NYC is Forcing People to Leave Brooklyn… Forever 

My frustration comes from the, "You can save by getting a roommate" part. I wasn't saving with 2 roommates. That was all I could afford. "You only need to earn $60,000/year" to SHARE an apt (typically with a stranger). Most (childless & single) people over the age of 30 do not want roommates. This roommate agenda is greed.

Any discussion on home and rental prices should include Blackrock, State Street, and Vanguard. These companies should be banned from buying property.

I was born and raised in NYC. I swore i would never leave, but i have to admit that NY has lost it's essence. It's always been more expensive than other cities, but this has gotten way out of hand. The NY i once knew no longer exist, it hurt me to leave my city. On a brighter side I'm able to save more money and overall happier since i left.

This is insane. This should not even be legal to do to someone. This is happening where I live too. They're buying up all the houses in my town, so they can sell the property at triple the rate. I get constant calls to sell my property. So what happens when the whole country is homeless? So sad.

Born and bred in NYC. I left in 2009 when my stablized Maiden Lane apt with view of the bridge and tall ships hit $1600. In 2012 that bldg became condemned for a year after Sandy. It was a great place to live, I realized I couldn’t ever live in NYC again. It’s weird to be priced out of the place you are born and where all of your family is.

I know this is big to New Yorkers, but the size of these apartments are truly sad. The fact that most place can’t have company or just a normal living space is dismal.

this is a reality not only to New Yorkers but for people around the globe. I live in Sao Paulo, Brazil and the same thing happens here too. I am 27 yo and i still live with my parents, however i am trying to save as much as I can to move out but until then no way I am moving out, paying for expensive food, rent, gas and clothing, and not living a life is hell.

I was born and raised in Brooklyn. People used to call it a place that no one would want to live. All of a sudden there’s different nationalities moving into Brooklyn and these private developers are raising rent in areas where people didn’t even wanna live. That building across from the one that you were looking at it’s either a NYC HOUSING connect building where the rent is based on income or it is a shelter. Trust me.

People really need to hold accountable their politicians, not just gentrification, for allowing this atrocity to go on for decades. They went against our best interests and sold us out to the developers.

As a native New Yorker, I find this triggering. This is why I had to leave NY. I live in Tulsa now and pay $1400 for a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom with a yard, garage, attic, shed and 1500 square feet! I loved NYC but too many factors pushed me out. My peace of mind means a lot to me.

I’m so happy I left nyc when I did that was over 8 years ago and my family thought I was crazy for just up and leaving and even then I was working two jobs and living with my mom and sister in a small two bed room apartment but I couldn’t do it anymore and I didn’t want to be living check to check like I saw my family and friends doing. Now I’m in Arizona and I couldn’t be happier it’s definetly gotten more expensive here in these last couple years I’ve been in but still no where near how nyc is, nyc just isn’t worth it, there’s so many places in the world you can get so much more for so much less 🙏🏾

As a San Franciscan, I literally cannot believe nyc rent can be THAT MUCH HIGHER than my city’s, which is already quite high. Manhattan is now maybe 60% more expensive than SF

I saw my parents get evicted many times as a kid in new york, and of course my child brain at the time always found it exciting to go somewhere new, with out realizing what was actually happening. Hell, we even lived in a freezer room rented out to us for 300 a month for a short period of time. I think it’s time to leave new york. As a goal, I’m going to clear my debts, move out to buy a house, and leave my job for something fully remote while doing side hustles like freelance and running a youtube channel like you have. I hope everyone here in the comments, and folks in new york can find some version of that for themselves. Just let NYC rot, and stop depending on it. I had to claw my way out of section 8 and low income housing because I did not want to get comfortable under that for a single second.

The added issue is when you're scraping by trying to afford NYC rent, you're not left with a lot of savings (if any) to afford the cost of moving to a cheaper place somewhere outside of the city. For instance, most places want a first month/last month up front. So you end up feeling trapped.

I left NY for NJ in 2012 for a new job…. Thank God that opportunity arose for me because I have no clue how I would be able to sustain myself living in NY today. Unfortunately, now there are many people moving to NJ because it’s more affordable than Brooklyn so obviously the prices here are also rising rapidly (sigh)

You should move to Allentown or Harrisburg, PA & buy a 2,000 sq. ft. townhouse with 3 bedrooms for around $200K. The home will need work, but many of them have the original parquet wood floors, mouldings, and features, and would be worth the work. Those homes may also have a front parking space, a small backyard and a basement.

I lived in Brooklyn for close to 6 years and recently moved out of my $1,750 one bedroom railroad apartment. After our lease was up the landlord decided to raise the rent close to $2,300. Needless to say we did not renew. I now live in Jersey City while still commuting to work in Brooklyn.

I had to move out of Brooklyn in 2019. I could not afford the $1800 for a one bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. I searched in Queens. I could not find anything in my budget. I moved to upstate New York at the end of September 2019. It was a great decision.

I saw this apartment on zillow. It's too expensive for me.🥺 Just a 1 bed room is $1800! I don't want to live with roommates. My own mother was a roommate and she is my worst roommate.😡

This is mind blowing to me. I live in Georgia about 45 minutes south of Atlanta and I pay less than $900 per month for my four bedroom, two bathroom, 1,900 square foot house on half an acre that I own.

I'm just going to let you all know that this is NOT a typical apartment in Brooklyn. Many of the places that are somewhat "affordable" are not renovated. I'm a native NY'er and the renters market has been horrible!!! I spent months looking for an apartment under $1,700. It was soo bad that I had to move to Jersey City. Now I have to commute to Manhattan.

This does NOT surprise me. Here's what happens. Manhattan got too expensive, people went to Brooklyn, then Brooklyn got expensive because everybody moved there. No matter where you go, as soon as a place becomes "hot" then greed takes over and everything gets expensive. It's happening to the Bronx right now it's also happening to Florida and it will happen anyplace people run to.

Hi i am from Guyana south America Georgetown lapenitance i look at your video very interesting keep up the good work that is why i can't live there very hard

As a NYC resident I've been checking rents consistently. 5600 a month is the average rent for Manhattan where the rich live. In the other boroughs the average rent is between 2000 and 3000. I also check other cities and a lot of places now (they used to be cheaper) have rents that are similiar.

Gosh, it just keeps on getting worse. Folks who moved out to Brooklyn are going to be forced to move further out. How can people in low paid jobs even consider such high rents. People who work in retail, hospitality etc in Manhattan are being forced out from there and will have to seek alternate employment in an affordable area. So will shops, bars etc have to close due to lack of staff?

you're better than a lot of actual news for info and context

No mention of tenants not paying rent during Covid . Landlords didn’t have the luxury of not having to pay tax on the property

another elephant in the room in NYC is that there are many people not paying rent because landlords in NYC are helpless

I was born in Brooklyn in 80 and raised... the GENTRIFICATION BROKE my heart and I moved in the mid 2000s... I love my home but I dont recognize it anymore. My ppl started to be pushed out of Brooklyn back in the 90s when Juliani took office. The home of Biggie... the home of Jay Z... its very sad to me what has happened there. 😢 6:25 Not than ever before... its now affecting all the TRANSPLANTS. But native NYkers were priced out long time ago. We were pushed out to make room for the gentrifiers... now I guess even the hipsters are now being priced out.

Don't know what I'd do if I hadn't left NYC 25 years ago. After a slow trek northward over the years, I am settled in a rural area hundreds of miles away. I watch these vids to remind myself that no matter what happens, I made the right choice for myself. There are great memories of my former life before I left, and I'm glad for the experience, but knew when it was time to move on. Chuck in Northern New England

"recent renovation" on a ground floor/basement = recently flooded

This is happening all over America . These huge increases in Rents are putting strains on Families everywhere . With Homes being almost totally Unaffordable for the Middle Class . Rents will only continue rising across the Country .

As a NYer born and raised here. It is not worth it to move here. I am always contemplating leaving this city for good. It is sad because I am one of the last people in my family to stay here as my parents sold my childhood home that has been in our family for 3 generations. My dad's aunt came from the Dominican Republic and ran her doctor's office out of it then she sold it to my dad at a very affordable price unfortunately none of my siblings or I could’ve kept it or maintained it and my family was struggling so the house was a good way to make some money for when my father retired. Ever since then, I have been hopping around from neighborhood to neighborhood. Finally, I settled in Harlem where I live with my sister and my girlfriend. The rent wasn’t bad when we first moved here but it keeps going up every year and eventually, we are going to have to move again. Don't come, it is not worth it, move to a major city near you or a smaller more affordable city near you. Build up the community and the culture in the small city near you, it probably needs it. NY is oversaturated, honestly, it is not even cool anymore. Everything is an overpriced gimmick and extremely cringe. The people you will meet will be out-of-towners who will only be friends with you if they can use you if not they are stuck up. It literally feels like the worst people come here, which makes sense because it is a bunch of rich privileged a-holes who can afford this insanely expensive city.

My 85 year old aunt is one of the many leaving. She has lived in Brooklyn for about 71 years and lived at her current resident for about 50. She was going to renew her lease but these crazy people want her to pay a deposit equal to her newly increased monthly rent, along with the increased monthly rent for the apartment she has lived in for 50 years!! Her and her husband live in the apartment. He unfortunately went blind and is now on disability and she is retired and they are both on fixed incomes. They will be moving out of state to live with her daughter until they can find affordable housing.

I am a Brooklyn landlord. Here is why rents went up 25% over a very short time: in 2018 if you were looking for a Brooklyn apartment, half of the available apartments were rent stabilized units. In 2019 new rent laws passed removing all incentive for stabilized landlords to rent their apartments. So now not only do you have less availability, but those that are available are free market! In addition, it will only get worse! As tenants with stabilized apartments move out or pass away...those apartments will be deliberately be kept off the market. This will cause an additional strain on the available apartments. I saw this coming back in 2019. Every landlord saw it coming. Only the city with their stupid idea of hurting landlords didn't see this coming. Landlords are protesting against these laws by getting out of the landlord game. You can't loose if you don't play. As a landlord, I can't blame them and would do the same if I was in their shoes.

I’m A New Yorker and what we pay for what we get is insane…we pay thousands to live in a box.

The fact they think that apartment looks nice is INSANE. People have truly lost their minds.

I live in Arizona, in a low-income apartment facing the mountains, with free water all for $255 a month because I am disabled. I consider myself extremely lucky and would never return to New York even if the apartment was free. Getting out was the best decision I ever made.

Wow! I Am glad I live in Canada. Thanks for sharing Brother 😀 👍 ❤️ 💯

People would rather go homeless than down size and move to the country side. Where i am you can rent a 2 bedroom house for $400 a month I cant imagine paying over $3000 for a room that can barely be considered a studio apartment.

I left Manhattan 23 years ago for a tiny, run down former summer bungalow on the Westchester/Putnam border. I had to learn how to drive at age 54. A relative gave me an old junk car which I drove for 6 months before it fell apart. I got a car loan for a new car, a new job 20 miles away. I learned how to drive through snow without having a nervous breakdown. I saved money by buying used clothes, used furniture, and even got a used dog from a shelter. Within the first ten years of home ownership I had to replace the roof, the furnace, the septic, the hot water tank, the holding tank for the water that came up from the well, the bathroom, half of the kitchen and all the outside doors. But guess what? I couldn't be happier living up here in the country.

That apartment is twice my mortgage in NC; which in turn is twice, if not (3-4)X more than my parents. There are a ton of NY and CA transplants in my area now. I'm grateful I got my own home now.

His coverage of NY is BETTER than..the "Lying Mainstream Media".... which I no longer...watch. Only the "Independent RU-vidrs" get my viewership.and I'm a 67 year old Black.B1$

I've been watching your videos for a couple weeks I enjoy your content and I like how you got personal with your audience by showing your home I decided to sub today and I don't sub to many channels so good luck man!

I was born and raised in Brooklyn. They've been coming since the late 90s. Before the pandemic. Before remote work. Brooklyn was cheaper, cooler, less stuck up and the apartments were bigger. I got priced out of Brooklyn almost ten years ago. A lot of apartments were deregulated. I miss Brooklyn. Everything is going up but our salaries. If you can afford $4500/month, you can afford to move someplace cheaper. I'm trying to save up to leave.

Cash- The high prices for housing in New York are ridiculous. I just read an article yesterday that stated 500,000 people have left NYC in the last year alone- due to the housing crisis. I think one thing that has been an issue is their lack of focus on Foreign dollars buying real estate in the US. If you look back further you will see a pattern of NYC costs sky rocketing since the 1990’s. With the unimaginable amount of refugees being sent to NYC ( which is the stupidest place they are being sent) All that is happening is panic pricing. The more new construction and competition is driving up costs while sucking resources away from the citizens and lining the pockets of those already wealthy. I think this is another exceptional piece of advice and reality check everyone needs to see. You are doing a great job! Keep going!☮️👏👏👏👏

Hope you stay in NYC. Even if it’s just so that we can keep getting you awesome reports! Was just in NY to see Billy Joel at MSG. Had a great time!

Great video💯

It’s not just New York, it’s the whole country. We’re just seeing more drastic changes in New York City because it is a big city with lots of people so more complaints come out of it in the end. Here in Boulder the implemented a sugar tax (12 cents per fluid ounce) and then Colorado LOST its title as healthiest state in America.

It’s insane that you can make in the low six figures (which used to be considered a great salary), and you might not be able to find (or get approved) for a place to live! I am a native New Yorker and I have never seen rents skyrocket like this!

I just moved to NYC in August, I have 3 roommates and I live in the Bronx so thankfully my portion of rent is relatively affordable, but I feel like I got mad lucky. I moved here for a job before continuing grad school but, despite how much I love the city, I'm really scared about what the housing market may look like by the end of my lease (our rent is not stabilized). My roommates and I are already talking about adding another roommate or two - so possibly 5/6 people in a 4-bedroom apartment - just to keep it affordable. I feel like if you stay hopeful and get lucky you can/should live here if your heart's set on it but the idea of living alone in NYC is unrealistically delusional at this point.

I feel your pain… my husband was transferred to the nyc office and we saw 40 apts before making a decision between manhattan, brooklyn and jersey city. Turns out we decided to live by the water in jersey city, it’s still not cheap but you get something better / bigger for your money and also get a quick commute to manhattan.

Thank you Cash for being so transparent on how your living situation is.. As a fellow Brooklynite the cost of living is crazy and honestly I never thought it would be like this I downsized and moved back with my parents at their house and just saving but in all honesty I probably wouldn’t live in NYC anymore

It's not just happening in NY- it's everywhere. I had to move away from a big city in Europe where I went to university and spent 10 years of my life, because they refused to do any upkeep in a 120+ old appartment (think: leakages, mold, etc.) and it was becoming unliveable. Plus the lease was temporary (turned out to be illegal, but only found out too late). If you want a liveable appartment in a big city, it's unafforable, if your place is rent-controlled, it's often still way too expensive, they don't give a f* and there is no upkeep. Housing should not be an investment opportunity or a way to get rich. Housing should be a right.

It irks me how that real estate agent thinks a one bedroom over $3,100 is a deal lmao. Thats absolutely bonkers. I live in Bay Ridge Brooklyn and pay under $1,800 for a big apartment with great lighting and high ceilings.

Two words why this is happening: Greedy Landlords

My first Apartment was $140.00 in 1972 @ 1715 Union Street, Brooklyn. I lived on the 3rd floor. Curious to know what the price is today. Don’t know where people are supposed to live with these crazy rents. I would move back to New York, but I would have to be a multi millionaire to afford anything decent. I see that even Queens is becoming unaffordable!! Keep up the good work! Thank you for showcasing New York!

It's not just NYC. I'm in a small town in Ohio. When I was getting divorced four years ago, I had no trouble qualifying for a mortgage that gave me a decent choice. No mansions, but decent, small houses in decent areas. My attorney advised me not to buy at that time, given how contentious the divorce was, primarily. So I found an apartment. I'll probably never qualify for a mortgage again - and my income has increased since then. I love this apartment, and would happily stay here long term, but I've been told the rent could go up as much as thirty percent next year. I can't afford to stay, but I can't find anywhere I can afford to go. At sixty, I don't see retirement EVER being a realistic possibility. I don't know what anyone anywhere is supposed to do.

I think you should move to another city and show it off so we know where to move next since you're basically a real estate consultant with the knowledge you know and a lifestyle consultant having lived in NY for so long. Especially with two kids, a lot of people would be happy to get advice from you knowing where they can find a 1. a city they don't have to compromise on their life, 2. a place that's affordable, 3. that's suitable for kids😅

I love you brother you are on top of the problems. how come people are not losing their mind and cool.

Gentrification has become a massive issue all over the country but in NY it is on steroids I’m a NY native grew up in the Bronx and the prices are insane native have been pushed out to make room for well to do transplants that have destroyed the soul and culture of our city and to be honest channels like this is adding fuel to the fire

As a senior citizen with about $9,000 a year Social Security income this apartment situation in New York is absurd to me.

This is so sad, but if I can add. It’s happening here in Fort Worth too

Respect for this new type of content

I moved out of NY years ago for this very reason. As much as I loved living in NY, I wanted to buy a house and that wasn't an attainable goal. It's actually easier to live in NY as a single person willing to live minimally with several roommates than a family trying to come up with $6000/month rent. It's ridiculous.

I left London late 90s and now own a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom, 2 reception room, front & rear courtyards, large kitchen & dining room. The property cost me £160k…..the same property in London costs approx £500K

Politicians sold us out to real estate developers and companies it’s disgusting that a house 20yrs ago was about 300k in bklyn today that same house that needs to be gutted is 1.2million to 1.5 million it’s sickening nobody salaries went up how are we supposed to live

I’ll tell you being a PA resident. Cash, move to PA. You can buy a nice house in many parts of this state for what you’re paying in rent and you’d have a lot more space. There’s mountains, rivers, there’s fresh air and there is nature. Wherever you are in this state, you’re not far from big cities like Philly, Pittsburgh, and Lancaster. The winters aren’t horrible unless you live north of interstate 80, they’re actually fairly mild. If you move to central PA, you can be close to State College which is a happening and growing area. To outsiders, PA has a terrible stigma. I personally think it’s the perfect mix of urban and rural. There’s so much more here than people think and it’s well worth researching

That apartment is a bargain even by Brooklyn rates, and it probably will be rented tomorrow. Those of us that have followed Cash for several years can remember when Brooklyn was almost affordable by servers and store clerks, but now apartments there are becoming out of sight. If the "average" apartment now requires a $224,000 income, there can't be enough units for the below-average income workers. No, I would not move to NYC under any circumstances. Maybe life in affordable cities wouldn't be as exciting, but it wouldn't impoverish me.

This is terrible how they treat us Americans. The prices are ridiculous.

Am planing to move to new york for the first tym so i like this video coz its enlighting

Westchester County and take the train into the city …we did that for a bit but now live in NJ Those prices are insane… great video…. Nice editing and research…

Native NY'ers have even left....forever. I live in a smallish town in a southern state and the amount of native NY'ers I meet DAILY is insane. These are the people that 'would never leave', the people born and raised, generations of them, in places like Bensonhurst and Bay Ridge. None of them I met have any intentions of ever going back, most of them express extreme disgust for what their home has become.

This is a great eye-opening video. I have lived in Brooklyn all my life. After living in 2 rent-stabilized apartments, I decided that co-op living was best for me. Co-ops are not profit-making entities. In a co-op, the maintenance costs do not shoot through the roof and they don't rise as quickly as rents in non-co-op apartments. Shareholders/Boards have a say in the maintenance cost increase amounts. In my experience, as long as the property is well maintained and the corporation continuously maintains a healthy Reserve Fund through regular small maintenance increases, the living experience has been favorable.

During the 1970s I owned an apartment building in Williamsburg Brooklyn New York. I sold it in 2000 and left the United States. Property taxes was another reason why I left the United States.

I used to have family in NYC who left not too long ago. Some of them lived in slumlord apartments. They hated it but they paid really cheap rent which kept them in the city working and saving up to leave eventually. I think that NYC is meant only for the rich if you really want to enjoy it and not live in a trashy area or barely affording a decent clean apartment. I don't know how much longer the working class can stay there. Eventually the rich won't even be able to find local people to do repairs or to clean their expensive apartments and businesses.

Two years ago we moved into a big beautiful apartment in Bay Ridge Brooklyn. One bedroom for $1675. Two years later, our rent has increased to over $1800. And even signing the two year lease this time, I was shocked to see how much it had gone up. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, my family is mostly all here, but these prices are really starting to worry me. We might not be able to afford it soon 😢

Not much has changed. I grew up in Brooklyn and when I became an adult in the '90s I couldn't afford to live there either (except in extremely dangerous areas which are now beautiful). So I had to move to Staten Island which was a little bit cheaper. When I bought my first house, the rates had come down and I got a mortgage at "only" 8.125%. Later I realized NYC is just an expensive rat race so I moved south.

The rent been to damn high for over a decade and pushed me out to NJ because the new landlord raised the rent $400, and for what?? The same space?? Funny thing is my commute to Manhattan was 5 mins shorter than BK and I was paying the same amount for a 2 BR townhouse that they wanted for the apt I had in BK for over 13 years.

Plus, what the landlords are offering for so much money is very small living arrangements. The bedrooms are so small that you can't get a king size bedroom set into them. The kitchens are also very small. You can't turn around in them. Some baths only offer showers with not bathtubs.

I live in Montreal. It has a the same population as Philadelphia. It quite dense with a big downtown, a metro system and bus lines that go everywhere. Cost of living was really cheap but it went up quite drastically in the last five years. I'm lucky to have a 1 bedroom apt that cost only 595$ (432$ US) with a full kitchen, nice bedroom and a big living room, hardwood floors, 11ft cealings, two balconies and a grass backyard in a quiet neighborhood 25 yards away from a big park along the St-Lawrence river. The only problem is that as the second french city in the world besides Paris, you might need to learn French for better job opportunities. I love New York but Montreal could be a second best if you can tolerate long winters.

As a born and raised Brooklynite who is also a 90s baby millennial, I've been complaining about this for years. Even back in 2016 when I would voice my concerns about gentrification and all of these nepo trust-fund babies moving to my neighborhood and Brooklyn in general, I was met with a lot of criticism and pushback by said "liberal and progressive" nepo babies and just brushed off as bitter. The ones who were all about "dismantling systems" and "anti-capitalism" were taking the corporate greed bait. I had a right to be frustrated given that even back then I was unable to move out of my family home despite being educated and working two jobs. Now in 2023, these so-called progressive transplants (who wanted a hip and trendy place to live that used to be majority black and brown) are complaining about rent and not being able to afford life right now. The writing was on the wall for over a decade but now that it affects them we have to address it.

Very informative

Great video! What about Queens? Thanks

Although I am a transplant, I moved to NYC 25 years ago, towards the end of the 90’s.. right before 9/11… I had visited at least a dozen times before that and kinda feel like I got to catch a glimpse and experience the charm and character that has been now almost completely phased out of the city. There were street performers and traveling musicians.. I have not seen anyone with their guitar on their back for a very long time. Just as a small metaphor. I kinda have that gentrified white girl look about me but, I’m considered by locals to be more of a staple, especially in the downtown area. As I aged and now in my early 40s, I started to fall more in love with my authentic hippy at heart true self, which at its core does not exactly fit into the manhattan scene anymore. Even in the early 2000’s it was still super eclectic and unique. People say it’s this “culturally diverse melting pot” but, please understand multi ethnicity is not the only factor in making s place diverse. Cultural diversity involves people from all different classes.. not just finance bros and trust fund kids weaves in with the rent stabilized minimum wage old timers. Nyc is now loosing everything that is in between the two. A place is no longer that interesting without an abundance of dynamics. Struggling artists etc are no longer able to afford it, so, what is truly left of the cities “unique charm” aside from it being walkable and aesthetically pleasing? For me what still pulls me in is the geography of it. Being able to walk around everywhere with so much life around me. I’m still there monthly for a part time job while I’m finishing some final details on a new career elsewhere.. it’s extremely bittersweet and it still does feel electric but, a place like that cannot exist the way it’s been so famously known for without it’s mix of people. I left in ‘21 and before I did I would do “forbidden” things like purposely wear flip flops to the deli since that’s a big fashion no no. I obviously would not wear flip flops all over town since it’s dirty but, it was funny to kinda rebel against such s highly fashion conscious place. Last month I wore my pjs to the deli ha. Ironically for my work I kind of have to “look the part”.. and I’m the only one that knows I feel so out of place amongst this elitist culture. I definitely resonate more with like, mom and pop old school business owners that I know and just more every day people. Deep down I’ve dreamed of moving back after saving money with my soon to be new career but, honestly, I don’t think I can do it. I’m holding onto a dream of an environment that will never be the same again. Last month I sat down to meditate at a friends apartment, and something told me to open my eyes.. I looked down and a giant roach was crawling towards me. I CANNOT handle the rodents anymore. The seriously freak me out. For the type of place I can afford, it would definitely more then likely have rodents unless I got really lucky. I don’t wanna hear any comments like “Ha even the transplants are complaining”… I’ve been all up in that bish since the 90s.. I’ve done a lottt of time, made a lot of history.. and I would not take any of it back. My last apartment was smack dab in middle of the loudest block in the LES. My former employers got it for me, so at the time, I couldn’t complain. That was the only time in 25 years that my rent was paid, and the most hellish experience to date. Even old time LES biz owners that had to close during covid are calling that area “a wasteland “.. and that’s coming from some real OG’s. I’ve had to learn to stop reliving a fantasy that will likely never come back to life and from the city or not, it’s still been heartbreaking since I spent half of my entire life there. I am not going back to a place where I constantly have to feel inadequate and struggle to survive. And, it’s sad that even making something like 6k a month has to be considered struggling. All I can say is, I’m so grateful for the memories of being there when it still felt authentic.. at least the first ten years or so I was there. I actually stay in Chinatown now when I visit, and I like it because it doesn’t have that snotty vibe that most all other areas of manhattan have. I only went to BK once in the last few years and when I did, I got robbed at a cross walk in broad daylight.. even in just a hoodie and casual understated clothes so, even if BK is safe now, for a 5’1 lil white chick based on what happened to me, I’ll never feel safe there again. And yes, I know, it’s happening more and more NOT just BK. I’m hip to it. And as far as the subway- that’s a MASSIVE HELL NO for me. That’s basically asking for it nowadays. I feel awful for people that have no choice but to take it. Things are not safe. I did my long winded nyc nightlife era and I’ll never forget how special it was but, that’s when there were people with Mohawks and head to toe tattoos running around, mixed in with the snobs and socialites. Sometimes people change and I’m just way too earthy and non materialistic to even bother to want to fit in. It grew increasingly awkward for me. I would be lying if I said my life is anything near as exciting as being in the city but, I can whole heartedly say I maximized my 20’s and 30’s and it was epic. Last month I tried to force myself to socialize and everyone I was with from my past was basically just doing cocaine and name dropping celebrities that they knew. My eyes couldn’t stop rolling with distaste for this superficial and toxic culture and I left as soon as I could. Who knows where I’ll eventually end up but, I don’t think it can ever be there again. The plot has been lost.

I respect you much more for giving us insights from your personal space. By providing your viewers an idea of what your expenses may be, you are very human in addition to being an influencer/content creator. Thanks, Cash Jordan, for being an authentic dude, always and forever!

That is totally ridiculous I am shocked I remember the many times I visited NYC over the years times were tough then but at least people were able to afford to pay their rent my country at one time was the 5th most riches places to live but expensive. Now NYC seems to have passed us that I can't even live in New York if I wanted too even with our good wages here in Bermuda 🇧🇲 it doesn't level out with the cost of living but it use too years ago that's changing too and our cost of living is slowly getting to be too much but New York prices and the size of the apartments are definitely ridiculous at least our places are still roomy and the prices are lower than NYC for now. I understand what you're saying to why they might be putting the cost up but everything is about money to what they can put in their back pocket and not for the people.

My family moved from Brooklyn to Staten Island 18 years ago cause they realized the mortgage payment would be similar to the rent they were already paying. Today that mortgage rate is THOUSANDS CHEAPER, to OWN A HOUSE in NYC!!!

Been watching this homelessness madness in the US for years now. And it shocks me all the time.

We left for Philly in 2021 bc we couldn't afford BKLYN any more. We're all native Brooklynites. My family goes back 3 generations in Bklyn. We were able to buy our first home in Philly. There was zero chance in NYC.

the same is happenig in brigeport ct you should do a video about that

HALVE my rent? Boy if that roommate is getting that bedroom with their own private backyard patio, they're paying at LEAST 60%! 😂

Thank you so much for these daily uploads, educating new yorkers and outsiders (I'm Irish but have a deep fixation with NYC, so I love learning about every aspect of it). Really do appreciate these high quality videos and the interviews provided.

The cost of living in NYC and Brooklyn has been high for years, but the current rental price gauging makes it infinitely worse. I keep hearing of friends who live here in upstate NY and are moving to places like North Carolina. This is a rental crisis and at least here in upstate NY certain specific groups are making a shitload of money off of it. Shame.

There ARE available apartments in NYC- but many landlords deliberately have been hiding ("warehousing") them- leaving them empty and off the market- to artificially create a deficit and jack ALL rental prices up. Sometimes it is because the landlords never bothered to update them from the circa 1960s/70s dumps they are. Now there are many new or renovated buildings in the city and landlords don't want to invest the money to fix them up enough to compete with the nicer units- so they leave them empty. It's really sad. I moved here in 1988 and lived in Chelsea with one roommate, waiting tables part-time and going to school. By 1990 I had moved to Brooklyn- first in Cobble Hill and then Park Slope. And when rental prices started going up there, I moved to Astoria in 2000. And Astoria used to be one of the few neighborhoods where you could find a nice, affordable apartment with a quick commute into the city. But by the end of 2022- that ended too. Now I live in Westchester- also over-priced (IMO), but better than the city- quieter, much safer- and nothing is locked up at CVS.

That’s insane… I have a detached house, close to 3000 square feet, 2 bed, 3 bath, separate pantry, a office, the master suite has it’s own bathroom with separate spa/laundry area. The living room is just over 400 square feet… down stairs I have a workshop, kennels/runs for the 3 dogs, a cold room, a studio for doing stained glass and one for crafting/painting… an area for me to groom my dogs and a giant man cave with a pool table… the rent on that apartment with the bars on the windows would pay all of my mortgage, utilities and insurance for the house, car and motorcycle… and prices in my area (rent and mortgage rates as well as house prices) are considered out of control. How are migrants flocking to New York? Do they just not know what reality there is like and deal with it when they get there?

My wife and I just moved out of NYC two years ago. She still works in the city, she's a school teacher. We moved into the suburbs in NJ and our money goes SO much further here! We bought a house about 15 minutes from Staten Island. There is ferry service now about 10 mins from our house that goes right into the city. There is the train that takes you into the city as well. She drives but there are other options if driving wouldn't work for you. We are so much happier here and moving from NYC was one of the best decisions we ever made!

I'm glad someone is speaking up on this!!! Living in New York is so unaffordable, and I'm literally going down every avenue agencies, NYC housing lottery, the WHOLE nine. Plus 3k is not even affordable when you have to make 40X that to even be considered not selected considered. Not to mention wages can't keep up with inflation now and the shortage in housing inventory is crazy.

Maybe you could consider moving to another city and tell us anything and everything about it like you have with NYC. It's really useful information for tourists and people who have just moved to the city/are new. Also just useful information to keep up to date on.

I get being priced out, it has happened to me, so I had two options, move to an area I could afford or downsize to price I could afford. ultimately the problem is the US gov that has allowed too much wealth to fall into the hands of the power elite. too many tax loopholes, weak policy, low taxes for rich, not enough regulation on housing etc...