Joe Roommates, or they're lucky enough to have rent-stabilized apartments or bought a coop 30 years ago, or they live with family, or family helps them.I'm 52, finally making ~$70k, with overtime and bonus, never made more than that,  and lived in NYC my whole life and thats how I got by, done all that besides owning a co-op (I almost bought a studio near the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1999 for about $70k), but I always managed in Manhattan and Park Slope by sharing with roomies and later, had a very affordable 1br stabilized apt., which I had to myself until I got married,  my ex and my daughter are still there. For the past dozen years I've lived in the family home on Staten Island, where our family has been for 50 years, my 86-year-old mom is my roomie.

Joe Roommates, or they're lucky enough to have rent-stabilized apartments or bought a coop 30 years ago, or they live with family, or family helps them.I'm 52, finally making ~$70k, with overtime and bonus, never made more than that,  and lived in NYC my whole life and thats how I got by, done all that besides owning a co-op (I almost bought a studio near the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1999 for about $70k), but I always managed in Manhattan and Park Slope by sharing with roomies and later, had a very affordable 1br stabilized apt., which I had to myself until I got married,  my ex and my daughter are still there. For the past dozen years I've lived in the family home on Staten Island, where our family has been for 50 years, my 86-year-old mom is my roomie.

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