QOL Living in NYC
 

Everyone recommends living in base, but how is the QOL out by LGA or JFK?

Let me know your thoughts

Thanks.

Depends... I moved to NYC this year and am senior in seat. QOL is great, 18 off, easily credit 100+ a month when I choose. If you like city life it's fantastic. I've met a few other 9E guys living in the city and we all enjoy it. I'm equally able to access JFK and LGA and pick up from both. Not having a car tremendously offset the increased rent I pay, while I manage to live comfortably on the current pay scales.

NY is a dump

I live in New Jersey. The NYC area can be a big and scary place for people who didn't grow up here. But it's also amazing. There's a gritiness to New York that underlies it's culture and class, and that's what makes it great. Most culturally diverse place you will ever see and the best part is probably the food. Any kind of food from anywhere in the world, you can find it any time of day here and it'll be good. The biggest problem in NY is that it's obscenely expensive. The "cool" place to be for the last 10 years or so has been Brooklyn, and there are lots of nice neighborhoods.

For me, the issues are driving and traffic. I live in NJ (grew up here, love it), and where I am it's about a 60 minute/50 mile drive to JFK; longer to LGA. It's expensive, about $30 round trip just in tolls (!!). Also, the traffic on the Staten Island Expressway, Belt Parkway (to JFK), and Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (to LGA) can make you want to eat a bullet. Early in the morning though, the roads are empty and it's easy. It also doesn't help that I drive a stick.

So yea, the NY/NJ/CT area can be a great place. If it wasn't so desirable then there wouldn't be such a problem with housing cost, so that shows that people want to live here.

$30 round trip? Damn... That's crazy

If you don’t live in Queens or on Long Island, you’re crossing a bridge to get to the airports. Prices vary but they’re not pennies.


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Brooklyn exists and has fantastic neighborhoods... I don't pay any more than my MTA card to get to work.

Brooklyn is basically Queens and Long Island.


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I second this. You couldn’t pay me to live there.

then don't live here