Tips for moving to New York City

[Evildeadmanwalking77]

@fvgazi:
I'm 34. I was doing the back yard thing in 1999 (I believe they called in GCW) and that's interesting that you bring up HWF. My ex was training, along w/ one of the guys from back yard wrestling, at a school that was run by Mikey Whipwreck formly of ECW. I think it was HWA though and it was run out of some small warehouse in Holbrook. It was so long ago though. I was going to sign up but I couldn't afford it at the time and my crappy job at Borders Books paid shit. He has some other Indy thing going on now, I think it's in Ronkonkoma? I got a flyer for it on my car once in the Best Buy parking lot in Patchogue. What a small weird world man.

[Ziggy]

It's awesome hearing the names of local town here on the forums!

[Evildeadmanwalking77]

Oh and I can recommend what radio stations to NOT listen to: WBLI and Z100! My employees play this crap all day and I want to jump off the top of my building as a result. Although I'm not sure if you'll get WBLI in NYC so you might luck out. If I hear one more Lady Kesha Spears Perry song then so help me!

[gtmtnbiker]

@fvgazi:
I'm 34. I was doing the back yard thing in 1999 (I believe they called in GCW) and that's interesting that you bring up HWF. My ex was training, along w/ one of the guys from back yard wrestling, at a school that was run by Mikey Whipwreck formly of ECW.

So is backyard wrestling fake like the professional one?

I remember as a kid watching wrestling and thinking it was real. My grandfather would tell me that it was fake but I refused to believe him.

[REPO Man]

I actually don't have student loans, cuz I never went to college. Like I said, it's an irrelevant degree for something that most of the great ones do without a degree. Plus, in the time it takes me to earn a filmmaking degree, I could work on a few low-budget indie flicks. I mean, I recently saw "WTC View" and it was pretty much shot entirely in the main character's apartment (only the last 30some seconds took place outside of the apartment). And I've got enough original ideas (some good, some bad, some destined to be absorbed into other ideas down the road) to where I don't even NEED to do adaptations (which I would), and that's just as a filmmaker. As a fashion designer (again, you don't really NEED a diploma), I've come up with a few ideas for clothing lines (including one that I can describe as "Power Rangers villain chic". As a novelist, I've concocted a few other concepts.

But I digress. Besides, a tough city like NYC will humble me, and still provide me with the resources to make all my ideas and ventures (on-demand subtitled live-action Japanese superhero programs, a la Crunchyroll; vitamin-enhanced water without artificial ingredients but with natural flavors) a reality.

[saturnfan]

You might want to consider Hoboken, NJ as it is right across the river from NYC and has very accessible public transportation to the city in the form of a path train that runs all day and night.

The environment is unapologetically hipster and therefore, in my opinion, a relatively nice place to live. I certainly do not consider myself to be a hipster, but the town has tons of restaurants and bars, and is a pretty safe place to live.

Its not a cheap place to live, but certainly cheaper than NYC. You should be able to get into an apartment with one or two people for $700/m, just check craigslist for people looking for roomates.

[Evildeadmanwalking77]

@fvgazi:
I'm 34. I was doing the back yard thing in 1999 (I believe they called in GCW) and that's interesting that you bring up HWF. My ex was training, along w/ one of the guys from back yard wrestling, at a school that was run by Mikey Whipwreck formly of ECW.

So is backyard wrestling fake like the professional one?

I remember as a kid watching wrestling and thinking it was real. My grandfather would tell me that it was fake but I refused to believe him.

Yes, for the most part. The way we did it was we would determine the winners of the matches before we had them, plan our spots, etc. We would fake the punches and kicks the best we could, two of the people wrestling were actually training in wrestling school at the time so they brought what they learned and showed us so nobody would TRY not to get hurt. It happened anyways of course. Some guys would cut themselves for the blood effect, I never did. I guess any "real" parts of it are just the results of the violence. Wow, we're going completely off topic here! Sorry.

[REPO Man]

You might want to consider Hoboken, NJ as it is right across the river from NYC and has very accessible public transportation to the city in the form of a path train that runs all day and night.

The environment is unapologetically hipster and therefore, in my opinion, a relatively nice place to live. I certainly do not consider myself to be a hipster, but the town has tons of restaurants and bars, and is a pretty safe place to live.

Its not a cheap place to live, but certainly cheaper than NYC. You should be able to get into an apartment with one or two people for $700/m, just check craigslist for people looking for roomates.

NO, NO, NO NEW JERSEY!!

Those idiots on MTV near-ruined NJ for me, and you're talking to a man whose grandmother is from Jersey.

And by the way, I've found PLENTY of rooms under $700/mo in New York, ignoring Staten Island (just focusing on the other four boroughs).

[saturnfan]

You do realize that all those people from Jersey Shore are from New York, right?

[BoringSupreez]

my family often mocks me, and my brother has this recurring gag to where when I say something, he says "Would Ben approve of that", referencing Ben Popken, who wrote the article from The Consumerist that I put in my first post. And even when I talked about learning self-defense, he just laughed and said that I'd need a gun!

And whatever I say to my mom, she'll do one of two things:

1) Offer a counterpoint that basically just makes me feel stupid
2) Realizing she has no logical response, just says "Fine, go! Just don't expect me to visit". And that makes me feel stupid.

That's why I instituted the "no negativity" ruling.

Anything you want to do, unless it's working at McDonalds or going to jail, people are going to say you can't do it, it won't work out. According to Rush Limbaugh, it's more important to listen to those who succeeded in what you're attempting than those who failed or never even tried.