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thats absolutely out of control, thats why so many new yorkers i know have moved to different parts of europe, less crime, less rent and more beauty haha

It's also expensive outside of Manhattan. It's really nuts; you have to chase money to live there. Same thing in SF. I don't know how it is now, but where I grew up in Brooklyn, you could potentially get a lot more for less. You have to specifically avoid like Williamsburg or Park Slope.