basically a tradeoff between 2 things — d2ff vs rent.
#3 factor: 2BR, more or less

— other factors
cooking? LG — usually OK
laundry? LG — usually ok
d2ctown? LG — she may need to carry groceries.
minimum stairs? gsword at most 1 flight
chinatown? LG — convenient but clean and quiet?
clean env? LG
tax? LG

— How we (basically I) made the decision on 7 Jan night
My real pain is d2ff. I searched for a max_run_time, failed to find anything significantly better. Basically the only better locations are
* Manhattan, jersey city — 10min less, $800 more, approximately
* downtown brooklyn — nothing found

Second heaviest factor is “no time to view more locations, with wife and under current workload”. In other words, real tcost with uncertain return