Spiral's Sex Magnet 2011 journal

[WildFlower]

Wildflower, I live
in Soho-its the downtown Mecca of NYC and the most expansive real estate in the city.
Its amazing living here-the only problem is its my mom's loft-and all gratitude to her aside-she is either doing her thing, which is GREAT, or being a crazy bitch pushing me to get more work and move out. So right now I'm in the move out process and its easy to find an affordable place in the city but hard to find an affordable place where you would WANT to live-I've been spoiled by where I live and want to find something in a neighborhood least half as exciting. Your right, living here, I don't get itchy feet as much, although I would love to live in Cali for a while. The pace here can be overwhelming at times and in general the cost of living is fairly high-you'll spend hundred on subways if you don't play it right and get a monthly or weekly pass and even then-that aint cheap. Although its probably cheaper than England still, where are you located there?- You should have let me known you were coming-I could have shown you around a bit.

You live in Soho, that's amazing! Near the tribeca? I envy you majorly. Although I do appreciate the feeling of wanting to move out; I'm going through the same. Whenever I visit somewhere, I have a weird habit of always looking at the house prices, and I was amazed at just how affordable New York is. I have enough savings to right out buy a house in NYC, but not enough to even put down a deposit for a mortgage here. Granted, the house's I looked at weren't in Soho; they where in Brooklyn, about 20 minutes from the bridge. But still property in New York - the cultural capital of the world - is more affordable than over here. I live between Manchester and Liverpool, which is pretty cool and actually considered much, much cheaper property wise than down south in the London area. The average house price in the UK right now, in dollars, is: $370111.42

Aside from property, general necessities and stuff also seems much cheaper over in the states. I don't think the US has it totally right (the lack of basic social services is startling and concerning, for a little marxist like myself) but it is definitely a much more affordable place to live than the UK. I don't know why that is, whether it's because the dollars the reserve currency or what, but like for like things are just cheaper - even when you take tax in to account.

About the Subway, it was pretty much the only thing I wasn't too keen on. They didn't seem all that regular (not like the London underground anyway) and they were slow. Taxi's on the other hand where very, very cheap.

Man, I love New York. Place is stunning, people are friendly as hell (I know that's going against another stereotype), just a shame you can't get a pint of cider anywhere.

I didn't know you where in New York. Weirdly I didn't know that 3 different friends from over here where all simultaneously there when I was too. Massive coincidence. I'll definitely be returning and I'll let you know then.