Explaining frugal NYC apartment choicefrom @alliedition

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Let's spend a morning together in my New York City apartment from hell. A lot of people don't understand why we haven't broken our lease and moved sooner, but there's so many reasons. Tier biggest one is obviously money. It's obviously so expensive to move and the market here is is tough that it's hard to find a good place that is actually better. It isn't a ton more money. We moved here purposely trying to spend as little as possible while staying in our desired neighborhood. We knew this apartment was gonna be dingy and less ideal, but we good have possibly anticipated everything that was gonna happen tier, like ceiling leaks, the neighbors, etcetera. We were willing to have kind of a crappy first New York City apartment because it financially made a lot of sense. Billy and I are self employed entrepreneurs who are still trying to hit certain income goals. We wanted to cut back on spending in a lot of ways, so cutting our largest fixed expense best made a lot of sense. We couldn't possibly have known that we'd have crappy neighbors that would leak water into our apartment four different times on top of everything