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

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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:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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Anonymous wrote: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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OP here - rent is easier for a young man than a young woman. Women need doorman buildings, men don’t -

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

This. I would travel for work weekly to NYC in my single 20s era. There is nothing like it. I miss those days! Highly recommend.

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Because the parents whose kids go to T20 schools raised elitist snobs and elitist snobs think NYC is the only place to go after college. Seems pretty straight forward. They were raised to want "the best" of everything and accept no substitute.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here - rent is easier for a young man than a young woman. Women need doorman buildings, men don’t -

😂 what?

It is way easier for a young woman to live rent free in nyc than a young man

I don’t think you know the nyc economy well at all