I hope everyone enjoys this vid! It’s a little different than what you are used to seeing on the main channel but different is fun! Be sure to check out Cash for more NYC apartment tours!
I'm from NYC and this is why I won't live in East Village, the apartments are usually small and pricey. Great video! Enes, you and Mikey are the best!!
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One of my pet peeves is calling places like that first one an "apartment". It is just false advertising. If it does not have a bathroom and kitchen it is not an apartment. It is a room for rent.
Even people in California are freaking out over these prices LOL We pay $1,500 for tiny apartments too, but we get a lot more for our money, like central A/C, swimming pools, playgrounds, gym, etc.
exactly its kinda like boarding house style ......my mom and I also lived in a house like this for a little bit but the whole bathroom sharing thing was weird and she bailed quick LOL
@@naturalforme you realize that a thousand a month comes out to a $238,000 mortgage. Don't live in a big city and you can get yourself a decent sized house with that kind of money.
@Annabelle Liu Probably but I’d rather live in Brooklyn since it’s cheaper. I checked how much it would cost to rent with roommates and for a small bedroom and shared living spaces it was 1,000 a month. 😓
yeah thats too expensive even if its 500$ bc here in Philippines with that space its only 2000 pesos and thats 40$ im glad that i am a Filipino and for 1000$ thats my 4 months salary
@@joesantamaria5874 the glitz and the glam. The clubs restaurants and that can’t afford to stay open after their grand opening because people have the attention span of a flea or cannot afford to patron the places because NYC is so over priced.
Yeah. I live in a studio In the Midwest that is almost 500 sq ft with big windows that let in light as well as a storm door I can have open for light and even I was stir crazy. I can’t imagine being in one of these boxes.
Precisely. He even mentioned it in the video. Those small apartments are meant to be where you sleep and eat, where you survive. The city is where you are intended to live.
Wait? Did restaurants actually close in ny? They didn't here. Indoor seating was closed so we had to order to go. Nothing really closed here. I think malls did after awhile. And theatres. And six flags. And water parks. And I also think bars did bc you can't really take alcohol to go. It's so different outside of Dallas. But we're also not packed like sardines here. We did offer shopping times for old people. But our quarantine was basically no school for kids.
"It's $500 more for the other 50%, that is fair." Has me laughing like it was reasonable to pay nearly 1.5k just to have a kitchen and bathroom. I can't believe that first room was 1k.
@@NG-fk6wc Oh no, Columbia charges 15,000 for on-campus housing, even more for off campus, and they sell out quick off the market. One of my old high school friends relayed to me that he went there for engineering and forced himself to commute from a relative's house in Beacon every day to avoid those prices. The traffic makes up for it though. :P
“We’re in nyc!” *trash all over the sidewalk* “What a view!” *ugly factories and broken down buildings* “You come to nyc to make something of yourself!” *spends hours a week trudging to a laundromat to do laundry, eats only unhealthy take out food cuz there is no time to cook* Anyone else feeling the cognitive dissonance?
yes, it looks depressing. "You come to NY because you are ambitious and want to make something of yourself!" so you have to have to make $80k+ a year just to live in a normal 1 bedroom apartment and not a prison cell sized room. and don't ever think about doing something crazy like having kids or buying a home.
Yeah this is painfully delusional. I lived in Miami for years and rented a room in someone’s home, had access to a full kitchen and bathroom to myself for $400. I’ll take that again any day over my “own apartment” in New York and I hate Miami.
The lot across the street is empty before a building is put up. Legit every city has trash on average nyc is actually pretty clean. Unless you film on trash day then well yea there is trash waiting for pick up. The first apt is basically used as a nyu dorm. It is right near the college and most living in the building are nyu students. That neighborhood actually on a nom overcasted day looks pretty nice.
I can't decide if that first apartment looks more like a low level correctional facility or more the kind of place you'd keep a hostage whilst awaiting the ransom money 😂
Been there done that near Disneyland. Lousy roommate was rude to landlady also and got another place to live after a while.🙄 Things tend to work out but you have to put up with s&it. When you live with family even there can be problems of course cheaper, usually. Security is much better with others usually. Have my own room and space now. I get good food utilities, not wi fi, have make shift kitchen, storage, $1000. Share bathroom but gotten used to it. So much depends on getting along with people. If you don't even best places can be terrible.
I was in a hostel in NYC once, same sized rooms but with bunk beds + had feces all over the walls, like real shit smeared on the walls and a busted window near the fire escape, so everyone could technically crawl into your room at night. Didnt sleep a second that night.
Shario D.N. - Climbing stairs is some of the best exercise available. I personally wouldn’t live in the space with no bathroom, but that 2nd apt was sweet. Clean, bright, hardwood floors, new bathroom fixtures, it even has a separate bedroom! It’s lovely! For only $1500/mo?! That apt in the heart of Seattle would be more expensive (quite a bit more). I had no idea such a nice place could be rented in Manhattan for so little. I might have chosen NYC over Seattle 20 yrs ago had I known the Seattle rent situation would eventually make NYC look like a bargain.
True I loved in an old trailer only paid $350 it was tearing apart but screw that id rather lived in the trailer my own bathroom and parking space than these apartments
@@madeleinerose7090 ONLY??? in the Netherlands you get a a small 1076sqft home for that price. this is nuts. this shouldn't go a dollar over $750 a month imo
What is a converted van? I’m interested if it’s cheap and decent to live in then I’ll consider the Netherlands or somewhere else jn USA to live in or old I have $3000 saved up in total savings xD so, my budget i can pay no more than $200/month please gimme advice where to find
Honestly if you can open a apartment door with a metro card then your really living on the edge. Its like a gamble now, "will my stuff still be there after work or will it be cleaned out?".
@@genevievedarrett3163 Without a deadbolt or chain, 90% of interior residential doors can be carded, it's not really a secret. The door has a deadbolt, if you look at it. So the apartment cannot be carded if you just fasten the deadbolt.
I mean like... what if you had a bathroom "emergency" .. and needed it right now.. and it was occupied ? What then !! omg .. plus what if the person right before you was .. well.. I should not elaborate, you can fill in the blanks... Absolute nightmare.
@@Sergio-wv7ig it’s funny I’ve always wanted to live in New York even if it was just for a year or two but assumed it would be to expensive. Good to know it’s not that much worse than were I live but with a much higher possible income.
That's why it was so cheap IMO. Might be worth it though if you only plan to live there for a few months/year before they start construction on that empty lot.
you dont have to live in the actual city, called manhattan, you can live in L.I or queens or brooklyn for 700-1500 a month and find a studio in queens for 1350
It amazes me that elsewhere in US you can get a BIG apartment with two rooms for less than the first closet they showed. Like you're paying just to be IN New York.
That is what they say, you go to NYC for the city, not for the living arrangements. I might love a city enough to move there, but I need my space to be in decent conditions and comfortable enough for me to do so too.
I used to rent a 900 sq ft apartment (2 bed 2 bath) for $900. Now I own a 2500 sq ft house and my mortgage payment is still less than $1000. I think I will stay in Pennsylvania!
It's not overpriced it's NYC. Even the worst apartments are worth a lot. If an apartment with the same design was placed in your average city then it would be so much cheaper
1.500$ is literally 3 times more than the minimum wage in my country ,that is expensive as fuck ( i mean 3 times more than you will be payed for a month, i dont know why you people calculate your income by year ), if that is the cheapest...what the fuck are NY people doing for a living to afford a "normal" one
I paid $600/month to stay in a 5'6" x 5'6" room in Tokyo back in the day... It was lofted so you couldn't stand up inside and you had to lie down diagonally to stretch out because the room was so small. The walls were made of fiberboard. This looks so much nicer lol
I pay $1,007.00/month for my house in Connecticut. I get three bedrooms, a nice size living room, a nice size kitchen, a finished basement, a 4 season room, a laundry room, and a nice size bathroom and a half. I have a big backyard with a lot of trees and a beautiful deck. I'm at the end of a dead-end street so, it's very quiet. I have two Cadillacs in my own private driveway. It's only an hour to get to Manhattan from where I am. If I had the same things in Manhattan, I'd be paying more than $10,000.00/month. I feel so lucky!
@@Comeswoopfam I can walk around my 4 mile block area at any time of the day and not worry about getting mugged too. I suppose for the criminals, it would "suck".
"Everything is a 10 out of 10 for someone, that's why they sign the lease". That's some old school greasy sales bullshit right there. I promise you they sign the lease on a 3/10 because they can't afford the rent on anything better. You damn well no one their right mind thinks a 120 square foot apartment is a 10/10. Home many billionaires do you know living in an apartment the size of an outhouse.
orrrrrrr they take a bus/car/train/feet elsewhere until they find what they feel is a 10/10 .......Ive lived in partially finished basements growing up in Chicago with a single mom that was a cab driver and college student. The basement was on the dirtest nastiest most crime ridden street........when she moved us to another basement apartment was it a 10/10 in some bougie bitches opinion duh no.....we literally had a basement floor with a drain hole in it and a water pipe with a shower head on it and two half ass finished rooms.......but........it was a 10/10 for my mom because it meant when I had to walk home from school alone.....I wasn't going to be kidnapped or assaulted or worse so.....10 out of 10 is a PERSONAL perspective not a vague one
@@poshbloggeraccount7319 to me 10/10 means it fulfills all you needs and most of your wants. If you wouldn't move back there today even though your financial situation is different than it's not a 10/10.
@@poshbloggeraccount7319 I also lived in a similar situation as a kid, but after having gotten a good paying job and getting a nice apartment in the better area of my city I can say without a doubt that it wasn't a 10/10 where I grew up. There was sentimental value in the memories I made there, but the conditions were terrible compared to what the world has to offer. Plastic sheeting for walls and tar for a floor, or a jacuzzi tub with high rise ceilings. There's objective improvements to be found in the place you live up to a certain point.
@8LJ8 then I’ll just have to move to anywhere in USA or the world maybe Europe or Mexico or latinamerica where the rent is most cheapest for me, I have $3000 saved up in all total so where do I go how do I do it?
@8LJ8 No offense, but the only people that say they would never live in Manhattan are usually those who can't it. If you traded lives with someone who lives in a plush Manhattan apartment with remarkable views of skyscrapers, a doorman, concierge, a gym, laundry, etc., you wouldn't want to go back home. Best city in the world!!! Prices have also gone down considerably because of COVID. I was able to get into a luxury building for a great price. Happiest I've ever been. Love the city.
@8LJ8 Yes, I completely understand. I also love nature and understand not liking the loud and busy city. Didn't mean to come off bitchy, but I'm just really over protective and annoyed when people talk shit about a place they've never been which is a lot of people in the comments. I lived in Staten Island for most of my life, and I also enjoyed having easy access to Manhattan, but not living in the most dense area of nyc. Stay safe as well
I loved the second place and its price, however I would need a tree outside. I rented a small, furnished studio in the East Village (East 4th Street), for a week in May and was totally spoiled by having a tree and the same little bird that would sit on the fire escape and serenade me every morning. Find me one like that!! ❤️❤️❤️
@@lynne523 yes, it was so wonderful! The same little bird would wake me up just tweeting away on the fire escape and fly back to its nest in the tree if it saw me. I put it in my vlog each day when I was in NYC. Here’s one that starts with the bird, if you’re interested: th-cam.com/video/QbhQ-nxij00/w-d-xo.html.
This was cool! The idea of paying a grand for that tiny little room made me cringe, but then again, I don’t live in NYC lol. It would be fun if you did a follow up back home in LA to show what you’d get for those rents.
@@milagrosalicea4035 That's why he has 73K subs, because he enjoys his work and he has a positive attitude. Do you have 73K subs and enjoy your work? We can rule out a, "positive attitude".
@@MusicalFilly I’m not arguing with you. Take it up with infectious disease experts if you think your opinion on infectious disease prevention is somehow equivalent to theirs 🤗
Monica's apartment was actually given to her by her grandmother, so that's how she was able to live there. As for Joey and Chandler, Chandler made enough to pay for it and even lend money to Joey from time to time. Ross was a professor at a museum so he obviously could afford New York, but I don't know about Phoebe.
@@abbiereynolds8016 from what i remember phoebe didn't live in the same neighborhood for a while and later lived with her grandma who left her the apartment she lived in with rachel and later with mike
They do talk about "rent control", but yeah, pretty unrealistic. It was the 90s though, like that's 25 years ago, it sure has gotten a lot worse since then
Thought exactly the same. We own a 3bed house with a massive garden 40mins away from London that we bought in 2016. Our mortgage payments are £1100/month with the potential of dropping at each remortgage. Lucky to have gotten on the step ladder and no need to live inside the city to be able to visit the city at your own convenience. Its a waste of hard earned money, if you spend so much, for so little, spending even more on daily take outs because there's no proper kitchen to cook.
My bedroom is bigger than that first "apartment" and has a half bath. This is why our 27 year old daughter still lives at home in our 2-bedroom apartment here in Queens. As a matter of fact, her bedroom is bigger. She earns her keep so it's all good
@@eduardochavacano I’ve seen some living areas in Hong Kong and Korea that were very dangerous living situations. Seriously cramped apartment like a coat closet and a fire hazard. I’m glad we have some kind of laws protecting people’s safety.
I’d like to see a comparison of the first apartment to a cell in Rikers … who has more space? (And yes, I know the apartment dweller can leave at will and that’s a massive difference - I’m just talking physical space.)
Just live in a different borough in NYC (like Brooklyn). Might still be pricey, but living outside Manhattan is generally more affordable with a bit more square feet (if not considerably more space). Commuting from another borough (depending on how deep you are in that borough) can take you 15-45 minutes to get to Manhattan via the subway or bus. I lived in NYC for 24 years and been living in Missouri the past year and a half. While I appreciate the peace and quiet of the suburbs, I can tell you that there ain't no place like NYC, at least in the US. I lived in Cali, Texas, and Maryland for a few months at a time, and nothing can fulfill me like NYC did. It does take time getting used to (noisy and admittedly dirty depending on location), but once you adapt, you get attached.
The studio they first showed had a view into another apartment window. If you lived in the first one and moved to the second or third one. You now have a great view. Simply put "good view" is subjective..
Wow! When I lived in New York in the late ‘80s, I paid $600/mnt for a one-bedroom stoop apartment in a rowhouse in the Steinway district of Astoria. One block off of Ditmars Blvd and two blocks from the terminus of the R-Line. Next door, the landlord lived in the street level apartment, his mom and dad lived in the stoop level and grandma and grandpa lived upstairs. It was a great neighborhood, and often, momma Rose would knock on the wall and hand over a big plate of homemade lasagna across the fire-escape on Tuesdays. Life was good.
Don’t think that New York exists anymore, I’m from the U.K that sounds cool tbh. But I think these days people are chasing the shadow of a New York that isn’t there anymore
@@shoazdon7000 ~I think that’s true. I eventually moved back to Seattle and now I live rurally in the northwest corner of the state about ten minutes from the Canadian border. Unfortunately, I filled my now 27 year old daughter with tales of the New York that once was. She married a Coast Guard man and he accepted a position and now patrols New York Harbor. She got her BS degree in Washington and is almost done getting her Registered Nurse degree there, and they are looking to get out. I had to laugh when she said to me the same words I once said to her in warning, “Well dad, it’s been real and it’s been fun, but it hasn’t been real fun.” LOL Cheers
My brother and sister-in-law lived in NYC for a couple of years. They were paying $1700 for essentially a hallway with a bathroom and kitchen. It was insane to me.
They rent it at $1000 completely broken then spice the price up with every little thing that works, like the fucking entrance door that locks and tell you you should be grateful.
@@saruhhhh Yikes man. Telling all lower income people to just move without considering the people who are forced to live in these apartments probably don't have savings to settle in a new state and would have no family or friends around them even if they do. Not to mention the people who work minimum wage jobs need housing too and in a city as large as NYC, minimum wage jobs sustain it. These apartments shouldn't exist, not that people should just just leave. This is clearly profiteering off the backs of those who have no other choice.
The reason why this is so expensive is because of the location. I'd honestly rather live away from the city if it means paying that much for a freaking micro apartment.
Location, location, location. I have lived in the same apartment I bought 20 years ago in Copenhagen. The value of it has like gone up like 700% in that time. Its crazy, every person should be able to afford a reasonable place in the city. If you are a teacher, nurse or policeman you should've to live outside the city with long transport for work.
They don't. There's just no rent control for shitty landlords, they're allowed to do it because we're america and imposing would TaKe aWaY tHeIr fReEdUmB :(
Seriously, as a Hong konger, I could only relate to the first “apartment” or room, the second one already looks like a normal apartment in Hong Kong. If you look up sub-divided units in HK, you will understand the pain. I acknowledge every place have their own culture, economy and many more, but I can’t stop myself comparing these units in the video and the ones in HK.
As someone's who has studied and written a term paper on the Kowloon Walled City, I feel that. Hong Kong needs a complete revamp. Tokyo is almost at that stage of no return and making cramped "pretty", and Singapore is on the edge.
Our house payment is 200 dollars a year. Property taxes. And we pay 100 a month for homeowners insurance. We have a 1700 sq. ft. house, 3 acres, a pool and hot tub, barn, paddocks for 2 horses. We paid it off in 2013. We did our own upgrades (have construction experience). Out in the country. Our nearest city is 35 miles away. Way better than these holes in the wall, except that I will say the third one was rather nice---kind of similar to our house. We'll keep what we've got though, thank you. (Jan Griffiths).
Loved how Enes tried to up-sell the bathroom in #2 ... two soap dishes, now that's living the dream 🤣 I was going to say this is more expensive than London then I remembered someone paid £400k for a parking space a year or two back. Great video...now I know if I ever wanted to live in NYC I'd need north of $2k a month for the rent or therapy for claustrophobia :)
The title of this video should be "For this area, this is fine." This entire video is one big justification attempt for the shitty rental options in NYC. Based on this video, the place I rent here would be around 3500/month and I pay less than 1/15th that. I get a full bathroom, washer, dryer, big kitchen, and a large bit of land with grass and very few neighbors. These places are a joke.
I live in a 2,700 square foot house with two car garage and a swimming pool that was built in 2010. Our mortgage is about as much as these apartments!! Wow!!!
I don't live in NY...I would never want to. I could never imagine paying a payment that high. We built our own house too. It's 2600sqft, has a 2 car garage, a 3 car shop building, and it sits on almost 6 acres of land. My house payment cost less than the first apartment that was shown.... What I got from watching this video...people move to New York.... go out into the city to "to do their thing". Why are they working so hard if they're not even investing the money into their own future? You know... when that time comes, and they are unable to go out into the city to do their thing? Then what? No payments made on A house or land. Nothing to fall back on..... just my thoughts.
Lol damn, rent in Ontario Canada an hour outside Toronto is $1300 minimum for a one bedroom apartment. I can’t afford anything bigger than my bachelor (120sqft)
I really count myself lucky..paid less than 350 a month for my house payment and bought a 3 bedroom 1 bath old house with 10 acres. Can't imagine paying that much for something you'll never own.
OMG do you live in a farm town or like one of those areas where everyone is out of work because you don't have public transportation and the big job in town is like Walmart or Kroger? ? I pay 3000 a month where i live now and it sucks......I can't remember the last time I paid so little to live in a 3 bedroom unless it was like a trailer or some gross avocado green appliance press and stick tile double wide or 1960s type track house lol
I like how humble Enes looks, and he took the surprise quite well. Mikey still has his charm too. It's an awesome video. I would like to see more educational side however. Lets say you tour a mansion or a big luxury home. It's not clear how they maintain: 1) Cleaning 2) Insect prevention (all the indoor-outdoor flow) 3) Maybe some maintenance tips/tricks 4) Some estimates on the prices of all the points combined It's cool watching you do some different content, but the education you guys put in is my favorite thing.
I spent ten years in the military. It is amazing how little you really NEED to get by on. There are a lot of people in the world who would consider these places as a luxury. Shared bath and water closet facilities were still common in some New York buildings as recently as the 1980s. It's not that bad as long as they are clean and maintained. Of more concern to me than sqft, is safety. You need to take a hard look at the building, and the neighborhood. If your paying $1500/mo for a 1br/1bath, even in a walk up, my guess is that we are talking about a sketchy neighborhood. And doors that can be opened with a debit card are a deal breaker for me. But everybody needs a place to live and I can afford better than that. For some folks, micro apartments may be what they need in the here and now.
Had an apartment smaller then the first one. But it had a full sized fridge, small counter, sink, small oven, TV, microwave, appliances, utensils, towels, twin bed, desk and went for 650 a month with a shared bathroom.
I hope everyone enjoys this vid! It’s a little different than what you are used to seeing on the main channel but different is fun! Be sure to check out Cash for more NYC apartment tours!
Tons of fun making this one 👍
@@CashJordan likewise!
I'm from NYC and this is why I won't live in East Village, the apartments are usually small and pricey. Great video! Enes, you and Mikey are the best!!
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One of my pet peeves is calling places like that first one an "apartment". It is just false advertising. If it does not have a bathroom and kitchen it is not an apartment. It is a room for rent.
You know what’s funny, I live in a sleep room only. One day I’ll live in a studio lol
Yup.....a rooming house.....
Exactly my brother lives in Harlem the showers and bathrooms are in the hallway, but they have a janitor. So the bathrooms are always spotless
@@leilal8053 I don't think it is even a legal rooming house. The public hallways are too narrow - fire safety issues flashing through my mind.
Exactly
WTH? Share a bathroom with strangers? That is not a apartment, that is a boarding house
Right?! Whole time I was like ew, ew, ew...
It's a hostel you have to furnish.
Agreed.
1,500 is more than I make in a month
Yeah no bueno
“For the East village this is a great view”
*shows what looks like an abandoned construction site*
Yes! I was thinking the same thing. Only in NYC!!
all the views were ugly. the buildings look so run down.
right it was so ugly omg
@@tracy7612 was looking for this comment. The view is like: 🥴
It is -- I lived there
Everybody is talking about the size but my mans opened a locked apartment with just a metro.
That part.
Wait i just took that innnnn. Like what if someone came in to use the "bathroom" while you aren't home??
Once you deadbolt it, the apt would be secure. But definitely a NYC classic trick for anyone who forgets to lock the deadbolt haha
that’s concerning
Its no different then your front door if you don't deadbolt it. A flip lock on a doorknob is useless.
I’d never pay $1.000 dollars for that first apartment. NEVER
You might not but some do.
I pay that much for my 2,000 sq ft house.
You could get a full house with a pool for that price in the Caribbean
You couldn't pay me a $1,000 to live in that shit hole, let alone give a $1,000.
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When "you have a bathroom in your apartment" becomes a selling point . . . time to fall in love with a different neighborhood.
Time to fall in love with a different state 🤣
Or a different state
Couldn’t even pick your nose right in that first one..... no room
Time to fall in love with a different state
No joke.
Even people in California are freaking out over these prices LOL We pay $1,500 for tiny apartments too, but we get a lot more for our money, like central A/C, swimming pools, playgrounds, gym, etc.
The first one is NOT an apartment. It’s a room in a shared house where you don’t have ANY of your own facilities!
exactly its kinda like boarding house style ......my mom and I also lived in a house like this for a little bit but the whole bathroom sharing thing was weird and she bailed quick LOL
Exactly! A dorm room in a dingy college is bigger. Paying $1,000 dollars is ridiculous.
A closet with electric outlets.
@@naturalforme you realize that a thousand a month comes out to a $238,000 mortgage. Don't live in a big city and you can get yourself a decent sized house with that kind of money.
@@JacobH-zu1lb you realize some people are born and raised in the city right? it's not that easy just to leave
Any "apartment" that's smaller than a prison cell should not go for more than $100/month. 1k is just absolute madness
Same.
1K lol, I have a house with a front and backyard for less. And they say The Netherlands is expensive.
Prison was my first thought
But it's NYC, you basically go home only to sleep 😁
@@BigCrossVita mine too
I’m sorry, don’t call the 1st one apartment. That’s a room. There’s no bathroom or kitchen. Don’t fool people.
It’s basically a dorm
The sad part is it’s 1,000 a month.
@@nicolejoy6618 nah cuz a dorm has more space than that tiny thing 😭
@Annabelle Liu Probably but I’d rather live in Brooklyn since it’s cheaper. I checked how much it would cost to rent with roommates and for a small bedroom and shared living spaces it was 1,000 a month. 😓
@Annabelle Liu it’s horrible $500 for a box on the side walk lmao
this is actually so depressing. idk who in their right minds would pay 1k a month to live in a matchbox
People who fall for the hype of NYC.
Crazy part south Florida is the same way right now…rental amounts for the certain areas is horrible
yeah thats too expensive even if its 500$ bc here in Philippines with that space its only 2000 pesos and thats 40$
im glad that i am a Filipino
and for 1000$ thats my 4 months salary
@@Sixxdee9 hype? What specifically?
@@joesantamaria5874 the glitz and the glam. The clubs restaurants and that can’t afford to stay open after their grand opening because people have the attention span of a flea or cannot afford to patron the places because NYC is so over priced.
They said “it has a good view” and it’s just the side of another building and some dirt where they are about to build lol.
@@MitchMitch77-77 that is true. I just don’t think I could but good on them for being able to
Could be worse.
If they made that land into a green patch, bench, trees, grass, it'd be so nice
@Max Gernika I'd rather have a fire escape to go out there from time to time.
@@MsSphinx91 It would nearly double the living space, for one thing.
New Yorkers have really convinced themselves that this is just fine.
* edit * I come back two months later to a whole soap opera under my comment 😂
Because it is
@@koifishflavor okay then. Don't move here.
@@koifishflavor I didn't try to justify anything because you're nobody for me to feel the need to do so.
In either case, enjoy your day.
I agree. Really not something a rational person would accept. Not me anyway.
@@therealunicornselene You're indeed a New Yorker. Your attitude says it all.
It's funny how in the movies every NY secretary or barman has an amazingly trendy new york loft that he/she can definitely afford 🤓
Yeaah haha always super trendy massive lofts or super high up ones😂
Right, completely unrealistic
@@kaseyhunter6606 cause it's a movie if it is realistic it's just A day in life with someone
DEFINITELY NOT AFFORD!!!
No thanks NY isn’t that special
That space must have felt like a jail cell during the pandemic when bars , restaurants, cafes were closed
That’s why NYC had such high infection rates. Everyone had roommates and shared bathrooms. You can’t space out. It’s not possible for most people.
Yeah. I live in a studio In the Midwest that is almost 500 sq ft with big windows that let in light as well as a storm door I can have open for light and even I was stir crazy. I can’t imagine being in one of these boxes.
Precisely. He even mentioned it in the video. Those small apartments are meant to be where you sleep and eat, where you survive. The city is where you are intended to live.
Wait? Did restaurants actually close in ny? They didn't here. Indoor seating was closed so we had to order to go. Nothing really closed here. I think malls did after awhile. And theatres. And six flags. And water parks. And I also think bars did bc you can't really take alcohol to go. It's so different outside of Dallas. But we're also not packed like sardines here. We did offer shopping times for old people. But our quarantine was basically no school for kids.
Jail don't cost a thousand bucks a month. At that point I might be like: "Fuck it. Crime"
"It's $500 more for the other 50%, that is fair." Has me laughing like it was reasonable to pay nearly 1.5k just to have a kitchen and bathroom. I can't believe that first room was 1k.
Should of been more like 50 a month
Yeah, now imagine you are in school in new York and are paying that high of a lodging free for such a small space. Crazy
@@NG-fk6wc Oh no, Columbia charges 15,000 for on-campus housing, even more for off campus, and they sell out quick off the market. One of my old high school friends relayed to me that he went there for engineering and forced himself to commute from a relative's house in Beacon every day to avoid those prices. The traffic makes up for it though. :P
I live in NYC and that’s actually an amazing deal LMFAOOOOOOihatemylifeOOOOOO
Guaranteed that rent is dropping like the New Year's Eve ball.
The first apartment looks like a study pod in South Korea where students are prepping for college entrance exams.
Man those places are CRAMPED
That's exactly what I thought! I lived in one for almost 2 months in Seoul but I would never pay $1000 to live in one long term.
I lived there 3 months. Never again
“We’re in nyc!” *trash all over the sidewalk*
“What a view!” *ugly factories and broken down buildings*
“You come to nyc to make something of yourself!” *spends hours a week trudging to a laundromat to do laundry, eats only unhealthy take out food cuz there is no time to cook*
Anyone else feeling the cognitive dissonance?
yes, it looks depressing. "You come to NY because you are ambitious and want to make something of yourself!" so you have to have to make $80k+ a year just to live in a normal 1 bedroom apartment and not a prison cell sized room. and don't ever think about doing something crazy like having kids or buying a home.
NYC is loud, smelly, dirty and depressing. And It only looks good at night. In the daytime it looks hazy and miserable.
Yeah this is painfully delusional. I lived in Miami for years and rented a room in someone’s home, had access to a full kitchen and bathroom to myself for $400. I’ll take that again any day over my “own apartment” in New York and I hate Miami.
for the pollution ,narrow space, smoke, overprice and pressure... i prefer somewhere else ngl
The lot across the street is empty before a building is put up. Legit every city has trash on average nyc is actually pretty clean. Unless you film on trash day then well yea there is trash waiting for pick up. The first apt is basically used as a nyu dorm. It is right near the college and most living in the building are nyu students. That neighborhood actually on a nom overcasted day looks pretty nice.
The first "apartment" is sending a message how close New Yorkers and Americans are living to coffin apartments like in Hong Kong.
I think the Hong Kong ones are worse.
Some of the micro apartments are only big enough for a single fold away bed it's true
I legit just watched a vid about Hong Kong coffin apartments before this vid. 😧
New Yorkers are Americans .-.
imagine being in lockdown alone in an expensive ass closet
I'm too mentally unstable for that
I'd rather live on the street than in that box for $1k
Nobody is or was in lock down. You just walk around with your mask below your mouth, it's fine.
Closet?? These are more like some nice ass shoe boxes if you ask me
1k a month for the first apartment?! That's literally MADNESS
it aint to cheap to live in the city!
@@EnesPlus yes for sure but i mean that's a closet or more like a pantry
@@EnesPlus c'mon it feels like you guys are selling gold but it's just pure stone to me, if you know what I mean.
It's not bad. Come to Toronto Canada and see
@ggh546 truly
"What's that, the bathroom?"
"Yeah, it's also the bedroom, kitchen, lounge and dining room."
Ok that's funny
The first “apartment” is what I build my sims when I just need them to survive before I kill them off.
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That’s exactly what that room is lol
You're cute/funny.
I can't decide if that first apartment looks more like a low level correctional facility or more the kind of place you'd keep a hostage whilst awaiting the ransom money 😂
Lol
It’s both 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 no need to decide
@@analea6531 for those prices it's certainly both.
Hell when I was in prison that was the size of my cell
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I can't imagine how awful it would be, to be conifinedto your apartment in lockdown, in that shoebox
literally! i would kill myself
Oh man..... talk about cabin fever !!!
My claustrophobic ass would question my life decisions 💀
Exactly. I could've lived OK in the second one during lockdown but that first one I would've went literally insane.
Constant trips to Central Park, lol. Get a bike and just ride around.
okay but the first apartment looks exactly like axel webber’s
it is! :)
When your stuck at home, sheltering in place, during a pandemic- this would be the definition of hell!
Look at the positive sides of these apartments: Cheap to heat, easy to clean, you never have to walk far, all your things is within reach 😄✌
@@larsstougaard7097 Including the opposite wall! Lol
@@larsstougaard7097 😄🤣✌
Not for us introverts
Been there done that near Disneyland. Lousy roommate was rude to landlady also and got another place to live after a while.🙄 Things tend to work out but you have to put up with s&it.
When you live with family even there can be problems of course cheaper, usually.
Security is much better with others usually. Have my own room and space now. I get good food utilities, not wi fi, have make shift kitchen, storage, $1000.
Share bathroom but gotten used to it. So much depends on getting along with people. If you don't even best places can be terrible.
That first room in my country would be in a building called "hostel" and it's mostly used by backpackers and hippies at $15 dollars the night.
It still would be cheaper to stay in that hostel than in the „apartment”😭😭✋
NYC has hostels, too. I believe they sleep in bunk beds in rows in those.
in the Netherlands you'd call that a student room. but then you'd have an actual kitchen and bathroom to share
$15 a night, vs $1000 a month, $15 times 31 days= $465! 😱😲 less than half the price!
I was in a hostel in NYC once, same sized rooms but with bunk beds + had feces all over the walls, like real shit smeared on the walls and a busted window near the fire escape, so everyone could technically crawl into your room at night. Didnt sleep a second that night.
It's fucking hilarious what these dudes consider a "good view".
Many places in NYC have windows that look at walls. 😅 so technically anything not looking at a wall is a view here
That window in the bedroom/office looked like they were about to put up a building right outside.
@@bertfechner417 I thought the same thing 🤣
Well a nice view of the “pretty” parts of the city adds hundreds or thousands to the price lmao
You’ve obviously never had a view that consisted of a big pile of dirt. And more dirt.
Pretty clean for a shared bathroom. NYorkers don’t notice they live in a box because they are constantly out working to have to pay the rent 😄
Only out of town idiots rent these. Manhattan isn’t only Nyc though.. There are 5 boroughs and big apartments everywhere else.
I'd rather live in a converted van than pay rent on these apartments. I love small places, but the prices are just unreasonable.
Shario D.N. - Climbing stairs is some of the best exercise available. I personally wouldn’t live in the space with no bathroom, but that 2nd apt was sweet. Clean, bright, hardwood floors, new bathroom fixtures, it even has a separate bedroom! It’s lovely! For only $1500/mo?! That apt in the heart of Seattle would be more expensive (quite a bit more). I had no idea such a nice place could be rented in Manhattan for so little. I might have chosen NYC over Seattle 20 yrs ago had I known the Seattle rent situation would eventually make NYC look like a bargain.
True I loved in an old trailer only paid $350 it was tearing apart but screw that id rather lived in the trailer my own bathroom and parking space than these apartments
@@madeleinerose7090 ONLY??? in the Netherlands you get a a small 1076sqft home for that price. this is nuts. this shouldn't go a dollar over $750 a month imo
@@madeleinerose7090 it looked decent, I liked the kitchen
What is a converted van? I’m interested if it’s cheap and decent to live in then I’ll consider the Netherlands or somewhere else jn USA to live in or old I have $3000 saved up in total savings xD so, my budget i can pay no more than $200/month please gimme advice where to find
That second apartment actually wasn’t bad. The stairs would kill me though.
Yes not a bad size, but definitely needs a lift.
I really love the floor and the rest is not that bad.
Apparently that gets you to "fresher air" and the "ability to open the windows"
My thoughts exactly.
Bigger than mine🤭
Honestly if you can open a apartment door with a metro card then your really living on the edge. Its like a gamble now, "will my stuff still be there after work or will it be cleaned out?".
Deadbolt
Get a smart lock door.
That's so dangerous.
Just showed everyone how to break into someone apt ,scary !!!
@@genevievedarrett3163 Without a deadbolt or chain, 90% of interior residential doors can be carded, it's not really a secret. The door has a deadbolt, if you look at it. So the apartment cannot be carded if you just fasten the deadbolt.
I guess with the first apartment you have to make an appointment to take a shower?🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
Just like freshman year in the dorms all over again.
I mean like... what if you had a bathroom "emergency" .. and needed it right now.. and it was occupied ? What then !! omg .. plus what if the person right before you was .. well.. I should not elaborate, you can fill in the blanks... Absolute nightmare.
You can always share the shower. It saves water.
People in Texas be like “My dog’s house is bigger than that!” 😂
Maybe, but you have to endure Texas. Nothing is worth that Hell (I left Texas 20 yrs ago after school; have never even entered its airspace since).
@@madeleinerose7090 whats so bad?
I wasn’t born in Texas but I got here as fast as I could, y’all 💚
@@madeleinerose7090 thank you for leaving, you made space for people who will actually appreciate it.
Lol honestly I live in a 800 sq ft apt for $700 monthly
I actually thought the second place was pretty good.
Agreed
Yeah I'm in a crappy city in California and that price wouldn't be far off here. Maybe more like 1200-1300 so seems pretty reasonable for New York
I was thinking the same thing. I’m comparing with SF Bay Area and I’d pay that.
@@Sergio-wv7ig it’s funny I’ve always wanted to live in New York even if it was just for a year or two but assumed it would be to expensive. Good to know it’s not that much worse than were I live but with a much higher possible income.
Besides the fact he broke into the door with a card lmao
Then the second one you notice the view will be obstructed because there’s a space there for another building to go up eventually
Exactly my thoughts lol goodbye sun light and view!
And the coming noise...... 😱
That's why it was so cheap IMO. Might be worth it though if you only plan to live there for a few months/year before they start construction on that empty lot.
At 1:29 , The Indian God Ganesha was printed on that TShirt
Harry Potter had more room in his cupboard under the stairs than that first "apartment".
Lol!
Lol!
Was thinking bout Harry Potter, too. That´s barely bigger than the cupboard xD
Frickin' dead 😂
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I'm sorry but New York is not that exciting of a city to endure such horrible living conditions. Great to visit though.
The first one was literally the size of a jail cell
You wanna live in the Capital of Earth?
You gotta pay.
@@que3817 I got tree fiddy.
@@greenshrek488 At least with a jail cell, you can sleep on a bed on the ground and not on a shelf. 😭
you dont have to live in the actual city, called manhattan, you can live in L.I or queens or brooklyn for 700-1500 a month and find a studio in queens for 1350
I’d say that first “apartment” was basically a dorm, but at least my college dorm room had a window!
Call it a mental asylum for all the fucks i give
This "apartment" was created as a joke until New Yorkers started renting it.
try searching hongkong coffin apartment
It amazes me that elsewhere in US you can get a BIG apartment with two rooms for less than the first closet they showed. Like you're paying just to be IN New York.
That is what they say, you go to NYC for the city, not for the living arrangements. I might love a city enough to move there, but I need my space to be in decent conditions and comfortable enough for me to do so too.
But the ppl are.... bleh
Yea I had a luxury apartment with 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms that was 1200 sqft that was $1300 a month...thats texas for you
Location $, Location $$, LOCATION $$$$$.😕
I used to rent a 900 sq ft apartment (2 bed 2 bath) for $900. Now I own a 2500 sq ft house and my mortgage payment is still less than $1000. I think I will stay in Pennsylvania!
The way New Yorkers try to justify their insane way of living.
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And they think they're smarter than everyone else.
The entire state is in denial.
Amber C I Agree 💯 %
You mean hipster white and asian people
the video title should be "inside the worst overpriced rooms in NYC"
It's not overpriced it's NYC. Even the worst apartments are worth a lot. If an apartment with the same design was placed in your average city then it would be so much cheaper
Well with limited land and high housing demand prices tend to increase rapidly. Just imagine the price of that apartment in 10 years
1.500$ is literally 3 times more than the minimum wage in my country ,that is expensive as fuck ( i mean 3 times more than you will be payed for a month, i dont know why you people calculate your income by year ), if that is the cheapest...what the fuck are NY people doing for a living to afford a "normal" one
@@nyx5408 the average household income is around 88,000$.
Cheapest apartments prices are around 1,5k to 13k
@@unicornpower2411 in a month or year?
Wow, the landlords are laughing all the way to the bank🤣🤣🤣🤣
$1000 for a small room in a creepy cramped building. That is insane.
I would for sure spend that 1k on a motel lmao
"For the east village this is a great view"
*Pans over to a construction site and a run down building*
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Penne Luna I just hollered !!!!!!! 🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣🤣😁🤣😁🤣😁🤣😂🤣😂🤣😁😁🤣🤣😂😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
@Bob Hartlee ok
Which means constant noise pollution for the next two years hence the low price
@Bob Hartlee I'm still trying to understand the relevance of your comment to my comment
Imagine bringing a girl over and you're like "wanna head back into my hallway?"
@james Nas well I'm fucked. Lmaoo
Q
@@thentantt nah if you find the right girl she won't care about either, just ready her right
It's OK, she's got three roommates.:-)
That’s if you can even get the girl! #foreveralone
I paid $600/month to stay in a 5'6" x 5'6" room in Tokyo back in the day... It was lofted so you couldn't stand up inside and you had to lie down diagonally to stretch out because the room was so small. The walls were made of fiberboard. This looks so much nicer lol
Why did you do that lol
I pay $1,007.00/month for my house in Connecticut. I get three bedrooms, a nice size living room, a nice size kitchen, a finished basement, a 4 season room, a laundry room, and a nice size bathroom and a half. I have a big backyard with a lot of trees and a beautiful deck. I'm at the end of a dead-end street so, it's very quiet. I have two Cadillacs in my own private driveway. It's only an hour to get to Manhattan from where I am.
If I had the same things in Manhattan, I'd be paying more than $10,000.00/month.
I feel so lucky!
Connecticut sucks
That sounds like a sweet deal, especially if you work in Manhattan. Drive a station, park and take a train to the city.
@@Comeswoopfam I can walk around my 4 mile block area at any time of the day and not worry about getting mugged too. I suppose for the criminals, it would "suck".
Cadillacs, eh? Well, I guess that justifies everything. I mean, who wants an all-electric Tesla when one could have a all-gas Cadillac?
@Rim Gh Rats are everywhere. Name any place in the country where there aren't any.
"Everything is a 10 out of 10 for someone, that's why they sign the lease". That's some old school greasy sales bullshit right there.
I promise you they sign the lease on a 3/10 because they can't afford the rent on anything better. You damn well no one their right mind thinks a 120 square foot apartment is a 10/10. Home many billionaires do you know living in an apartment the size of an outhouse.
orrrrrrr they take a bus/car/train/feet elsewhere until they find what they feel is a 10/10 .......Ive lived in partially finished basements growing up in Chicago with a single mom that was a cab driver and college student. The basement was on the dirtest nastiest most crime ridden street........when she moved us to another basement apartment was it a 10/10 in some bougie bitches opinion duh no.....we literally had a basement floor with a drain hole in it and a water pipe with a shower head on it and two half ass finished rooms.......but........it was a 10/10 for my mom because it meant when I had to walk home from school alone.....I wasn't going to be kidnapped or assaulted or worse so.....10 out of 10 is a PERSONAL perspective not a vague one
@@poshbloggeraccount7319 to me 10/10 means it fulfills all you needs and most of your wants. If you wouldn't move back there today even though your financial situation is different than it's not a 10/10.
@@poshbloggeraccount7319 I also lived in a similar situation as a kid, but after having gotten a good paying job and getting a nice apartment in the better area of my city I can say without a doubt that it wasn't a 10/10 where I grew up. There was sentimental value in the memories I made there, but the conditions were terrible compared to what the world has to offer.
Plastic sheeting for walls and tar for a floor, or a jacuzzi tub with high rise ceilings. There's objective improvements to be found in the place you live up to a certain point.
They could always move to a cheaper state haha
It's his job, he had to euphemise it. 😂 You don't tell the people you're trying to sell to that your products are crappy.
"It's a functioning window, thats a big deal" wait what 🙄 so aren't windows suppose to function?? The things New Yorkers consider luxury 😲
@8LJ8 then I’ll just have to move to anywhere in USA or the world maybe Europe or Mexico or latinamerica where the rent is most cheapest for me, I have $3000 saved up in all total so where do I go how do I do it?
I think one part is to prevent suicides or falling and having to be held accountable for that.
@8LJ8 No offense, but the only people that say they would never live in Manhattan are usually those who can't it. If you traded lives with someone who lives in a plush Manhattan apartment with remarkable views of skyscrapers, a doorman, concierge, a gym, laundry, etc., you wouldn't want to go back home. Best city in the world!!! Prices have also gone down considerably because of COVID. I was able to get into a luxury building for a great price. Happiest I've ever been. Love the city.
@8LJ8 Yes, I completely understand. I also love nature and understand not liking the loud and busy city. Didn't mean to come off bitchy, but I'm just really over protective and annoyed when people talk shit about a place they've never been which is a lot of people in the comments. I lived in Staten Island for most of my life, and I also enjoyed having easy access to Manhattan, but not living in the most dense area of nyc. Stay safe as well
Did that first apartment even have a window??? I cant imagine NO window at all?!!
I loved the second place and its price, however I would need a tree outside. I rented a small, furnished studio in the East Village (East 4th Street), for a week in May and was totally spoiled by having a tree and the same little bird that would sit on the fire escape and serenade me every morning. Find me one like that!! ❤️❤️❤️
A tree and a bird ? #blessed
@@lynne523 yes, it was so wonderful! The same little bird would wake me up just tweeting away on the fire escape and fly back to its nest in the tree if it saw me. I put it in my vlog each day when I was in NYC. Here’s one that starts with the bird, if you’re interested: th-cam.com/video/QbhQ-nxij00/w-d-xo.html.
U had a rare nyc experience bless u.
This was cool! The idea of paying a grand for that tiny little room made me cringe, but then again, I don’t live in NYC lol. It would be fun if you did a follow up back home in LA to show what you’d get for those rents.
noted :)
Good point - great idea!
@@EnesPlus There's a place near the Lowe's in LA that is similar to the first place, but it's only $500.
Goog idea. I second thar
Yes, compare to Chicago, LA, and random small town.
the girl who walked by and waved at the camera was so cute! her outfit was so cool, i hope she has a nice day
I thought the same, loved her shoes too
@@anacampos6240 right!! shes super stylish
@Magnitude i guess i am if i wanna compliment someone that looks dope😎😎
@Magnitude disagree
When an apartment is smaller than your closet, yet costs twice your rent
The girl who waived was adorable, thank you for coming to my ted talk
Had so much fun making this!!
Cash is always so sexy 😍
I’m from Malaysia. I followed both of you, enes n cash. And u guys get together! Wow
That's lame.!
Thanks for showing us around Cash we had a great time!
@@milagrosalicea4035 That's why he has 73K subs, because he enjoys his work and he has a positive attitude. Do you have 73K subs and enjoy your work? We can rule out a, "positive attitude".
Watching this from my nice spacious home in Sydney Australia.. This depressed me terribly.. I feel blessed
I'm crying but I can dry the tears with my million dollar mortgage signing
Then I am sure you haven’t seen Moscow apartments))
Enjoy it before death takes it all away from you.
But but NYC is better than Sydney
@@FIR2031 true. Used to live in Sydney, wasn't worth it. Moved to NYC, not the best quality of living but certainly more entertaining
So... what’s the point of them wearing the masks if they’re not going to pull them up when they interact with each other or strangers?
100% agree
There is no point to them wearing masks. Masks don’t do anything lol.
@@MusicalFilly I’m not arguing with you. Take it up with infectious disease experts if you think your opinion on infectious disease prevention is somehow equivalent to theirs 🤗
exactly 😭 like bruh so selfish
Yeah, I they're just wearing them like collars. Bruh
For a homeless person staying on the streets, these apartments are a heaven and a safe place to live in
At 2500 a month. RIGHT.
No.
So I'm just going to safely assume that the apartment on "Friends" must be about $6000 a month.
Monica's apartment was actually given to her by her grandmother, so that's how she was able to live there. As for Joey and Chandler, Chandler made enough to pay for it and even lend money to Joey from time to time. Ross was a professor at a museum so he obviously could afford New York, but I don't know about Phoebe.
@@abbiereynolds8016 from what i remember phoebe didn't live in the same neighborhood for a while and later lived with her grandma who left her the apartment she lived in with rachel and later with mike
But they were lucky . Monica’s apartment would really probably be around 4500$
Yup. It would be !! Very unrealistic 😸
They do talk about "rent control", but yeah, pretty unrealistic. It was the 90s though, like that's 25 years ago, it sure has gotten a lot worse since then
When a closet is more expensive than your mortgage payment.
Thought exactly the same. We own a 3bed house with a massive garden 40mins away from London that we bought in 2016. Our mortgage payments are £1100/month with the potential of dropping at each remortgage. Lucky to have gotten on the step ladder and no need to live inside the city to be able to visit the city at your own convenience. Its a waste of hard earned money, if you spend so much, for so little, spending even more on daily take outs because there's no proper kitchen to cook.
3,000 square foot house, 2.5 acres, pool, tons of trees, full deck... $1,300 a month.
I think I'll pass on moving to NYC.
I pay $970 (mortgage) for a 4bed 3bath, 1300 sq ft house. O can't believe people pay more for like 100 sq ft. Oh, right, "location"
$623, 3 bedroom 2bath 1,300sq ft a garage and a beautiful screened in back porch. I just bought it in December and I love it
@@lisajennette5692 Damn that's super affordable. Where at, if you don't mind me asking?
My bedroom is bigger than that first "apartment" and has a half bath. This is why our 27 year old daughter still lives at home in our 2-bedroom apartment here in Queens. As a matter of fact, her bedroom is bigger. She earns her keep so it's all good
people in the first world are super spoiled. These apartments are mansions compared to the average homes people in some Asian countries live in.
@@eduardochavacano I’ve seen some living areas in Hong Kong and Korea that were very dangerous living situations. Seriously cramped apartment like a coat closet and a fire hazard. I’m glad we have some kind of laws protecting people’s safety.
@@eduardochavacano okay mansion is a stretchhhhhh
South Korea has apartments called “one-rooms” and even those are somewhat spacious and usually come with a kitchenette and your own bathroom....
The bathroom in my apartment is literally bigger than than first one, including the space the separate shower & crapper take up!
I’d like to see a comparison of the first apartment to a cell in Rikers … who has more space? (And yes, I know the apartment dweller can leave at will and that’s a massive difference - I’m just talking physical space.)
I will never understand why people settle for this garbage, "it's NYC" isn't an excuse for living like animals
true this is fucking depressing lmao
Please don't make an opinion if you don't know the details about someone's life.
Imagine, if you invite someone over. Really embarrassing.
Just live in a different borough in NYC (like Brooklyn). Might still be pricey, but living outside Manhattan is generally more affordable with a bit more square feet (if not considerably more space). Commuting from another borough (depending on how deep you are in that borough) can take you 15-45 minutes to get to Manhattan via the subway or bus.
I lived in NYC for 24 years and been living in Missouri the past year and a half. While I appreciate the peace and quiet of the suburbs, I can tell you that there ain't no place like NYC, at least in the US. I lived in Cali, Texas, and Maryland for a few months at a time, and nothing can fulfill me like NYC did. It does take time getting used to (noisy and admittedly dirty depending on location), but once you adapt, you get attached.
Agreed
😂 my only question is, how can someone think looking at another building is a good view? I just don’t get it.
The studio they first showed had a view into another apartment window. If you lived in the first one and moved to the second or third one. You now have a great view. Simply put "good view" is subjective..
The second one actually isn’t that bad
@Tyler don’t need a gym membership so you have a place to do your cardio.
Lol it was bigger than my first home out of home.
Wow! When I lived in New York in the late ‘80s, I paid $600/mnt for a one-bedroom stoop apartment in a rowhouse in the Steinway district of Astoria. One block off of Ditmars Blvd and two blocks from the terminus of the R-Line. Next door, the landlord lived in the street level apartment, his mom and dad lived in the stoop level and grandma and grandpa lived upstairs. It was a great neighborhood, and often, momma Rose would knock on the wall and hand over a big plate of homemade lasagna across the fire-escape on Tuesdays. Life was good.
Don’t think that New York exists anymore, I’m from the U.K that sounds cool tbh. But I think these days people are chasing the shadow of a New York that isn’t there anymore
@@shoazdon7000 ~I think that’s true. I eventually moved back to Seattle and now I live rurally in the northwest corner of the state about ten minutes from the Canadian border. Unfortunately, I filled my now 27 year old daughter with tales of the New York that once was. She married a Coast Guard man and he accepted a position and now patrols New York Harbor. She got her BS degree in Washington and is almost done getting her Registered Nurse degree there, and they are looking to get out. I had to laugh when she said to me the same words I once said to her in warning, “Well dad, it’s been real and it’s been fun, but it hasn’t been real fun.” LOL Cheers
This is suffering and smiling mentality........
A home needs to be comfortable
This is how millions of people in Japan live.
My brother and sister-in-law lived in NYC for a couple of years. They were paying $1700 for essentially a hallway with a bathroom and kitchen. It was insane to me.
He said “it’s a functioning window, it’s a good deal” byeee✋🏼😭
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Lmao, right? As opposed to a decorative window???
They rent it at $1000 completely broken then spice the price up with every little thing that works, like the fucking entrance door that locks and tell you you should be grateful.
"2 soap holders!! You're winning!!" ahahahaah Enes, you crack me up i can't ahahaha
“This is a walk-in closet” 😂🤣😂
Lol
and a small one
that first one is just inhumane and should be illegal for someone to make profits of someones misfortune
its called new york
It probably is illegal.
@@janesimmons8201 the first one is more expensive than my 1100 square foot apartment....and is the size of my closet.
@@MRFLAPPYTREE In every video I watch about living in New York. The apartment is expensive, but hey it's New York! :D
@@saruhhhh Yikes man. Telling all lower income people to just move without considering the people who are forced to live in these apartments probably don't have savings to settle in a new state and would have no family or friends around them even if they do. Not to mention the people who work minimum wage jobs need housing too and in a city as large as NYC, minimum wage jobs sustain it. These apartments shouldn't exist, not that people should just just leave. This is clearly profiteering off the backs of those who have no other choice.
The reason why this is so expensive is because of the location. I'd honestly rather live away from the city if it means paying that much for a freaking micro apartment.
I'd rather live away from the city no matter what.
@@LOTR_BTTF For real!
Location, location, location. I have lived in the same apartment I bought 20 years ago in Copenhagen. The value of it has like gone up like 700% in that time. Its crazy, every person should be able to afford a reasonable place in the city. If you are a teacher, nurse or policeman you should've to live outside the city with long transport for work.
In big cities,space is always at a premium..same in London/Paris ect.
Omg the first one is literally Axel Webber’s apartment!! idk why that was so cool to see lol
I will pray for NewYork’s citizens. Their minds must be so far gone to think this is okay.
believe me, real NYers dont, been here my entire life and this irks me so much
I know a few places in Chicago that are just as bad.
@@starzzgaming yeah, tourism makes it expensive unfortunately..
They don't. There's just no rent control for shitty landlords, they're allowed to do it because we're america and imposing would TaKe aWaY tHeIr fReEdUmB :(
@@starzzgaming wow no wonder most are in a moood lol
Seriously, as a Hong konger, I could only relate to the first “apartment” or room, the second one already looks like a normal apartment in Hong Kong. If you look up sub-divided units in HK, you will understand the pain. I acknowledge every place have their own culture, economy and many more, but I can’t stop myself comparing these units in the video and the ones in HK.
That second apartment was easily large enough for a family.
As someone's who has studied and written a term paper on the Kowloon Walled City, I feel that. Hong Kong needs a complete revamp. Tokyo is almost at that stage of no return and making cramped "pretty", and Singapore is on the edge.
Ive been to Hong Kong and yes y'all live in closets!!!
i saw a youtube video about the living situation in. HK. I had no idea it was that bad.
My house payment is less than the closet apartment lol. wtf
Do you live in Indiana?
My property taxes are higher than the closet apartment.
@@docapathy6706 St Louis area Missouri. I put a good amount down on it though.
@@joepic85 oh yeah Missouri is cheap as hell
Our house payment is 200 dollars a year. Property taxes. And we pay 100 a month for homeowners insurance. We have a 1700 sq. ft. house, 3 acres, a pool and hot tub, barn, paddocks for 2 horses. We paid it off in 2013. We did our own upgrades (have construction experience). Out in the country. Our nearest city is 35 miles away. Way better than these holes in the wall, except that I will say the third one was rather nice---kind of similar to our house. We'll keep what we've got though, thank you. (Jan Griffiths).
Loved how Enes tried to up-sell the bathroom in #2 ... two soap dishes, now that's living the dream 🤣 I was going to say this is more expensive than London then I remembered someone paid £400k for a parking space a year or two back. Great video...now I know if I ever wanted to live in NYC I'd need north of $2k a month for the rent or therapy for claustrophobia :)
mikey is so adorable, like a teddy bear
Mikey!!!!......u need to connect quick😁
MIKEY let’s get a close up on this
Lol agreed
@@zigx2775 Agreed, he should strike whilst the iron is hot :-)
Getting a close up on this
I just want to know how much the “Friends” apartments would go for based on location & size
What about the HIMYM apartment?
@@TSV805 wow Monica lucky as shit !!!
@@TSV805 what about Joey ??
@@DontMoveWock duh, he's a movie star
@@april4657 Joey was absolutely not a movie star by any means
when he said “its technically all you need” for the first apartment, i felt the pain
I know the pain of sharing bathrooms.
@@despairgaming6669 yes you get those wonderful surprises in shared bathrooms 😉💩
My big butt needs more than that... shoot even when I was skinny I still needed more room than that!
“Two soap holders, you’re winning!” 🤭
The title of this video should be "For this area, this is fine."
This entire video is one big justification attempt for the shitty rental options in NYC.
Based on this video, the place I rent here would be around 3500/month and I pay less than 1/15th that.
I get a full bathroom, washer, dryer, big kitchen, and a large bit of land with grass and very few neighbors.
These places are a joke.
I live in a 2,700 square foot house with two car garage and a swimming pool that was built in 2010. Our mortgage is about as much as these apartments!! Wow!!!
In NY??
I don't live in NY...I would never want to. I could never imagine paying a payment that high. We built our own house too. It's 2600sqft, has a 2 car garage, a 3 car shop building, and it sits on almost 6 acres of land. My house payment cost less than the first apartment that was shown....
What I got from watching this video...people move to New York.... go out into the city to "to do their thing". Why are they working so hard if they're not even investing the money into their own future? You know... when that time comes, and they are unable to go out into the city to do their thing? Then what? No payments made on A house or land. Nothing to fall back on..... just my thoughts.
Same here new 3 bed 2 bath with a pool in Phoenix and paying $1237 for mortgage. NYC is ridiculous.
Where do you live?
It's absolutely how disgusting that first place is, How do people live like that? I pay $1250 a month for a 3 bed house
Lol damn, rent in Ontario Canada an hour outside Toronto is $1300 minimum for a one bedroom apartment. I can’t afford anything bigger than my bachelor (120sqft)
I really count myself lucky..paid less than 350 a month for my house payment and bought a 3 bedroom 1 bath old house with 10 acres. Can't imagine paying that much for something you'll never own.
@@dianawilson8742 that’s a goal right there! I want a 3 bed 2 bath with acreage!
OMG do you live in a farm town or like one of those areas where everyone is out of work because you don't have public transportation and the big job in town is like Walmart or Kroger?
? I pay 3000 a month where i live now and it sucks......I can't remember the last time I paid so little to live in a 3 bedroom unless it was like a trailer or some gross avocado green appliance press and stick tile double wide or 1960s type track house lol
@@dianawilson8742 mortgage........if it was a rental it would like be much more
I like how humble Enes looks, and he took the surprise quite well. Mikey still has his charm too. It's an awesome video. I would like to see more educational side however.
Lets say you tour a mansion or a big luxury home. It's not clear how they maintain:
1) Cleaning
2) Insect prevention (all the indoor-outdoor flow)
3) Maybe some maintenance tips/tricks
4) Some estimates on the prices of all the points combined
It's cool watching you do some different content, but the education you guys put in is my favorite thing.
I would’ve liked to have seen some sort of “before and after”, showing what could be done with the spaces.
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Cash and Enes, wow! That sets Avengers as the second in the Best Crossevers list.
If Cash and I were avengers who would we be?
Agreed!!!
Cap and iron
And Mikey!
@@EnesPlus Doctor strange and cap (cuz doc strange suits you, calm and engaging)
So much claustrophobia watching the first apartment, I had to open my own windows to breathe 😂
lol
Truly 😂😂 goodness.
My anxiety!
🤣😂🤣😂
I spent ten years in the military. It is amazing how little you really NEED to get by on. There are a lot of people in the world who would consider these places as a luxury. Shared bath and water closet facilities were still common in some New York buildings as recently as the 1980s. It's not that bad as long as they are clean and maintained. Of more concern to me than sqft, is safety. You need to take a hard look at the building, and the neighborhood. If your paying $1500/mo for a 1br/1bath, even in a walk up, my guess is that we are talking about a sketchy neighborhood. And doors that can be opened with a debit card are a deal breaker for me. But everybody needs a place to live and I can afford better than that. For some folks, micro apartments may be what they need in the here and now.
"Two soap holders? You're winning!"
I'm sold.
🤣
ROFL
I don't like sharing a bathroom with strangers ‼️
Right seems gross, and like you can’t just walk from the shower naked to your bedroom lmao.
As a young woman that terrifies me.
Especially now with the rona.
I don’t even like sharing a bathroom with people I know 🤣 unless it’s family.
Forget that bathroom situation. Someone could be in there a half hour.
The first one was depressing.
Had an apartment smaller then the first one. But it had a full sized fridge, small counter, sink, small oven, TV, microwave, appliances, utensils, towels, twin bed, desk and went for 650 a month with a shared bathroom.