible. How would you have any idea if you’ve never left DC?

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Agree - NYC is wonderful in your early 20s. So much to do, some many new people to meet. Even if you're poor.

Disagree. Sucks being poor there.

The people who truly enjoy it make great money or are subsidized by parents. Let’s be real.

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Anonymous wrote:Agree - NYC is wonderful in your early 20s. So much to do, some many new people to meet. Even if you're poor.

Disagree. Sucks being poor there.

The people who truly enjoy it make great money or are subsidized by parents. Let’s be real.

+1 the one kid I know having a great time in NYC doesn't make much money but his parents bought an apartment for him.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you not have a brain? Millions of people live there and tens of millions of people visit it every year. It is up there with London, Paris, and Tokyo as one of the world's greatest cities.

Nobody lives in NYC anymore; it's too crowded.

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I’m in NYC, and yeah, this where the young people flock after graduation.

I’m 50 years old and feel ancient when I am put getting dinner with friends in the village. Even at 1 AM the streets are packed with 20-somethings (when the weather is nice). Washington square park is fantastic at midnight in the summer - although you might get a contact high.

NYC seems socially a whole lot easier than being in the burbs (where I was stuck after gradation), and it’s a much much safer city than DC or B’more.

I get the allure of the DMV when you want a house and a minivan and kids. But there’s not a whole lot of 23 year olds who want to take care of a lawn while chatting about throw pillows with their gen x and boomer neighbors.

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Bc there's a lot to do there? Great if you have the money to do it.

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That's was DH and me . . . and we never left. It's fun and interesting here.

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My large start up company was and still is 100 percent Remote.

In 2020-2023 we started hiring a lot of new hires fresh out of college. Fully remote from all over the country.

I say 70 percent of them relocated to NYC after graduation in a full remote job. They wanted a job in NYC or a remote job to allow them to move to NYC.

Many had roommates with NYC jobs and they joined them.

Eventually we rented a We-Works location so staff could hang out at work together and did Happy Hours for the NYC staff. In our fully remote company around 40 percent of company lived by NYC area. We were mainly young people and single people.

Eventually the same thing happened in London for our European young people.

The fully remote company now has a pretty big office in NYC and London. On Thirsty Thursdays they do once a month where they do free lunch and go to a bar happy hour fully paid by company the office is mobbed with young people. So much they started Bagels Wed and Pizza Fridays.

Old people forget what it was like to be young.

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My kids is moving to DC. She chose NoMa as it is a bit city like and cool. And also walking distance to Union Station Amtrak so she can visit her friends in NYC.