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How to get along with housemates and apartment housewives in New York

“Dear editor, I am writing these lines while sitting on my suitcases. We are moving out of yet another apartment; this seems to be a common fate for newcomers to New York. Finding your own apartment is not as easy as finding great love,” author Esquire Kanat Beisekeev talks about how he gets along with the rooms and flats in New York.

Photo by Damir Otegen

In New York, almost every third resident lives with roommates, and sometimes these roommates are also apartment owners. Well, what about the owners? Not in our Kazakhstani understanding. In the USA, everything works a little differently: if a person has a lease agreement signed, then he is in charge and can dispose of the living space relatively freely. For example, retake it or find roommates, in English - roommate.

At Brighton, you can easily rent a room from some aunt Natasha, who moved here from Odessa 20 years ago. The apartment, most likely, received under the preferential social program as an allowance, is paid at a low rate, and if there is a free room in it, then she will pass it on. For the amount that will cover the cost of the entire lease.

Some people do not say that this is a serious but sufficient business to feed. Another question is that it is not easy to become an official principal tenant in the United States; for this you need to have a residence permit, a social number and an account in a US bank. Having reached these peaks, I, for example, can rent an apartment in Manhattan and rent out rooms to visiting fellow tourists to New York. So does my friend Vasily, who, together with his girlfriend, rents an apartment of three rooms in the Bronx, two of which are regularly rented to tourists on the site Airbnb.com. It turns out that tourists pay its rent and themselves save on expensive local hotels - not bad.

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But this is possible for me only in the future, but for the time being, my friend Maga is sharing a room in Brooklyn, Church Avenue, where we are probably the only representatives of the Asian race. The rest of the population is black. We are somehow lucky in such areas.

In Brooklyn, we rented one big room for two, 930 dollars per month. The house is of course not the best, the room is appropriate. Other options are simply not found.

During the acquaintance, the hostess had the very charm - a cool, fun elderly aunt. She joked a lot, laughed, asked where we came from, what we were doing. In general, we liked it. We agreed, settled and seemed to have healed, but after a few days, the hostess showed her real temper. I started to cling to every little thing: now we walk noisily, then we go to bed late, then we don’t turn off the light in the corridor, then too often my floors are in the room - the neighbor complains from below.

We did everything wrong, in the opinion of the New York housekeeper, who has become a real householder for us. Somehow we had dinner in the kitchen, so she made us stand up - it turns out we had no right to eat there, we should do everything in our room. Although at first the conversation was completely different. At this place I want to put a sad smiley.

I didn’t communicate with the owner, pretended that I don’t know English at all, in response to any grumbling I just smiled and waved my hands. All negotiations led Magee. Once we delayed the rental of housing for just a couple of days, so she began to threaten eviction.

At another time I almost called the cops: after coughing at night, for some reason I decided that it was because of us, that we were smoking something suspicious. It was at 6 in the morning, we were asleep and in general, by the way, we do not smoke anything.

Sorry to write about the old woman. I can even understand her. A lonely grandmother, forced to live with rooms from all over the world, replacing each other for many years.

Children are adults, they live their own separate lives. Every day at 6 in the morning she gets up and is dragged to work at the hospital, comes back to dinner, sits down at the TV and watches every cohabitant. Boring, meaningless life, albeit in New York.

Photo by Damir Otegen

It seems to us that people here live happier, more carefree than we, because they were lucky to be in such a place. But it is not so. In this city, you just have to smile at each other, it’s easier to survive. And when you approach a person and see his real life, it turns out that it’s not even the case that it’s not easy either, and here, of course, you also have to earn by the sweat of your brow, feed the children, pay the bills, the saddest thing is she can be as dull as anywhere in Priaralsk. A man sits in four walls and stupidly stares at the telly, and for nothing that these walls are New York.

In New York City on your way come across different people, good, kind and not very. As indeed, everywhere, I just have not been everywhere.

Outward friendliness is generally capable of deceiving our people. Smile is good, but formal politeness and openness should not be taken for something more. When it comes to business, everyone forgets that they were smiling when they met you. And the cute hostess turns into a monster.

In New York, I have a haircut at one Uzbek from Tashkent. By the way, they keep the entire hairdressing business here, and deservedly: it is convenient for them to have a haircut - high-quality, inexpensive, always with good discounts. My barber has been living in New York for more than twenty years without going anywhere for business or pleasure. Every time I come to him, he tells me, like the first time, that he hates all New Yorkers. Directly and says - with pleasure, in Russian, turning around after the next client. On the one hand, this is not good, but on the other, after twenty years of sitting without leaving the city in a dream, you will not be so drunk.

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