As a visitor to your trip reports, I would encourage you & Mrs. SFO 777 to move to the UES. It is a wonderful experience , that few other places in the world will be able to replicate. Paris and London may seem a little more polished, but living in UES Manhattan gives you a little more grit of NYC living and if it gets to be too much to handle, you can retire to your UES enclave which is so civilized and proper as to be a part of London's Knightsbridge or Rue du Faubourg St. Honore in Paris.. I am being a little tongue in cheek here, but I am someone who has a little bit of experience living in Manhattan. I am well aware of the cost of living ( $10K plus monthly rent etc.for the kind of places you are looking at.) But I do believe there is no other place like it on this planet. Just my humble opinion. However, I would like to offer a word of warning, Manhattan in the summer is horrible. South Florida (where I currently live is paradise , compared with summer in Manhattan). If you do move to NYC, be prepared that in the summer months you may want to have a place in the Hamptons or the Jersey Shore or in Connecticut. If you don't, the heat will be the negative . However the positive will be that you will be able to get a table at pretty much any restaurant that you please.
Last edited by sgh; May 1, 2017 at 10:25 pm