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If You Moved to NYC …
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… and money were no object, where would you live, how would you spend your time and who would you hang with? Would you buy a sailboat and spend your summers on the Hudson or in the Hamptons? Or would you put all your money down on a sweet pad overlooking Central Park? Dream big and share your thoughts here.
I would go to every museum and gallery I could fit into each week and I would go back to school. I would walk everywhere, visit old haunts and learn today's NYC.
WOW! This is awesome. What a dream come true. This place is gorgeous…I want to win it really bad. Thanks HGTV
Money no object. I would have both a 2 bedroom flat in doorman building
with grand views and a pool on the roof, and a luxury houseboat with a
boat slip to dock the boat. When on land, I would find a couple of different street benches so I could unobrusivly watch people and write thoughts in a notebook or just my food shopping list.
I would love doing the art scene, and immersing myself in all the different cultres. Just living the dream.A boat slip in savannah with a bech house for land life. Not much, huh? lol
I was born and raised in Queens, NY – spent my summers in Southampton and worked in Manhattan for many years until I was tranfered to Richmond, VA for work. I miss New York so much and would just LOVE to have an apartment in Manhattan and a house in the Hamptons on the water – that would be just a dream come true!!! Once you live in NYC – there is no place that compares!
” If I should win this Urban Oasis
It would be nothing short of heavenly bliss
With beauty so rare, a jewel to the eye
Every one is dreaming of this view in the sky!
And my oh my! so am I!!!
Hi everyone! I am a somewhat new New Yorker, having grown up on the West Coast. My husband and I are in the arts, and have come to NYC a little later in our lives. I am actually a working actress for the stage and he is a theatre director and developer. We love it here and have really found an artistic home. But pursuing your dreams in this incredibly expensive city is not easy. Especially since we're a little older and looking for some stability in our careers and our finances. The futon lifestyle is far behind us, and yet our taste and age can't change the fact that we are artists living in the most costly city in the country and even though we have seen success, we are struggling. We discuss finances on a daily basis, and sometimes wonder if we should have moved to NYC. Every time we begin to doubt, a little ray of sunshine breaks through the dark and we are able to hold on for another month or two. All that to say, a luxury apartment in this lovely but also frightening place would be a GOD SEND. Not a day would go by that I wouldn't plop to my knees in gratitude and pure joy. I would give anything to see some relief in my husband's face. We've thought about quitting show business so many times just so we can have some peace of mind…and we're more successful than many people here trying to live and work! I love New York, and I love working here. This apartment has the power to be really life changing for us. I can't wait to enter on Sept 1st! And, I do really hope this beautiful place goes to some struggling artist out there that can accept this love letter of an oasis with a grateful heart that will give back to the New York community through their art.
i would love to go back to new york…we live in virginia now but my husband works in new york! if we has a pad of our own my husband wouldn't have to live in the basement of his sisters house, weekdays. we would be able to visit my husband on some weekends! We would be able to show our boys what is so exciting about living and working in new york….new york is a classroom in itself. it is full of culture and diversity!…Oh how i miss NEW YORK!
would love to move back to NYC TO BE CLOSER TO MY DAD who is up in age and can use my help this would be the only way I could move back
What does Cass stand for? Wrote a message and it got lost. Starting over. Guess we are timed and my dogs kept wanting to go out. I am an artist too. Our types always hope the winner is an artist. Probably because the HGTV home giveaways are "artsy" or close to a great community of art opportunity. Likewise, the NYC location. I am in New Orleans, Land of Pesky Disasters! With my eye on escape and finger on the red button for 2012. NY is expensive but it offers more options and bigger opportunities. "They" say?The artist I am with, has a son on the West Coast doing documentary/movie art. Very expensive to live there too. How long have you been in NYC? Your reference to frightening place, means what?
OMG…..what a place!!! I LOVE NEW YORK……and the apartment is just my taste as far as decor. In a million years…this would be the ultimate of ultimate having a place in NYC!!! I entered a couple of dream home contests…..but not the last one! I WILL enter this Urban Oasis contest…….and keep dreaming each time I enter. Just maybe……I could win this and if I did, I'd just die from excitement….hopefully NOT so I can enjoy NYC forever.
Winning this would indeed be a dream come true! I fell in love with NY last year when I visited the city! If money were no object I'd love to have an old elegant brownstone, and live close enough to have morning walks in Central Park (and other beautiful parks in the city). I'd enjoy shows on broadway as often as possible and dine in as many of the awesome restaurants in the city as I could. I'd spend time in the museums and galleries and be involved in projects related to NYC. I'd love to have a place away from the city to 'regroup' and relax…not sure where that might be. I'd have family and friends come often and delight in showing them the beautiful city!!
Soon we may enter to make the dream reality. Oh what a reality it will be.
I would love love love to live in NYC!!!! If I had my choice I would love to be a little above street level with floor to ceiling windows to feel like you are right in the middle of it all even at home with a cozy livingroom with high ceilings! don't get me wrong I would love the W and if I won I would try so hard to keep it because God knows the taxes alone will be steep! my kids are just old enough now where they will really have there own lives soon but will definately visit and then I could finally pursue a carrer in design and have my husband there with me when he is not out to sea and I would drown myself in the arts and culture of the Big Apple what a dream come true that would be!! Good luck to all!
I grew up in New Jersey and have lived in the Midwest for the last 35 years. Went to New York on vacation last year and actually cried when I saw the city lights below me from the airplane. I couldn't believe how much I missed the city until I was back there again. This would be a dream residence. It is so beautifully and practically decorated and what a joy to just be in the center of everything the city has to offer. Great job HGTV and Vern. I haven't been as excited about any of the other dream homes as this one. I guess because it reminds me of my youth and the great trips to the city.
If I lived in NYC and money was no problem, I would open my own store that has a bit of everything in it, I like to work. And I would live in G.W.V and I would visit all the areas of NYC and have my Family come and learn what The greatest City in the wold has to offer. Then they will under stand Why My family and I love it there so much. We have been there 2 times for vacation and I am missing it so much. my kids talk about it all the time we live in Texas and I have only NYC pics hanging in my living room. But while I lived in the best and most exciting place in the world I would live life to the fullest.. I love NYC
I would spend my days walking the streets and experiencing the city and the people in it!
If I was able to move to New York City I think I would live somewhere near Manhattan only because I've heard nothing but great things about the area and let's not forget about the infamous "Sex and the City" showing how wonderful NYC and the surrounding areas can be! I would spend my free time visiting all the various art galleries, central park, and soaking up all of the city I possibly could. The most fun thing I would do is actually going on right now… New York Fashion Week!!! I would love to say I attended at least once but my dream (and yes, I love to dream big) is to one day be featured as a designer in Fashion Week.
I lived in NYC many years ago and I loved it, there truely is no other city like it. It has always been my dream to come back one day and live there again. If I was to win the wonderful apartment I would l explore the city as it is now and be renewed to the energy the city has to offer. And that the apartment is in the area where the attacks happened makes it all the better to come back stronger then before. It would truly be a living dream to live in the city and the beautifuly decorated home such as this.
I live in NYC now and I never want to leave! Im almost a native new yorker (6 years and counting) I know the ins and outs of this town.
If I won the Urban Oasis contest, saying dream come true is an understatement. The location for the new W is out of this world….I mean, whooo lives down there??!!…I've never met one person that does. The financial district and the whole water street stone street area is well hidden secrets to tourists and a true NY gem… Id spend my time learning the new neighborhood, all the local eats and taking in how quiet I imagine downtown can be on a Sunday morning, when the offices are closed.
If money were not an object and we moved to NYC, we ( My husband and I, and maybe family too when visiting us) would want to see the sites, and lean about the city and go to Ellis Island, and the Statue Of Liberty. We would want to take time to visit places like libraries and places of culture. Yes, maybe going in a Sailboat also. Purchasing perhaps, a Sailboat, if enough money, and guess we would have enough. ..
Most of all ,our home would be our little sanctuary, our place of beauty and peace. A place like this apartment overlooking the Statue Of Liberty is perfect as the views are out of this world! We would just want to go to where the people are that have education and money, but also look around to learn all we could about the city. But we know that those you are with, can t each you so much. We are not the partying type really ,and not saying we would not have a wine from time to time, but we would live quietly taking in the "good life of culture more, like museums and historical places etc" and also want to go shopping ( to a degree) and buy nice clothes in order to look great while out on the town visiting the sites.
My grandmother was in an Orphanage when growing up ( Hastings on the Hudson) a Baptist Orphanage(Late 1800's)and later on ended up in Upstate NY, and in a small rural area, and I have been where ever since. But we had family in NYC an they would come to visit. They would be dressed up so nicely , One cousin of my grandmothers was beautiful and dressed so richly and worked in a very elite office in NYC. and had fine jewelry and I was so proud to have them being"family". I never had a chance to really go to NYC much.. Only once to see Baker Street ( Broadway show) My mom was asked once while trying on clothes in our small town, when she was young, to go to NYC and be a model, but she turned it down as she did not know if she could make it well in the city after growing up in the country? But mom was so beautiful also : Blond and blue eyes but they would turn gray or green depending what she wore. Someone saw her trying on cloths in a store and they were a "buyer" from NYC, and asked her about doing this .( Actually he asked the manager of the store to talk with her.)
Enough boring you with memories of old, and how actually we never had this chance to really take part in what my mom's family would have had if they stayed in the NYC area. Also dreams that would be lovely if real.
I know there is much to see, and learn about ,and take part in, and then time to go home to the "sanctuary again" and then go sailing, and relaxing in the area park by the water maybe the next day. (My husband is retirement age,( but has three more yrs until full retirement and does not dare quit working as we must pay bills.. and I am on Social Security now). OF course we are saying money is no option so we would not be working anyway!
Have to admit if we did take a trip or two it would be to Greece, Egypt ( well maybe not so much with problems we are having now ) Italy, France. But mostly could not wait to get back home, am sure but would love getting to visit if we had all the money needed.
Also first and foremost would pay off bills and surely would help the children too to at least be safe and comfortable enough. Helping our church some too.
We would need an accountant to help us, with the money of course, and we are not big spenders to be honest. So when we did it would be for nice items but thought would go into it and gifts, from time to time, for those we care about.
But it would give us'' peace of mind,''' knowing money was not going to hinder us anymore to live.. and that alone is worth every penny!
And any extra money certainly would need to be given to charity but not just any charity to a very worthy cause or two that we feel strong about.
Thanks for reading and pray you were not bored!? But this is how we would probably think and live and take "one day at a time"
If I moved to Long Island I would pursue my dream Job and start a new and cool talk show, nothing boring like you see every morning, it would be a Very Good morning show, and the people could not wait to turn it on. Then I would take some of advertising proceeds and really get into the grass roots of america and empower and bless people, and help to provide them with the education everyone in this country deserves. There is so much I would do to empower America! I would make America Stronger! I would definitely support the Arts! I would definitely spend part of the summer in the Hamptons, I would hang with other talk show Celebrities, and Mentors who had a vision and creativity, we would spend time on the boat collaborating new and exciting Ideas for our shows!!
I would buy a Beautiful little home, then, I would get down to the nitty gritty and REALLY help make a difference in the poor section of town, I would further beautify the City, I would empower the little people by helping them help themselves and help them get the basics, so they could educate themselves, so they would not struggle, because getting an education is first and foremost, We should invest in the people first because one person can change the World. I would start my own High School and then College, and the Not-for-Profit organization, the profit would be what the people five back, it would be what they leave behind, it would really matter! Because Education is the most important investment a person can make, WE the people First, that would make America stronger and Proud again, then and only then could we help others. God helps those who help themselves, but the people cannot help themselves when they have no power to do so, and a lack of vision, is from lack of education. I would REALLY make a difference in their lives, I would invest in the people first. Build them affordable housing, create tons of jobs, I would set an example that money is no object when it comes to really Blessing others, and empowering them to live out their dream, then I would get others to join my vision and really Bless people all over the World, I would bring Life and Love to Others… Money being no object, for I would not fix my eyes upon the money, but the Faces of the beautiful people, and we are all beautiful, everyone is beautiful and born with a special gift, and their would be an explosion of new ceativity, and I would help them realize their potential, and help them really live their DREAM!! I would Empower the People through education that is what I would do!! Because that would make America stronger, and instill our moral values again, the World would once gaze at her real freedom and see her inner beauty, we would really be that light in the darkness the World would trust her once again. For our love must be in for people of this World! Our investment must be in the People first if we are to be strong again, things would work, lives would be enriched.. all having a trickle down effect. Wouldn't that be awesome!!
I just recently visited this area of NYC and absolutely love it. The promenade by the River is fantastic! You can walk all the way to the South Street Seaport. The views, of course, are wonderful!! Who would not love to live in the city, with the Statue of Liberty in the background, how can you miss!! I used to work downtown and there is so much to do and see. I could die for a good NY pizza, bagels and just some great times in the city. I live in FL and It would be the dream of a lifetime to win this " Urban Oasis".
Having the opportunity to be able to live in such a beautiful place would be a dream come true. I often dream of living somewhere where I can be inspired, and this truly is the place. I imagine sitting in peaceful evenings in my new apartment, sipping a glass of wine, while finishing up a painting or short story I have written while gazing out over the beautiful skyline filled with ambiance and twinkling lights from the exciting city below. I would love the opportunity to experience my dream!