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Ooh, it’s in a week. I’m excited!

I’m not even American. Nor do I plan to step foot in the US until the current crisis is over. But growing up with movies and shows set in what is probably an overly romanticized version of NYC and then actually visiting the city briefly a few years ago, it still seems like such an amazing place. Perhaps not for the many, many New Yorkers who can’t afford it (which Mamdani is trying to fix after all), but in general… You just walk around and behind every corner there’s something interesting. No need to go to the tourist traps, because the entire city is cool and so alive.

Before a bunch of things happened in my life that tied me down for the next 2 decades or so, I wanted to see if I could get a tech job in NYC. Financially it doesn’t seem as great as the Bay Area, but I like the dense city with the subway and everything. Envisioned myself living in a fancy apartment complex that has its own gym and pool one day lol

October 28, 2025, 10:23 am

New Yorker here. Visiting here is cool because you can go back where you came from and live in a normal neighborhood, living here, not so much. There is a lot of political and real estate corruption which has caused renting prices to skyrocket. It is a bad financial decision to actually try to live here because you’ll never own a home (minimum house costs $1.5M). Most everyone who isn’t rich or living with family, is on some form of welfare or assistance just to meet rent, whether it’s NYCHA, Section 8 or piling up 5 roommates in a 3 bedroom apartment just to have a normal rent cost. And even then, you’ll likely only be in your spot 3 maybe 5 years because the rent goes up every year until you eventually get priced out and have to leave. Healthcare workers are leaving. Professors are leaving. Everyone even the homegrown New Yorkers are leaving for other states like Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, etc.

Lots of store fronts are just abandoned because businesses have packed up and left too. There’s homeless everywhere. Drug addicts and mentally ill aimlessly roam the streets. It’s BAD. The problems here are endless all due to political corruption among the local government. The city misspends and washes tax money and has drained the city dry. The subway is literally crumbling apart still running on 1960s and older machinery. The rich have sucked this city dry along with the life and culture it once had. Rich white people and Jews are buying up all the real estate and pushing Black and Brown people out by tearing down their homes, rebuilding and then jacking up the rents very high in historic, iconic areas like Harlem, Brooklyn and now the Bronx, so the Black and Brown people can’t move back in.

Jobs you can forget it. Job fair lines are wrapped down several blocks of unemployed people looking for work and food pantries have a crowd all the time. I’ve seen a lot of people dumpster-diving as well. I could keep going on with the sad states of affairs here.

Everything is just in a horrible state right now for New Yorkers. I voted today and cast my vote for Mamdani, because I really hope he can turn this around. We are tired.

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