I'm not there yet, but i've stumbled across something amazing.
My biggest worry for moving to NY is finding apartments. It seems like I have two choices
a) I sublet and live with some other people. This is probably what i'll do at first.
b) get my own place. this is what I really want to do.
So why not just do b? Ahhhh... thanks for asking. Unlike in the UK, nearly all NY apartments are sold unfurnished. In the (brief) search I've done so far I've found very few apartments that can be rented out with furniture. I don't know how long I'll be in the states for, so buying an apartment worth (even a tiny NY apartment) of furniture seems like a rather daft and frivolous thing to do. Also, I'm not really going to bring any stuff over with me.
But I have an answer! And it is here...
http://newyork.craigslist.org/zip/
More free stuff than I could shake a (free) stick at! So why not rent a place for a month or so while I get my shit together, then get my own place and fill it with free crap from around New York?
This will have lots of advantages, these are:
a) Get lots of stuff for free
b) Get to see lots of areas of New York as I travel around looking for stuff
c) Get to meet lots of people I wouldn't normally meet
d) The stuff I do get will have more character and be more interesting than any new stuff I buy (especially from Ikea. That's right Ikea, you heard me...)
There are basically no disadvantages to this, other than having to get all my stuff back to my apartment again. But there must be a multitude of services set up for this very purpose. Even if i buy new stuff, it'll still have delivery charges.
The only thing I'll probably have to buy new will be my bed (or at least the mattress)
Hopefully in a few months anyone reading who is planning on visiting me will be able to come over to a wonderfully interesting apartment full of battered old free crap from all over the city.
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