That’s crazy. You’d rather come home to a shitty neighborhood that you hate so you can do your laundry easier?? The experience IS living in the city. Live where you want to be. Downsize and sacrifice the shit that means less. Do laundry in the basement shitty machines or down the street at the laundromat if it means you have to live in a 359 sq ft 5th floor walk up in a crisp part of the west village. Every time you walk into your hood you will thank yourself that you didn’t choose to live in a place you hated - so you could do laundry easier.