NYC or Bust!

While Maz and I are by no means experts on how to move to New York, we have learned a few things already. So here are some tips for the pre-apartment search…

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I started this post long ago…. as we have said we made it, but it has been crazy so we haven’t had time to write. But here is the post of our apartment search.

So Maz and I were in NYC last week hunting for apartment. After days of checking adds, calling, seeing places, and e-mailing people we finally found a place. I will admit that this week was probably one of the most stressful weeks I have ever had; surprisingly I only broke down in tears once. When we first arrived in NYC I was pretty confident about finding an apartment. I didn’t think it could be that hard. I figured if millions of other people had done it, so could we. (more…)

Yesterday in Washington Square Park was a rally for Barack Obama.  I got a ticket the day before from Maz, who received it from a woman handing them out near the Astor Street subway station.  When I arrived at the park at 3:30 (gates opened at 5:00 so I figured I would arrive plenty early), I was put into a line with people who had white tickets or no tickets (I had a white ticket).  On another side of the park was a line for people with blue tickets or internet tickets.  There were also people with green tickets but I have no idea where their line was.

I stood in line outside the park on the sidewalk for about 1 1/2 hours.  At 5 they started letting people in and this is when it became chaotic and completely unorganized.   Volunteers were supposed to be directing people, but many of them didn’t seem to know where people with the different ticket colors were supposed to go once they actually entered the park.  Eventually I ended up in a massive mob-like line where everyone else (ticket or any color or no ticket at all) ended up.  This seemed to be the place where all the lines from the outside of the park were merged so people could go through security.  So there I was with 20,000 people all trying to get through one of 4 metal detectors…

This mob-line moved about 2 or 3 steps forward every 20 minutes or so.  Some people were getting out of the mob and going over the fenced off grass areas to try to get in faster.  At about 6:30 some people started to chant “Let us in, let us in”.  Around 6:45 the entire crowd started to move forward quickly.  Apparently someone made the decision to just let people in without the metal detectors.

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I got turned down for the job that I had the interview for. Oh well, I will keep trying. There are so many job opportunities out their I know something will have to turn up. I think that it will be much easier to find something once I am there. Now that I think about this whole moving to New York thing it’s kind of funny. Originally the plan was that I was going to find a job in New York that would help pay for relocation, then we decided that we could afford to relocate, but we would have to have a jobs set up before we moved. Now neither of those has happened and now I am just hoping that I will find something before we run out of money. Anyone know anybody that is hiring a sociologist????

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Recently Maz and I have tried to get a hold of everyone we know that is in the NYC area. If you are planning on moving to another city DO THIS!!! While none of the people we messaged new of a huge, free apartment just waiting for us to move in to it, they did have some useful tips. (more…)