I live in NYC on $53K/yr: ‘You don’t need to be making six figures to have a good life in New York’

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Eileen Tyrrell lives in Manhattan and earns about $53,000 a year as a bookstore manager and freelancer.

“I love my job,” she says. “And I feel very lucky to get to say that, because I have so many friends who kind of hate their jobs.”

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