I know that most first/second year analysts in NYC share an apartment since rent is so high, but do you also share bedrooms or do you have a single?
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Typically you get a 1 bedroom and flex out the living room with a pre-fab wall, which will allow you one additional person to share the cost.
You can get a two bedroom with the same concept and have two additional people living with you.
I think if you've heard about people "sharing a bedroom", you're probably confusing physically having two people sleep in the same bedroom and "sharing a one bedroom apartment." The former is what you do freshman year of college, the latter is what lots of people do in NYC because, to quote a man far greater than myself, the rent is too damn high.
Sharing a one bedroom apartment means putting up a temporary wall that splits off a part of your living room and turns it into a bedroom. All that this does is makes your living room a little smaller and gives you one more person to live with, thus lowering the rent per person. I don't know one single person who actually shares a bedroom with someone else, but almost everyone I know that lives with 3+ people in their apartment has a wall put up.
So analysts don't have a bunch of bunk-beds in a warehouse looking like bootcamp (or worse, a cult)?
I've never heard on anyone with a full time job sharing a bedroom. It just doesn't make sense to do so in NYC since so many 1brs are converted into 2brs anyway.
^^^ This is why I don't live in Manhattan. Sharing a "bedroom" with another man is borderline gay.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. (PC)
Another stupid topic...
do you WANT to share a bedroom or do you want a single? do you want to be woken up every time your roommate gets off work or jerks off? Do you ever plan on coming back with a girl?
If you don't care then by all means GO FOR IT. +1 to Smitty for his appropriate, sarcastic response
Lots of people live in studios
haha fuck sharing a bedroom. the last thing i want to have is some loud ass snorring when i get back home at 4 am trying to catch 4 hours of sleep.
I will never understand why people think they need to do this... you are a grown-up, have your own room even if its essentially just a box you sleep in. Seriously, 8x10 is plenty with the amount most people here work. If you live in one of the most vibrant places in the world the last place you should be is in your bedroom doing something other than sleeping (or maybe another couple select activities).
-WN
No
Two bedroom, definitely. Each bedroom has a bunk-bed too, so it really cuts down on rent.
I'm a little surprised by the responses here. Banking is a lot like jail, and like jail you do what you gotta do to get by.
I personally not only shared a bedroom in my early banking years, I also shared by bodily cavities.
The only way this is acceptable, Marcus, is if your roommate was a "she." Otherwise this post has definitely changed my perception of you.
Hmmm... so in your book allowing a "she" to enter your bodily cavities is permissible?
This reminds me of a Craigslist ad I saw a few years ago for a roommate in NYC. Basically this gay guy was wiling to share his room and bed with a guy (gay or straight) for free. The only caveat was that you must sleep naked and possibly have sex with him from time-to-time. LOL.
Regards
what are the exit opps from a shared bedroom? I suppose sharing a room is only acceptable at a prestigious address
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