On Thu, 02 Oct 2014 12:25:07 -0400, KC wrote:

if you
live in NYC and make 130 and are still struggling to maintain a "middle
class" lifestyle, maybe you "sacrifice a little", move out of the city
20 miles, buy a car and live like a king...

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Not really. All of Long Island is expensive, as is North Jersey,
Westchester, Rockland and Fairfield counties. You'd have to go 80 or
90 miles up the Hudson or way out into central Connecticut, well away
from the coast and NY metro area.