Yes, but what do you get for what you pay and what are the schools like? We looked, believe me. Again, it's the kids that do it. And don't tell me about magnet schools, they're more competitive than Princeton or Yale, while private schools for two boost your p/a costs by at least $50K. We even thought about moving into the city last year when we would have have a relatively cheap (subsidized) coop inherited from J's Mom. however, my MiL timed her death badly; no way we could shoehorn all four of us into what was for NY a moderate sized two-bedroom. If only she'd held out for anothet couple of years till our daughter was out of the house . . . . or even longer, just to have had to around. Sigh.
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>
> >it is one of the
> >heartbreaks of my life thahn even at my inflated
> >salary I cannot afford to live in NYC. Specifically
> in
> >Manhattan. It's kids that are the killer.
>
> It's expensive, but not *that* expensive. The median
> HH income in my
> zip code (10024) is $98,541. (I'm here thanks to a
> rent stabilized
> apartment I've been in since 1979; I doubt I could
> afford to move in
> today.) There are good neighborhoods in Brooklyn
> with median incomes
> below yours in Evanston ($50k-ish vs. $63,994 - even
> Brooklyn Hts is
> $67,770).
>
> Doug
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