I just need a time machine and $300,000.

The rent is too damn high

>[StreetEasy] used search data to determine which places in three boroughs — Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens — are the most popular so far this year. Notably, the Bronx and Staten Island were excluded from the report.

Oof.

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Even if you got a decent rent deal between how overpriced food is, going out, Uber, etc you aren’t leaving your house without spending at least $100 if you do anything.

>1 .Long Island City
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>2. Astoria
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>3. Sunnyside
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>4. Forest Hills
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>5. Ridgewood
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>The most searched neighborhoods in Queens are some of the most affordable.
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>Besides Long Island City, the other neighborhood on StreetEasy’s most-searched list for the last five years is Astoria. The median asking rent was $2,650, and the median asking price was $798,913.

I knew it. It's over for Astoria. Get ready for New Park Slope.

I don't know if I would call Forest Hills or Sunnyside or even Astoria affordable.

Much of Forest Hills doesn't even have train access if I remember correctly. It's a bus to the train, and a bad one at that.

Edit: I was thinking of Kew Garden Hills one neighborhood over, my mistake.

Forest Hills is awesome, and super close to the city via express. I can 100% why people would want to settle down there.

E train, right?

Unfortunately the train basically stops after Forest Hills. I remember commuting from KGH and it was a 1hr+ nightmare every time.

E & F trains both run express from Lexington Ave to 71st-Continental in Forest Hills, then continue all the way to Jamaica. The M & R local trains are the ones that dont go beyond Forest Hills

Yep, but they continue downwards - not east.

This is how KGH has no train access.

Thank God my neighborhood isn't listed.

It'll probably get more expensive but I don't think it'll ever be "new Park Slope". I mean, the architecture is so different, it'll always have one subway line, and it won't have the huge park next to it. It has pluses, just different.

>The most searched neighborhoods in Queens are some of the most affordable.

Id like to know what the writer's bar for affordable crossing over into unaffordable is. Cause numbers 1, 2 and 4 are not affordable for a solo person looking for a 1B who doesn't make six figures or more.

I feel like people have been saying the same thing about Astoria for the last 10 years. It's still not the the new Park Slope.

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You know what? For 150k (give or take) you can buy in the Bronx in places that are livable.

Pros:

multiple train lines

cheap, fresh produce and meat

45 minutes to mid-town

No hipsters

Cons:

Noisy abuelitas playing bingo... They get ornery (fly) like a G6...

Amateur stunt cyclists (they never meat crayon, disappointingly)

That one murder of crows that knows my face.

The weird neighbor with the startling sneeze.

Meanwhile the Bronx has the best neighborhood in the whole city.

don't spoil the secret

Lol what neighborhood is that? Certainly is nowhere near East Bronx.

City Island

How has Forest Hills changed over the past 10-20 years? When I lived in Queens, Forest Hills was a predominantly middle class, upper middle class, and even wealthy (Forest Hills Gardens). A lot of blue collar jobs and also working class families and also Western European families. Has it changed at all? Do wealth folks who want to stay in NYC still live in the Gardens?

Lol. Maybe just maybe they are the most searched for because they are cheaper. Otherwise it’d be all East/West Village

I’ve still never been. I’ll make the trek next spring.

Is this referring to LIC? Because that’s very wrong if it is. 7/E/G/M are within 10 mins. Huge park is gantry. Is it the size of prospect? No, but you’re also comparing two different things - inland park and waterfront park. Both of which have their pros and cons

They said “It’s over for Astoria. Get ready for New Park Slope”. So yeah, I was talking about Astoria. LIC sure won’t ever be like Park Slope. High “luxury” towers as far as the eye can see.

Got it. Sorry didn’t understand haha

Average Astoria rent reportedly 2600. 100k wouldn’t pass the 40x rule for one person.

I feel like it's more or less the same, but probably leaning wealthier simply bc more people know about it now, especially ever since the opening of the stadium has gotten out-of-towners to visit regularly. I remember walking on austin st on a concert night and overhearing a bunch of rando's saying things like, "wow this place is so cute should i move here??"

Nah I'm good. That borough is cursed, that's why it's cheap.

Good, cursed and cheap... you just handed me a yo' mama joke on your own mama.