So are you moving to NYC?

I should know this Friday whether they're going to tender an offer, and I'll make a decision very quickly if they do.

In some ways, it will be easier if they don't and I don't have to decide. Commuting home every couple of weeks will be OK, but it might be easier to stick with status quo...

It's just that NYC is he number one TV market in the country. I never really wanted to work there until I outgrew all of the other markets besides LA...

Good luck whatever happens. I wish you the best! :)

I don't think I could go back to living with the parents; but I don't know, my circumstances allow me to live away from home and do ok.

Living in Boston is a drain on the finances, no question; but I got a good apartment at a great price in Brookline (suburb on the border of Boston) and it all worked out well.

However, there may be circumstances where I'll have to move back...you just never know.

I will say this though - I can cook, clean, and take care of myself when necessary.

We've been looking for studios and one-bedrooms across the park (West 70s-90s) and I haven't found anything that much yet! I might end up trying out Brooklyn Heights, Park Slope or Williamsburg if the prices are much more than what I'm paying just a few blocks up--and I'm willing to pay $1500 for a studio if it's nice.

I'm 24 and have lived at home all along. I had apartments in college, but would visit frequently, and always stayed home for the summers. FI did the same thing. We both felt like it was kind of expected.

I'll be living at home until I'm married, whcih is in exactly 4 months! FI and I bought a condo 2 weeks ago; he'll be moving in soon.

He lived with his parents post-graduation because he was unemployed. After he found a job, he continued/continues to live at home. It's not ideal, but the tradeoffs were that he could buy me a gorgeous engagement ring cash, have money for a downpayment on a house, and still have plenty of savings in the bank.

Neither of us pay rent, but we both do help out a lot. FI does the yard work for his parents, does housecleaning, laundry, cooking (he's totally domestic!) I help my mom with the housework, the grocery shopping, etc. We don't pay rent, but we do "earn our keep"

I see no problem with living at home if you are (1) in school (college, technical school, whatever), OR (2) you are contributing to the household, via paying rent, bills, and/or buying groceries...

I lived at home during various points thoroughout college (I currently don't live at home). My mother required that I pay her rent, and I resented her for it b/c: (1) I am a first-generation college student, (2) I am paying my own way through school and working (3) I help her and my siblings out financially when I can and when it's needed...Not to mention the fact that the last time I lived at home I didn't even have my own room (or a room even) to sleep in, and she was charging me an amount for rent that wasthisclose to what I could've paid to have a roommate. :mad: Also, she expected me to come home at 11pm and wash other people's dishes and clean-up other people's mess :eek: :rolleyes: (mind you, I was paying rent and she expected me to do this. And sh held the fact that I needed to live at home shortly over my head and in my face whenever she could..So, needless to say, I can't imagine myself living ther again and putting myself through te drama unless I was going to be homeless (and even then, I would still hesitate about moving back there)...

Okay, I can see people living at home either for college, emotional support, financial reasons, whatever. What I find a little odd and quite frankly disturbing is a girl (23 years old) who is fully capably of supporting herself deciding that she couldn't hack it and moving back home. The reason I find this disturbing is not because she decided she needed to move back home, but because she decided to move in with her parents instead of living with her husband! (Her parents and husband both lived in completely different states) To my mind being married to someone means that you are now committed to this person and tied by certain bonds. One of these bonds is that if you're going to live with anyone it should be the person to whom you're married. Whatever floats her boat though . . .

That must have been before they repealed rent control in Santa Monica. Now, a cheap one bedroom is $1500, average is $1900 and up.

If someone has to live at home, that's cool. I just knew before I got married or lived with a man, that I would have to live on my own. I didn't want to go from my Daddy's house to the sorority house to my husband's house. But, not everyone has it so well. People lose jobs, get divorced. Houses burn down or are flooded.

That's probably true. Still, for that money in Manhattan, you get a 15x20 foot "studio."

For anything less, you put the key in the doorlock and break the window on the other side of the "room."

No question LA is expensive, but not as expensive as NY.

Plus Santa Monica is gross.

-Rudey
--There are way more street people there than in NY ewwww.

If I do move there, I'll be working at about 67th & 3rd, so that's the epicenter where I'll concentrate my search because I really want to walk to work, etc. if that's possible. Lots of neat stuff around there, too, as you know.

There are a fair number of studios in that price range in the Times online classifieds -- but I chatted with a realtor and he tells me that they rent in a hurry.

Be nice to hear yes or no from the potential employer so I can make a final decision.

Oh I sooo feel you on that one. I am in college and since I went back to get certified to teach, I get no financial aid other than loans, so everything is out of pocket for me. There is really no way to go to school full-time and make enough on a part-time job to pay rent, car insurance, and pay for school. My parents are sadly mistaken if they think I am going to pay rent and I am already paying for everything myself. They did not pay a dime for anything the entire time I was in college. So I would not be over exaggerating to call us somewhere close to even.

Dr. Phil has a link on his site --

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