It's a great time to move to NYC. It's on the upswing after getting pretty devastated by Covid in 2020 and it's the greatest city in the world. I'm in Minneapolis at the moment and was on the phone with one of my best friends from here this morning who was in NY looking at apartments as we spoke. He has two daughters in school in Manhattan and already got an apartment for them last year, now he and his wife are considering getting a studio apartment for a year just to enjoy the city and be near the daughters.
They are not rich but he's a hustler and has never hurt for money in his life...everyone in NY has hustle. People with no hustle never understand NYC and usually fear and/or hate it. I was just there a couple of weeks ago, staying in midtown with one of my other close friends and his 93 year old mom in the apartment they have had since before he was born. He turned 70 last week. Midtown was amazing to be in, (54th and 1st Ave.), I had never stayed in that part of town before. My stepmother lived in the West Village for years and we used to stay with her when we were young.
Everyone I know in New York is doing fantastic...better than good.