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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just got back from NYC where I was helping my DD move in. We went grocery shopping and the bill came to $260, which is more than I usually spend for our family of 4 for a week! A pound of Starbucks coffee cost $22. Here it is $12.
This morning we went out for breakfast, bill came to $75 for 2 people, we each had eggs. She also had a lemonade.
My point is that absolutely everything in NYC is super expensive. I can totally see where she is coming from. But yes, don’t have 3 kids if you can’t afford to.[/quote]

The only thing you've proven here is that neither you nor your daughter has any idea where to buy affordable groceries or which restaurants to frequent. I've lived in NYC for over twenty-five years, and my weekly grocery bill has never come anywhere near $260, nor have I ever gone to breakfast with another person and had the bill come to $75. [/quote]

Not everyone eats low quality fried cheese at bodegas with cats urinating on the stove. Anything better will be PP’s costs.  [/quote]

You don’t know the city and neither did the father moving his daughter.   She’ll figure it out though.   [/quote]

I do. It’s pay to play. If you want quality food you’ll be paying a fortune at Wegmans or Eli’s. Have fun with your expired mango from Juan.  [/quote]

You keep doubling down on your lack of awareness.  Sorry to tell you bluntly but you sound like a fool with these statements. I suggest you get off of dcum and go explore NYC. [/quote]

There is some PP here who apparently spent one summer internship at a 3rd tier investment bank living in Yorkville, and now he believes he knows that the poverty line in NYC is $1.5 mil for a family of 5. [/quote]

Sorry you don’t make 1.5mm a year (Sad!). And sorry you can’t even afford Yorkville (which isn’t that nice outside 120 East End Ave….)

Never worked in investment banking. My family set me up well enough that I don’t have to have a career like that. [/quote]

Some of the new condo buildings in Yorkville are pretty nice.  20 East End.  200 East 83rd.  301 East 80th and 301 East 81st.  And a couple more on the way.  Not bad if you have a kid at Chapin or Brearley.[/quote]

Postwar honey. Yuck![/quote]

I was with you for a lot of this thread, but if you don't like Stern buildings, I am not sure what to say.  I'd much rather those than some of the pest-infested, window/wall A/C unit, creaky plumbing plagued pre-war places on Park.[/quote]

Stern buildings are an extreme outlier in Manhattan postwar construction in their tastefulness and elegant proportions. Most postwars are tacky 60s/70s architecture you can even see on Fifth. Then you have the supertalls, which are polarizing.[/quote]

Agree.  That's why I listed a couple of them above as condo buildings in Yorkville I like.[/quote]

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