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[goodcow]

So, we originally lived in house #1 for several years... we moved across the street to house #2.

We lived in house #2 for about eight years... then my family decided to move to Hawaii. I moved into house #3 a few blocks away with my best friend.

My family hates Hawaii. They came back to New York to visit for Thanksgiving and to look for an apartment to move back into. First they tried Manhattan. $3195 for a two bedroom.

Then, they decided on house #4. A block away from our place before they moved to Hawaii. (they've put a bid on the house, we'll see if they win it and what becomes of me later on)

Only I could end up living in four different houses within a five block radius over the course of fifteen years or so...

 

[BigJonsson]

Heh
My family has moved once in my lifetime
We moved around the corner basically
And the funny thing is that my sister's best friend lives in our old house

I have almost no memory of the old house though

 

[cubanb]

whats wrong with hawaii?

 

[goodcow]

whats wrong with hawaii?

Nice place to visit, but wouldn't want to live there.

I didn't move to Hawaii with them because I knew I'd hate it. I know I'll never be able to leave New York, not only because of my dislike of cars (so I need to rely on public transportation), but simply because it's New York. There's nowhere else in America like it.

 

[RedDwarf]

Only I could end up living in four different houses

You're going to move back in with them?

 

[goodcow]

You're going to move back in with them?

I don't know what to do yet.

Paying $500 a month right now to my best friend of ten years' father for rent is really shitty to me.

Alternatively, I could probably afford a place on my own for $700 a month, but it wouldn't leave me with much left after that.

I only work 20 hours a week because I have school.

If I moved back in, I'd have a side entrance this time and an entire basement, and I could save up $5,000 or so not paying rent, and then move out a year later and use that savings to offset the increase of my current $500 to $700 or $800.

Anyone have any suggestions?

 

[cubanb]

Seems like a no brainer that you should move back. You'll save a good amount of cash and you get the basement with your own entrance. It doesn't sound like you would be there too long. unless you are holding back some negatives, it seems you should move back with your family.

 

[goodcow]

Seems like a no brainer that you should move back. You'll save a good amount of cash and you get the basement with your own entrance. It doesn't sound like you would be there too long. unless you are holding back some negatives, it seems you should move back with your family.

Well my father is overbearing and annoying, and I don't like having to deal with him. That in and ofitself makes me debate this, plus after living on my own for about six months it'll be odd...

 

[cubanb]

my moms the same way, but if you were to be in the basement would you have a lot of privacy? it sounds like you would run into your father mostly when grabbing a bite to eat and things like that. I guess it all depends on the level of freedom/privacy the basement would give you.

I know I won't move back into my parents house, because its small and they have no basement!

 

[RedDwarf]

I know that once I moved out the thought of moving back home made me shudder and promise myself I never would. But that's me.

 

[FortNinety]

Where do you live goodcow? LI?

 

[goodcow]

Where do you live goodcow? LI?

Bellerose, Queens.

 

[goodcow]

*UPDATE*

Apparently they are indeed moving to Manhattan now, because they found out the hospital my stepmom will work at subsidizes the rent to about $2000 a month.

So it would be:

- Me, my father, my stepmom, my sister
- Two bedroom in Manhattan (I believe York Ave)
- I would get the master bedroom
- I would pay no rent

So, this is Manhattan. Great. But an even greater lack of privacy than me living in a basement with them.

Now I really don't know what the hell to do.

 

[Manabanana]

I know that once I moved out the thought of moving back home made me shudder and promise myself I never would. But that's me.

He knows. I've only been out for 4 months, but my parents came by and visited for a fews and that was odd. I'm going home for a week and some change for the holidays, and I don't how it'll be. I'm so used to living in a city with a solid public transit system and the freedom that comes with that living with my parents in Indianapolis for a week might be a bit too much. I say don't move back in.

 

[element]

i dont know how people can live in NYC with prices so high :\

 

[Iceman]

my family moved about 20 times in the first 20 years of my life.

 

[belgurdo]

Move to Indianapolis. Rent's cheap in most places, and most people here desparately want this city to be New York. :lol

 

[DarienA]

i dont know how people can live in NYC with prices so high :\

Depends on what you do for a living for white collar folk it's one of the reasons salaries are skewed so high.

 

[levious]

Nice place to visit, but wouldn't want to live there.

I didn't move to Hawaii with them because I knew I'd hate it. I know I'll never be able to leave New York, not only because of my dislike of cars (so I need to rely on public transportation), but simply because it's New York. There's nowhere else in America like it.

Are you gonna bitch about heaven too?

 

[All Hail C-Webb]

*UPDATE*

Apparently they are indeed moving to Manhattan now, because they found out the hospital my stepmom will work at subsidizes the rent to about $2000 a month.

So it would be:

- Me, my father, my stepmom, my sister
- Two bedroom in Manhattan (I believe York Ave)
- I would get the master bedroom
- I would pay no rent

So, this is Manhattan. Great. But an even greater lack of privacy than me living in a basement with them.

Now I really don't know what the hell to do.

I live in Manhattan with my family, and I'm counting the days untill I have enough money to get out. I really hate living with my family, we have a tiny 2 bedroom,I share a room with my younger brother, and there are a million rules. You would have your own bedroom though, and if your parents respect a closed door, and don't make stupid rules, then Manhattan really is the place to be.

 

[Azih]

Wait wait, you're going to be living with 4 people in a 2 bedroom apt. not pay rent AND you get a room to yourself? the master bedroom no less? What the hey? Is your sister going to sleep on the couch?, the bathtub?

 

[goodcow]

Wait wait, you're going to be living with 4 people in a 2 bedroom apt. not pay rent AND you get a room to yourself? the master bedroom no less? What the hey? Is your sister going to sleep on the couch?, the bathtub?

This is basically what occured in our other two bedroom.

I had the big bedroom, my stepsister had the slightly smaller bedroom. They converted the living room into basically another bedroom for my parents.

 

[shuri]

2000$US a month. Even the trendy spots in Montreal dont cost half of that. This is pathetic.

 

[All Hail C-Webb]

2000$US a month. Even the trendy spots in Montreal dont cost half of that. This is pathetic.

$2000 is extremely cheap for a 2 bedroom in Manhattan. Most doorman buildings charge a least $3000 a month for a 2 bedroom.

 

[Manabanana]

Are you gonna bitch about heaven too?

Hawaii is a shitty place to live. All the tourists treat the place (depending on the island, obviously) like a disposable good time. They don't give a shit about the place. They're loud, rowdy, and obnoxious. They litter and have no respect for the people or surroundings. Most of the natives fucking hate the tourists.

 

[FortNinety]

Hawaii is a shitty place to live. All the tourists treat the place (depending on the island, obviously) like a disposable good time. They don't give a shit about the place. They're loud, rowdy, and obnoxious. They litter and have no respect for the people or surroundings. Most of the natives fucking hate the tourists.

Sounds like living in NYC actually.

 

[Limedust]

I spent a week on Big Island (the largest, but most back-wooded of all the Hawaiian islands), and I could entirely see myself living there. To each his own, though I understand if you were speaking of the actual tourist islands, where I don't have any interest in visiting either.

 

[goodcow]

$2000 is extremely cheap for a 2 bedroom in Manhattan. Most doorman buildings charge a least $3000 a month for a 2 bedroom.

It is $3000 or so, but with the subsidized rent from the hospital my stepmom will be working at it'll be $2000 or so.

I'm confused though, is a two-bedroom automatically a convertible three? And why is a junior four called that, with a larger number, when it's only one bedroom?

My guess is they've got a convertible three, so me and my stepsister would get the bedrooms, and they'd divide the dining room (since we never eat together anyway) into a third bedroom with a wall.

 

[levious]

Hawaii is a shitty place to live. All the tourists treat the place (depending on the island, obviously) like a disposable good time. They don't give a shit about the place. They're loud, rowdy, and obnoxious. They litter and have no respect for the people or surroundings. Most of the natives fucking hate the tourists.

I lived on a farmhouse in Hawaii for five years, it's the best place on earth.