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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What a ridiculous thread.  Park Sloper here with a $400K HHI raising 2 kids, public schools, loving our life despite living in a small two bedroom apartment.  I'm sure we'd be happy in a dense suburb, also, but our jobs are tied to this location and we have a great work-life balance.  "Where the action is" and "prestige" are not our priorities right now, and we head into Manhattan with our kids a handful of times per year (I commute to lower Manhattan every day).  But there's tons to do locally and further afield in Brooklyn.  How do we spend our weekends?  Like many, in parks, playgrounds, at sports practices, and also at the beach (you can take a subway to Coney Island in under 30 mins!) at the BK botanic garden, the prospect park zoo, the library, restaurants, open streets every Saturday May-October, and so on.  We're high enough income to be able to afford "whatever we want" around here.  There is so much to do for free or low cost in NYC, when people talk about the HCOL they're really just talking about real estate.  The OP on this thread and so many people responding are incredibly out of touch with what life is like - or what like can be like - raising a family in Brooklyn.[/quote]

Dp. Thanks for this. New Yorker here also with 2 kids and a similar HHI and we are very happy living here. I bought a starter apartment in the EV years ago, and then later bought my neighbors place and combined them. It’s not fancy but we adore it here, my kids went to great schools and had amazing opportunities. [/quote]

Posters a page or two ago were saying the EV was for recent grads and not real New Yorkers. Who knew?! Thanks for your post. [/quote]

Pp. Ha, there are young people around and it is funny to walk by bars I went to years ago in my 20s, but yes, there is definitely a community of families down here and nearby on the LES. Definitely some creatives, architects, advertising people, designers, film business, etc who just couldn’t stomach moving to the UES UWS or the suburbs, but then a number of regular boring people like me (a lawyer). I thought about moving myself at one point but then realized I like it here, my space was tight but large enough for my family, and we had everything we needed.  [/quote]

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