Good areas to live in New York?

brooklyn's where it's at... living in manhattan sucks. try williamsburg, though it's a bit like shoreditch sponsored by mtv. i lived in carroll gardens and really liked it. in manhattan, the lower east side is good fun, but it drove me craaaaaazy living there.

+1 My sister lives in Carroll Gardens and it's great. The surrounding areas are nice, too. It's probably all a bit too expensive now, though.

Williamsburg sucks.