Oh yes, 39 'pokey' apartments in Manhattan. Some of which are actually under $300,000
The greater metropolitan area of New York City is 17,400km2 New York City itself is made up of five boroughs, Manhattan, The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island and has an area of 783km2.
There were 8,336,697 people living in NYC in 2012, and 18.9 million in the greater metro area in 2012.
New York famously never sleeps, the mass transit system runs 24/7, quite a lot of proper restaurants (not fast food) are open 24/7, departments stores are often open very late.
You need a reservation to visit the Apple store on Fifth Ave, even at 3 am otherwise you're in for a very long wait. I can't find any 2 bedroom dwellings under $500,000 in an area of central Sydney that is similar to Manhattan, not one, not even pokey ones.
The greater metro area of Sydney is 12,144.6km2 and had a population of 4,627,345 in 2011.
Sydney is very dead after hours, not a great deal opens 24/7.
Sydney trains don't run between approx midnight and 5am.
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LA and NY are one of the most important cities, if not the two most important cities in the world.
You can't become a big hollywood star in Sydney, and in NY your $500k will buy you an apartment right in the middle of all the action, not in some shit bogan suburb.
Add to that they've had years of money printing.
You're an idiot.
Hey friend. You are right but let's keep quiet about it. The reason them cities are great is that aspies who talk about their investment properties, like our friend here does, aint important there and don't do well there. And that makes them cities wonderful to be in. So let's not talk to much about it. Let's just say that he is right about it, so them cities are spared of the likes of he.
Heh, hadn't even noticed that, pretty underhanded seeing as doormen in Australia are usually only found in Hotels.
There are only a few apartment buildings here in Melbourne that employ a doorman, and they're usually short stay apartments.
"If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear." - Gene Roddenberry
"Balloon animals are a great way to teach children that the things they love dearly, may spontaneously explode" -- Lee Camp
Oh yes, 39 'pokey' apartments in Manhattan. Some of which are actually under $300,000
The greater metropolitan area of New York City is 17,400km2 New York City itself is made up of five boroughs, Manhattan, The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island and has an area of 783km2.
There were 8,336,697 people living in NYC in 2012, and 18.9 million in the greater metro area in 2012.
New York famously never sleeps, the mass transit system runs 24/7, quite a lot of proper restaurants (not fast food) are open 24/7, departments stores are often open very late.
You need a reservation to visit the Apple store on Fifth Ave, even at 3 am otherwise you're in for a very long wait. I can't find any 2 bedroom dwellings under $500,000 in an area of central Sydney that is similar to Manhattan, not one, not even pokey ones.
The greater metro area of Sydney is 12,144.6km2 and had a population of 4,627,345 in 2011.
Sydney is very dead after hours, not a great deal opens 24/7.
Sydney trains don't run between approx midnight and 5am.
"If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear." - Gene Roddenberry
"Balloon animals are a great way to teach children that the things they love dearly, may spontaneously explode" -- Lee Camp
$339,000There are 7, 2 bedroom dwellings that are less than $500k in an area from Sydney City down to Bondi and west to Marrickville, thats a huge area. The 4 in Ultimo are even more pokey than the ones in Harlem.
"If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear." - Gene Roddenberry
"Balloon animals are a great way to teach children that the things they love dearly, may spontaneously explode" -- Lee Camp
You know what a Co-op is don't you??? And we can forget the Harlem stuff - anything north of about 106th St - forget it.
EDIT: This topic NYC vs Sydney comes up from time to time. The only "cheap" places in NYC are in dive areas, and/or Co-ops. Typical prices per sq-ft for NYC/Manhattan proper aprartments (with proper title) are $1k up to $3k/sq-ft, depending on quality and exact location. If you want proper title, and proper ownership, and you want to live on Manhattan proper, you need to be thinking ~$1M and up for any decent 2 bed apartment. In Sydney, you can get a pretty decent place in a primo location for 2/3 that or less. For $1M you could by a 3-bed semi/terrace in most of the inner-west - an equivelant NYC property (brownstone townhouse multi-level) would be several million $$$.
Sydney property is expensive by Australian standards, but is quite a bit cheaper than NYC for equivelant location, amenity, quality etc.
Why are we forgetting Harlem? Why the geographical discrimination?
And yes, I know what a co-op is, you have to be pre screened by the board of the company that owns the building, you don't really own the apartment, you own a share in the company that owns the entire building.Just because it's a co-op doesnt make it cheap:
"If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear." - Gene Roddenberry
"Balloon animals are a great way to teach children that the things they love dearly, may spontaneously explode" -- Lee Camp
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