How to rent a house in New York in 2020: tips for those who want to move

About how to rent housing in New York in 2020, and about the main difficulties in this matter, said the second channel "Life in different countries" on the site Yandex Zen.

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Renting a home is one of the first things everyone who moves to New York faces. Prices vary a lot and it can be difficult for a beginner to understand all the nuances. “For example, for a room in a private house near the metro, they ask for $ 750, but it should be understood that this means an area with a shared kitchen and a bathroom, and your neighbors may be people with a different schedule of life than yours,” the author writes.

If you decide to share your room with other people, you should understand that no one guarantees the safety of your personal belongings in such conditions.

In addition, this option is definitely not suitable for those who move with a family - in this case, you will need an apartment. "Prices for a one-bedroom" hut "in the Brighton Beach area (according to the Russian classification, two-room) fluctuate somewhere around $ 1350-1800, and this price does not include electricity and gas (heating and water are included in the general bill)", - the author told.

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Documents, work with realtors and other nuances

Be prepared for the fact that the real estate agent may require the presentation of any American document. He will also need to prove that his potential client will be able to make the required payment regularly. To do this, he may ask you to bring a guarantor - for example, your employer or relative, who has enough money to stay for a year, in the range of $ 70-80 thousand (housing is usually rented for a long time).

If a representative of a realtor company finds the fact of your solvency unconvincing, they simply won't let you into an expensive apartment. “For the minimum price, you will most likely be waiting for an ordinary bedbug: in addition, the agent himself will also have to“ cough ”,” warns the author.

“Now let's look at the salaries: a shop assistant earns an average of $ 14 per hour, and it is customary to work here no more than 40 hours a week,” the author writes. "Even with overtime, your weekly salary is unlikely to exceed $ 600, and your monthly salary is $ 2700."

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Based on this, almost all of the income you will have to pay for an apartment and food. In addition, if you do not settle in the most developed public transport area of ​​New York, you will also need a car.

You will spend the rest of your salary on paying for mobile communication services, the Internet, and other “little things,” the author writes, and warns: “There can be no talk of going to concerts, hanging out in clubs, skiing and other entertainments. Most likely, one will have to forget about personal life in such a race for survival - however, the undoubted plus of American girls is that they usually pay for themselves. ”

As for Russian-speaking migrants, as the author noted, "cheap show-off is peculiar to them." “If they have extra money, they can buy an expensive car or start dressing stylishly, but at the same time they will continue to live in a basement with rats and bedbugs,” he said.

Who should move to New York

If you have everything in order with finances and you are not used to looking at price tags in stores, then New York is a great place to move.

Also, the city will welcome you if you are an extraordinary person - a scientist, an athlete, a musician - for whom the home country has not created conditions for development.

You can take a chance and move to the Big Apple, if in your native Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus you are all sick of it. But be prepared for the fact that in a new place you have to go through all the hardships described above.

Since moving to the largest city in America requires a lot of endurance and strength, many cannot stand it and return. “As a result, it can be stated that today the mass migration to the United States has practically ended, at least on such a scale as it was 15 years ago,” the author writes. “Then the labor market was just teeming with a large number of offers, but today it is very difficult to find an employee for hard physical work”.

The author also noted that every year and a decade to live in the United States is becoming increasingly difficult. According to him, those who came here 20, 30 or 40 years ago recall the past with nostalgia and assess the prospects for the future with a considerable amount of skepticism.

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