How do people afford to live in New York City?|150766

If New York is so expensive to live in, then how is it city with the highest population in the country. All the people that live there can_t make a lot of money. How do people afford to live there and what jobs do they do?

With very good paying jobs and/or room mates to share with the expenses.

you kinda answered your own question. NYC does have the largest urban population in the country, so, ultimately, it just can_t be so so expensive for 8 million people to live here. we make a little more than everybody else, be we also spend it in different places and in different ways. some expenses you can even choose not to have at all, like the expenses of having a car...

becuase we all work for our money and are used to the high prices

for example my aunt just bought a house for $500,000 in queens, and my other aunt rents an apt for about $2,000 a month ( 2 bedrooms)

one summer we went to the south and we shocked that a 2 brm there is only about $600
and a house is about $200k
everyone in NY isn_t rich, but we have money

just how everyone in LA isn_t drving BMWs

people do anything.. literally anything to just to live in nyc...

You got to think of it this way. Rent may be 3 times more, but the salaries that we receive are also 3 times more.