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

I went to college in NYC and had a great time, but couldn't wait to get back to Montana when I finished! For me, it's a fantastic city to visit, but it's not a place to stay long term, especially if you have children.

lol. I love when they call NY and NJ a dump. All most of them see and experience is around the airports. There are areas of both states that most of us can't even dream to afford.

Born and raised here..place is a dump. And an expensive dump at that. If you enjoy ****ing your money away, come on down to good ole NYC and check it out. Some people get blinded by the buildings and bright lights from afar. One subway ride to work in the morning with a homeless crackhead next to you ****ing down his leg will gut check you real quick. If that doesn't, then the state AND city taxes coming out of your paycheck while Uncle Sam bends you over certainly will. General rules of society don't apply here, similar to how they don't in an airport. If thats a place where you want to exist, then welcome.

You can leave the city and avoid tolls. Takes me an extra 30min getting home but I’ll save my money. You just take any of the bridges going into Manhattan to the holland tunnel. That’s if you make it out of the lga employee lot without being run over by an Uber driver.

Anyone ever fall in a septic tank? How's the QOL? Thinking about moving in one.

Maybe a year or two ago a study was published that among thousands of other parasitic strands and bacteria, found trace amounts of the BUBONIC PLAGUE still living in parts of the subway system.

Just tune into the bills colts game right now haha.

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I’m starting to think you’re John Rocker irl lol

haha exactly

Don’t get me wrong, there are absolutely gorgeous parts of upstate New York. Can’t say much about the state of NJ as I haven’t been there. Most of the state of New York is beautiful, I’m specifically referring to NYC...which is a cesspool

I'd rather live in Mordor

An APC forum isn’t the place to ask about people’s opinions of a certain city... you’re better off just googling it or perhaps actually speaking to people who actually live there.

In my unofficial polling of New Yorkers, most love it there because they've never really been anywhere else, they don't know any better that there is a vast nation full of cheaper places, or at least places just as expensive with much better weather.

This is true of most Americans. So many never leave their town/county/state. Never mind the country. Very... limited experiences, If you will.

What's interesting is that I've been all over the country (and Canada and Mexico) as a pilot and I keep coming back to Jersey. The only other places I could see living are Chicago (possibly the most underrated big city in the US) or some places in the mountain west. Oh, and Paris if I didn't suck at French.

Paris is a tough commute.

I've been all over the country as well; Canada and Mexico too, as well as 6/7 continents.

Places I could live in?

Buenos Aires, Barcelona, and NYC.

There's a reason its the most heavily populated city in the US by far and the center of the most heavily populated region of the country. 8.6 million people can't be wrong...

This is the aboslute truth, i was born and raised in the midwest, went to school in the upper midwest and now live on the east coast, if anyone has ever flown with me, yall know how eager i am to leave this hell hole that is the eastern seaboard. but thats my bias. i thought traffic was bad, everyday items were expensive there and then moved out here now im grateful to go home.

The great thing about this country is that if you want to live on 100 acres with no other human in sight you can, or you can live in a refrigerator box on top of millions of other people.