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October 29th, 2009, 07:59 PM
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Very Motivated and All That But Basically Without a Clue
Hello all.
Okay, so my wife and I want to move to NY. I'm a jazz musician, and I played a show in NY last August. She's from London and had never seen NY so I made my gig into a vacation and she was knocked out, way beyond what I would have expected. She's a nurse, an ICU nurse at Emory hospital in Atlanta. I'm a jazz composer and drummer, semi-retired. She's already applied for her New York nursing license which she will get with no problem. She's been moving up the ladder at Emory but she really wants to live and work in New York. I've always wanted to live there. New York isn't new to me. I did my first recording session there when I was sixteen and I went to music school there. I know and have worked with a good number of New York musicians, all of whom encourage me to move up. They're a great bunch of guys. One of my best friends is a trumpet player who lives in Astoria. So there's all that. She wants to buy a place. I've been looking around all the neighborhoods on the internet and the prices are about what I would have expected for what we want, which is a three-bedroom condo or coop. Now we don't have shit for money, really. The most we could afford is, say, $290,000, tops. So what I'm asking is this: is it possible to do this without living in a gross dangerous neighborhood? Some place close to the subway? I know that we'll be looking at Queens or Brooklyn. About the Bronx I know absolutely nothing. Any input you're willing to provide would be greatly appreciated. Last edited by jazzguy; October 29th, 2009 at 11:44 PM. 
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October 31st, 2009, 12:03 AM
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Look out in Brooklyn. I believe you could find places in that range in Bay Ridge, Midwood, Kensington. Quite a few neighborhoods. Prices are the loweest I've ever seen. The tough part of buying condos is figuring the monthly maintenance into the cost.
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