This is my 3rd year in NY IB, yet I still don't know what's the native New Yorker way to move into a new apartment with all my stuff. I always ended up throwing away all my furniture when moving from on side to the other (ex. LES to UWS)
Need some advice on this.
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1) if you have unique or expensive stuff, then hire a moving company
2) Ask friends to help and move it yourself (ie Uhaul etc)
3) buy new stuff if not expensive or unique
4) What I did in NYC: I only live in furnished apartments, serviced apartments or executive stays (hotel rooms that have a kitchen and feel like home).
Thanks for the reply. How did you always find furnished apartment within your price range assuming you were an analyst.
Feel like a decent apartment is already very hard to locate.
If you are an analyst, I am assuming that your furniture is only furniture - there won't be entire children's rooms, toys, a full bedroom of a married couple, your entire designer kitchen, etc... all of that is missing? I mean, how much stuff could it be? It will fit in a moving van without any issues. And only move stuff with you that is really important to you. Throw away the rest.
I found serviced apartments through a google search and I loved their service. The longer you rent, the cheaper the rates (but it is more than a regular apartment).
Or just ask more realtors for serviced apartments or furnished apartments, I don't think you'd need more than a couch, a bed, a kitchen and a dinner table and a few chairs.
Honestly just hire a mover. Yes it sucks and is expensive, but it’s more than worth it not dealing with the hassle on moving day and is so much quicker than if you try to do it yourself / with a friend. I’d recommend Veteran Movers in NYC - as the name implies, it’s run by vets and they’ve done a great job on my last 2 moves.
Seems kind of wasteful to get rid of everything every time you move, especially if it's not long distance. I can understand getting rid of some stuff because it's a good time to purge old items and things you don't use, but local movers aren't all that expensive. I've got a few pieces of furniture that are coming with me no matter where I move. If you need a rec, take a look at Three Men & A Truck - they're a local company (or at least have a local office) and I've found them to be on the affordable side compared to other companies.
As someone who grew up here (UES), Imma keep it real. We just stay long term. Me and my friends right now (from childhood and home) who I live with do not intend to leave the place/apartment we are in (LES) for at least our analyst time in NYC. If we move cities that is different although all of us intend to stay in Manhattan for our entire lives so I doubt that will be the case. My parents and grandparents who grew up in the UES still live in their same townhomes/apartments. As far as I know, pretty much all my friends/their parents still live in the same places for last 5-10 years. In a city that is constantly changing, it is nice to have a bit of consistency. Would simply recommend finding a place you can see yourself living the next few years (even if you end up moving cities later). Makes life easier. But then again, this comes from someone who has lived here for 23 years already and still will for the next 50 so your experience will differ.
What makes you love NYC so much? I suppose your planning to stay in banking long-term to afford it?
It is home man. I grew up running up and down 5th ave not playing in a suburban yard. I love the diversity and the ability to experience culture from basically anywhere in the world within the five boroughs. I simply do not see myself being happy living anywhere else and would want my kids to experience the same. Coming here in your 20s simply does not yield the same experience. Me and my friends would go to the same bars/clubs that people in their 20s go to in high school, hang out on the great lawn (in the mid 2010s was so much emptier than it is now) and overall just do these things because they were in our hometown not to experience in NYC and that is what makes it different.
I don't understand this perception on WSO that you need to be exceedingly wealthy to live in Manhattan. The transplant 20's lifestyle of going out and dropping 100 bucks on bars and clubs, eating out at restaurants, 50 dollar Sunday Brunch for no reason is not the lifestyle I live nor is it the lifestyle I want to live. I will say while my parents did well for themselves and that allowed me and my siblings the privilege's to grow up in the UES, my best friend who grew up in the UWS lived in a household that made 130k post tax and he lived nicely in a 2 bedroom apartment (only child) with his parents. Yeah if you work a 50k job, you might find it a bit hard to live in Manhattan alone or raise a family on that income, but I have plenty of friends who grew up in households in Brooklyn or Queens with 60k incomes. It is just the lifestyle creep that I have no interest in that causes a ton of unneeded expenses. Even now, me and my buddies yeah we will go out on weekends but we have our favorite spots for restaurants/halal carts basically set across the boroughs and we don't "explore".
Moving apartments in NYC can be a real challenge, but it's totally doable without saying goodbye to all your furniture every time.
My advice would be to plan ahead, declutter what you don't need, and look into renting a truck or hiring a reliable moving company to make the process smoother.
I’ve moved a bunch of times and usually just get a uHaul and then pay people to load my stuff onto the truck and then pay people to unload and I drive in between.
I’ve been there too—my first move in the city was a nightmare. I ended up tossing out a lot of my stuff because I just didn’t know how to transport it. But I learned a few tricks along the way.
If you have furniture worth keeping, consider hiring movers who specialize in city moves. They know the ins and outs of navigating tight staircases and narrow streets. I also found http://trumankisjunkremoval.com/ super helpful for getting rid of items I didn’t want anymore before my last move. They made the whole process so much smoother.
Also, don’t forget to check out second-hand shops or online marketplaces. Sometimes you can find great deals on furniture, so you don’t have to start from scratch.
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