ANSWERS: 56
  • Yes I would. I work in NYC... and come here everyday... I am here right now. I just cannot afford it.
  • Been there, done that. I like my backyard, thanks. ^_^ Granted, I also like being able to walk EVERYWHERE... but my stretching-out space takes precedence.
  • If it was a different time in my life and I could afford to do so - Yes!
  • Lived there, and yes, I would most certainly move back to the 'Big Apple'
  • No, I love and respect New York City and it's people, but I would seriously be like a fish out of water if I lived there. I would love to visit someday however.
  • Yes. Anyway, I don't think it would move to me.
  • Certainly not, give up beauty and tranquility for dust, noise and mayhem. I will happily stay here!
  • No thanks. I wouldn't even move to York. In my book cities are for visiting and working in, not living in - far too busy and noisy for me.
  • Nope. Too cold and too crowded.
  • Absolutely. If you work in NYC and are single it is a must. I moved to NYC 3 years ago and haven't looked back. Never again will I get on a commuter railroad and spend hours a day because it is "cheaper" to live on Long Island or New Jersey or Westchester, etc. I say, no children and you work in Manhattan, you cannot afford NOT to move here. You only live once. You can always get money again, you will never get this part of your life again. Let me know when you start looking for an apartment!
  • If you blinded me and gagged me, plugged my nose up I'd still not want to move there. I'm a nature girl:-)
  • no. seeing it from my town is worse enough.
  • I did once. I lived in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. I enjoyed everything about it except the alternate side of the street parking rules. I HATED having to remember to move my car all the time!
  • Yes I would I visited NYC in December and loved it. My cousin lives there, and I would love to stay with her.
  • as soon as i turn eighteen
  • I live in New York rite now. It's a great place. New York is not just a conjested city. We do have quite nieghborhoods. lol. It's a great place. Kinda expensive though.
  • I would love to move to NYC. I have visited and love everything about it.
  • Yes. In a heart beat. I almost did 7 years ago. The job fell through at the last minute. I had signed papers and everything.
  • If you are single and you are coming to make money....yes! otherwise, don't even think about it....
  • Hell no!! Its a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there,lol. I grew up in Long Island (Suffolk County)and my folks moved us up to the Catskill Mountains, its only an hour and a half ride to NYC anyway and why would I want to go back and live in a rat race, when its beautiful in the country, I like the fact that I don't have people living right on top of me and I have a grass backyard, not concrete or pavement. Your more then welcome to keep in touch with the catskill mountain FYI at http://mtnsportlive.com/
  • Okay as a New Yorker, born & raised, I have to say there is no place like it so I encourage all to at least visit. Don't knock it if you ain't tried it! But not everyone is cut out to live in New York anyway. Little FYI...New York City is actually the name for the combined 5 boroughs, so growing up in Queens I can say that I LIVE in NYC but if your question refers to Manhattan specifically, then I would, without a doubt, love to actually reside in that particular boro!!
  • I've lived in New York City for fifteen years, and for anyone who can imagine they might like it then they're probably more than right. I've visited a whole bunch of cities over the years, and there really is no place like NYC. I think it's something to do with being crammed onto an island -- it doesn't just fade slowly into suburbs on all sides like LA or Chicago -- it's either big buildings and tight streets or you're on a bridge to an outer borough. But there's a downside too. My *completely* inappropriate analogy is that living in New York is like a heroin habit - you think it's all cool at first, but you don't really realized how much it's taking out of you until it's too late, and by then it's really hard to quit. Personally, after fifteen years I'm ready to move to the suburbs. But then I'd have to own a car... But there would be trees and grass... But I couldn't walk downstairs and get ice cream at 2:00am... But I'd have a whole house... But I couldn't take the subway to the Knitting Factory... But... Is there a New York City rehab anywhere?
  • Never.
  • no way I'm a small town guy
  • Maybe, I'd like to visit first. Then we'll see if they're ready for me:)
  • NO, too expensive.
  • Yeah without a second thought! :)
  • absolutly i love it there im planning on moving there in a few years and i cant wait its so full of culture and theres so much to experience deffinatly a great place to live
  • In a New York minute.
  • In a heartbeat, if I could afford it.
  • Not if it were free for all of eternity.
  • I have lived 90 miles above NYC for the last 10 years and have been ONE TIME. I just cannot understand why people would want to live one on top of the other like that.
  • I'd move there in a heartbeat. Not for life...but for years and years though.
  • It depends upon what my salary was. It would be an interesting experience.
  • Yep! I love the big apple but being a nurse I could not afford it!
  • I'm fittin'a
  • no, I already live here!
  • Too close to my soon-to-be-ex-husband! I don't want to be that close to where he lives.
  • In a heartbeat, if I had oooodles of money.
  • I have lived here all my life and never want to move out. I love NYC. :]
  • Only if I had a job there. I'm sure I could become a New Yorker quickly.
  • Don't they shoot hillbillies there? That's what i heard :)
  • Yes. I probably will after living in Seattle and before Tokyo.
  • I wanna move out.
  • Possibly. I'd love to live there for say 6 months or a year. I'd consider permenantly moving there if I was moving there with a friend or bf/hubby and not on my own (been there, it can be really lonely by yourself in a big city, but different for everyone). And of course, only if I could afford it lol.
  • Being born and stuck yes stuck here for 47 years,it's the most expensive place and most taxed placed ever to live. Nuts are bosses, Idiots run the place , it's a good place to visit but I have to get out of here.. Fox700
  • WOW... You know, I was born and raised in Manhattan. For the life of me, I really don't get how you all say "I love living there! But it's so expensive!" Expense is what fuel's my distaste for Manhattan! The Mayor is an absentee scumbag who's an excellent self-promoter who is always trying to get blood from the stones in your wallet! The MAYOR BLOWS. The cops are poorly educated IDIOTS. And the city populated by clueless idiots who've all just recently migrated here in a sorry effort to try and get rich, but end up with a high probability of being homeless because they're quick to accept everything they're spoon fed. It used to be worth it to live here. Not any more. There. DR me.
  • MANY NYU students end up homeless because of the expensive culture shock. If you move here, you'd better have a strong back up plan for pulling out.
  • No" theres 2 many people in the big apple!
  • NO, would hate the traffic
  • I have never been, but are the roomers true you can get mugged , and robed very easily and often ?
  • I prefer living in Brooklyn to Manhattan, though all 5 boroughs are considered NYC. I think Brooklyn is amazing, and I am happy everyday that I live here now.
  • Does Boston count ?
  • I was just there for labor day weekend. I lived in Brooklyn 3050 Fulton Street back in 68-74. I really did not remember how amazing this city really is and how many people are there. This is my second time back in 20 years. I enjoyed it everday I was there! But of course a weekend in NYC is not the same as living and working there all year. I would definitely do it for a year or two and see how it makes me feel. You can't say you love a place until you have lived there at least one year to experience all 4 seasons as well as the culture. Also you have to keep in mind that in big cities what counts is the people and architectural surroundings. Whereas in rural country areas what counts is the natural surroundings and the people.
  • It all depends from where?
  • Do as Baz Luhrmann says in his song.... "Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard"

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