If you're willing to look outside Manhattan ...

Only a 325 Miles commute away?

LOL, Matt. The second picture of that listing clearly shows the ET-like water tower within full view of the property. Simply charming!

You laugh, but I know a few people who live in PA and work in NYC. They only go home to see the kids on the weekends. One is a COUPLE where the granparents move in with them to take care of the kids Mo-Fri...

sounds like a fabulous life--abandon my kids in some hideous town in pennsylvania while i spend the week living it up in manhattan. why did i never think of this before?

Hey, watch what you say about Pennsyltuckie. It's my home state.

don't forget the 1% local PA Berkheimer tax..gag

..or 1.25%+ in other jurisdictions

So now can someone explain me why to renovate a1200 sf apt in NYC cost about the same as buying an house outside??

switel, people ask outrageous hourly rates to do things for you in Manhattan. You have to negotiate hard, but also exercise some prudence and learn to refurbish and re-use as much as possible, unless of course, you can afford to splurge on a gut renovation. Last year, on a friend's recommendation I had a contractor quote me on a gut of a bathroom. He said it would be 3 weeks and cost $15,000 in labor only. That is $1,000 per day for the stated three weeks. It works out to $125 per man-hour, and that is if two men are working non-stop for six available working hours per day for two weeks (there will be downtime). A licensed union plumber costs $84 per hour but probably only needs to be there a day or two. This contractor asked if he could use my bath and I said no problem. Well, two months later I was wondering why my toilet appeared terribly soiled soon after cleaning. I opened the clean water tank and the base of it was filled with a brown silt that would leak into the tank. Was this the work of an unscrupulous contractor trying to influence me to gut renovate? Probably, as a disgusting and thorough cleaning of the water tank led to crystal clear, trouble free use. Lesson, watch your wallet and never trust a contractor to use your bathroom.