i know a beautiful apartment in pittsburgh for $450 a month. i lived in it for 9 years! not the greatest hood, but close to the bus and a 10 minutes bus ride from the most culturally and artistically vibrant neighborhood in the city (south side).
it does sound like you need to think outside of your comfort zone on this. a smaller city like pittsburgh or cleveland or baltimore would give you a great opportunity to take care of yourself and recover a bit from what you've been through lately, while planning your next steps. and those smaller cities, while they are not new york, do have a lot going on. i am as new york a person as it is possible to be, but i was happy in pittsburgh for many years doing my own thing musically and artistically. there's more going on that you think.
honest to god, i dont know if you could pick a worse place to not have a secure job than new york city. i have lived here several times without steady work and i always ended up leaving. it's just not a good place to be poor.
you might be the kind of person who has to be thrown in the deep end to learn how to swim, but you might also look at seeing yourself that way as a limiting belief. it's going to be really hard to live your dreams if you are worrying about where you're going to sleep and what you're going to eat. first things first.
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