I find law students no more anoying than lawyers.

It is my nature to edit things to what is nessessary. Moving to NYC is a different experence than almost anything else. Having roomates who are on a different track than you are might be a good or bad experence. If this is want is going to happen more power to her.

If she were moving to Boston it is more like moving to Madison or Millwalkee.

Moving to New York is really much more like moving to Minneapolis. In fact each day it becomes more and more like Minneapolis.

Mr. John:

I find many of your statements puzzling.

Big John wrote:She should keep her mind on going to Law School, ditch the friends who want to move with her. Stay in the Dorms where she could be closer to the library classes and fellow law students. If you are in a intensive program and your roomates are on a different page it is is just a unessessary distraction.

Her friends can move to NYC any time they want they want.

She is adding too many people to her escape lifeboat it will probibly capsize.

Once she is out of law school she can then locate a apartment if she can find a job or pass the bar if she is in the top 10% of her class who are the ones who find work as lawyers.

having met Emily, and knowing she is a pretty smart and capable person, I think she will deal just fine...

I don't understand the logic of living in Astoria when the school is in Flushing. That would be a total pain in the ass. Just move to Flushing. (I live there) Unless you absolutely have to be around the ultra-hip. And I don't care what the hipsters say...Astoria is mostly a shit neighborhood. If you moved to Woodside/Sunnyside, it would be easier to get to school and a better place to live IMO.

Dr. Venkman wrote:And I don't care what the hipsters say...Astoria is mostly a shit neighborhood.

I am so going to cockpunch you next time I see you.

burun wrote:

Dr. Venkman wrote:And I don't care what the hipsters say...Astoria is mostly a shit neighborhood.

I am so going to cockpunch you next time I see you.

...If you ever make it out of that garbage dump neighborhood alive.

Dr. Venkman wrote:

burun wrote:

Dr. Venkman wrote:And I don't care what the hipsters say...Astoria is mostly a shit neighborhood.

I am so going to cockpunch you next time I see you.

...If you ever make it out of that garbage dump neighborhood alive.

OK, so I don't have a Bar-age, or a Ronald McDonald head therein.

So my lights flicker when my fridge cycles on.

Minor inconveniences.

burun wrote:

Dr. Venkman wrote:

burun wrote:

Dr. Venkman wrote:And I don't care what the hipsters say...Astoria is mostly a shit neighborhood.

I am so going to cockpunch you next time I see you.

...If you ever make it out of that garbage dump neighborhood alive.

OK, so I don't have a Bar-age, or a Ronald McDonald head therein.

So my lights flicker when my fridge cycles on.

Minor inconveniences.

What's inconvenient is living in New York.

Zing!



Ok, quick NYC story

In October/November of 2001 I was working for some asshole producer at a jingle house in Chicago. Right around the time of that Mid-town anthrax mailing thing I am invited to a jingle house on 45th Street to interview for basically the same position but instead it would be for some asshole producers in NYC. I nail the interview.

So after I return to Chicago they call and offer me the job but with the same salary I was making in Chicago. This would essentially be a $15k/year paycut. For the same rent I was paying for a 2 bed in Chicago in a 3 flat with a back porch I would be living in my friends living room in his Manhattan high rise or in some crappy room at another friends crappy loft in Williamsburg Brooklyn . I was struggling to make ends meet in Chicago but that is a lot different than the struggle in NYC which is a more expensive place to be no matter how you slice it. So I turned down the job.

"Why?" The producer asks incredulously.

"Because if I am going to move to New York for a job I need it to be some kind of step up." I reply.

"Well, any move to New York City is a step up!" He huffs back.

Sure it is pal.

Cease immediately your ill-informed ranting and raving, people other than Burun, Vockins, and Ty Webb.

The super appreciates your consideration. We now resume this discussion between accredited New York PRF'ers.

Just tell your friend to be homeless in New York. They are world renowned for their kindness and caring for fellow human beings. It'd be no time till someone came by and helped them get on their feet.