Provide information on neighborhoods, commute, safety, and expected rent. Help them find roommates if you know people who are moving into NYC at the same time. Once they've found apartments, set them up with utilities.
Most companies that are successful at bringing people into New York do so through internship programs. New York is much less intimidating to a college student looking through internships, who doesn't have a problem with finding short-term sublets and roommates online, than to an adult seeking full-time work.
In my first apartment, I lived with a couple. I was closer to the girl, although I had absolutely no romantic interest in her. (I had a girlfriend at the time and was madly in love.) The couple broke up; the guy was angry at me and, drunk, he attempted to physically attack me. Bad end, because I liked both of them and wish we could've stayed in contact. I packed up and bolted pretty quickly, taking a 1:30 am cab ride to... the office.
For a month and a half, I was living at work. This was a regular office space-- not a home office. I had a sleeping bag rolled out on the floor and used the gym shower in the morning. This was an understaffed, workaholic company, and I had to spend 6-11pm in a coffee shop to get away from "home". When my then-girlfriend visited me in the city, I had to check into a hotel. Being a cheapskate, I lined up a one-star out in Queens.
After that, I found a decent roommate and moved in with him. The only quirk in the arrangement was that he and I had diametrically opposite approaches to the Quality/Quantity trade-off, so I met (or at least heard) a lot of strange people.
Fun all around. New York can be worth putting up with all this, but it can be a bit much to bear.
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Provide information on neighborhoods, commute, safety, and expected rent. Help them find roommates if you know people who are moving into NYC at the same time. Once they've found apartments, set them up with utilities.
Most companies that are successful at bringing people into New York do so through internship programs. New York is much less intimidating to a college student looking through internships, who doesn't have a problem with finding short-term sublets and roommates online, than to an adult seeking full-time work.
We'll definitely help people out with this kind of stuff. If I were to describe my first New York apartment, you wouldn't believe me.
We all have those stories. :)
In my first apartment, I lived with a couple. I was closer to the girl, although I had absolutely no romantic interest in her. (I had a girlfriend at the time and was madly in love.) The couple broke up; the guy was angry at me and, drunk, he attempted to physically attack me. Bad end, because I liked both of them and wish we could've stayed in contact. I packed up and bolted pretty quickly, taking a 1:30 am cab ride to... the office.
For a month and a half, I was living at work. This was a regular office space-- not a home office. I had a sleeping bag rolled out on the floor and used the gym shower in the morning. This was an understaffed, workaholic company, and I had to spend 6-11pm in a coffee shop to get away from "home". When my then-girlfriend visited me in the city, I had to check into a hotel. Being a cheapskate, I lined up a one-star out in Queens.
After that, I found a decent roommate and moved in with him. The only quirk in the arrangement was that he and I had diametrically opposite approaches to the Quality/Quantity trade-off, so I met (or at least heard) a lot of strange people.
Fun all around. New York can be worth putting up with all this, but it can be a bit much to bear.