Happy you’re here! I’m Cansu and I help international twenty-somethings like me navigate life in New York City🗽
It took me ten minutes to feel like a New Yorker, but it took a little over three years to adapt to the nyc culture and gain the skills and the confidence to say that I’m a New Yorker. People believe you need to live here for at least ten years if you’re not born and raised, so I still have a ways to go.
Even so, I’ve learned A LOT on the way and I know a few tips and tricks that can help you become a New Yorker! I know firsthand how it feels being away from home in a city with this big of a personality. It gets intimidating, overwhelming, and it’s easy to feel lost — but it’s a magical feeling to discover yourself here.
Ok a little back story — I grew up in Istanbul, Turkey as a hardworking girl with big dreams. After realizing I’m not doing the world any good with my major in Economics, I moved to the city to do my master’s in Cinema Studies at the one and only NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Dream school, dream city, dream job. Only to realize my dreams keep changing.
But! I live in the concrete jungle where dreams are made of, and everyday I’m inspired to be the most me, the best me, in New York City. So come join me:)
– Cansu