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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]

Park Slope and BoCoCa are worlds apart in price and culture. It’s not at all a given that someone living in Cobble Hill is up to move deeper into Brooklyn. [/quote]

Dp.

Lol. Even though you’re trying to pretend with ‘BoCoCa’, you clearly don’t know current NYC, so just stop. It’s like your understanding of NYC is from sex in the city reruns. You aren’t understanding that Brooklyn *is* the destination. Hate to tell you, but so is queens now too. You’re thinking of a world where only Manhattan is desirable, and therefore only the closest Brooklyn nabes are good (although I notice you never mention DUMBO bc you’re clearly not a local). That changed years ago. I live in Manhattan and my kids went to high school in Manhattan and guess where they all went out? Brooklyn. 
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Dumbo is for foreign trust fund kids to take photos of the bridge and pretend to be photographers.

“Queens is the destination” discredits everything you have to say. People with real money and class live in Manhattan and limited parts of BK. [/quote]

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