# Moving to NY... tips? tricks? suggestions?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-to-ny-tips-tricks-suggestions/310667>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 1, 2005, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-to-ny-tips-tricks-suggestions/310667 "2005-07-01T09:10:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-to-ny-tips-tricks-suggestions/310667/41 "2005-07-06T13:03:44Z")

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> [@Eve](#):
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> You may want to join us reviled **Bridge & Tunnel People** and live in New Jersey, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Westchester, Long Island . . . All easily accessible to Midtown and much, much cheaper, rent-wise. .

Not a New Yorker, but I can speak to this, as my stepdaughter lives in Brooklyn and is a student at Columbia, fairly far uptown. She seems to have no problem getting in and out of Manhattan every day.

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**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-to-ny-tips-tricks-suggestions/310667/42 "2005-07-06T13:10:05Z")

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And my qualifications?

I can read a map (and I lived in the East Village for three years which, while not long enough to be imprinted in my genetic memory, is long enough to discover where the borders are).

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