<prompt> Human: Hi all,Im going to be graduating college in May and will be moving to NYC to work full time in September. My pretax salary is approx 85k and I wanted to know what of my salary should realistically be allocated to rent. My job is 80 travel, so I will have no expenses from Monday to Thursday. I anticipate having monthly expenses of 50 for commuting on FriSatSun, 350 for fooddiscretionary purchases, and 80 for internetutilities depending on the number of roommates I find. Phone bill is paid for by my company and insurance is covered by my parents plan. My employer also matches 50 of the first 6 of my 401k and I plan to dump 6. I have no student loans and have roughly 8k in my savings and 2k in my portfolio from past internships. Thanks in advance for all the help.x200B;x200B;  <response>: The rule of thumb is to not go above 33 net pay on your rentutilities cost.Sure some places are more expensive but the you thats gonna retire in 40 years doesnt want to hear those excuses. 