https://twitter.com/itsmatthew124/status/1438217812141555712?s=21
People live as ‘well’ (or poorly) on a minimum wage in NYC as they do in any other part of this shithole country. When r*dditors say ‘I can’t even survive on 120k’ I want to personally murder them. Like, yes, we all deserve a better wage but you know these people are simply saying ‘I’m not the poshest shithead in this town and I have to live next to better educated immigrants’
The Bay Area is about as expensive as NYC and 400k is fucking LOADED. That's more than like 99% of wage earners in the USA and nearing the top for anyone who isn't a big dick capitalist
Anything less than 100k in the Bay Area is basically poverty lol
well I mean at least if you want a "reasonable" standard of living (closer to what most people's parents had). My dad makes roughly 100k and he only makes just enough for the mortgage
Lmao, I live in Manhattan on rather significantly less than 400k with a family. I'd be eating fucking lobster every day on 400k, granted I don't have 4 kids, weird metric to use
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I'll see if I can grab a picture of the areas in my local where the water has been dripping on the floor for so long it forms mineral deposits an inch high
The NYC subway system has the potential to be excellent, but is resting on its laurels (and struggling due to climate change). The freedom the system brings you is a beautiful thing, too. It's a good system with fantastic aspects (express services) but is held back due to deferred maintenance and awful governance.
Absolutely, it's just really sad what decades of systemic neglect have done to it. Don't get me wrong, I love the subway. I haven't owned a car in over a decade. It's just that the daily experience of being in the physical infrastructure is generally pretty grim
This is literally what I see every day when I go to the subway:
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unfortunately this is the best that :amerikkka: can give us. Xi please come liberate New York
I miss New York so fucking much. I was born in Rye, grew up mostly in Vermont.
Lol I'm so broke I can barely pay the mortgage on my $1.6M home!
The free market is telling these people not to live in a "major city". Why aren't they listening to the market signal?
because the market signal hurts my feelings so it's communist and not a real free market
upper middle class
goddamn every American insists on being part of the fucking middle class just say wealthy
"Oh you know me, just a humble middle class so-and-so. I'm not wealthy!"
Often just a code word for saying "white people" without just coming out and saying it.
It would be one thing if they were just lying and spreading propaganda, but the way they talk about it... They legitimately believe this. Like, the idea that they couldn't pay to put their children in elite private school legitimately seems like not really living to them. People without money don't live, aren't alive, aren't people.
Exactly, why in the fuck would you have a car? Why would you buy a 1.6 million dollar home? Contrary to popular opinion not all 4+ bdrm apartments in manhattan cost one gorillion dollars.
They sound like dumbass transplants who’re so used to living in their enclaves that they can’t imagine not living in the absolute most expensive parts of the city.
I just did a quick search on Zillow and found a 4 bd for 500k. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/303-E-57th-St-37DE-New-York-NY-10022/2073572102_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare
I will say that a monthly pass for MTA is $127/mo so for two adults that is already $254.
And the home is $2m. The mortgage is $1.6m. If you're in the southern parts of Manhattan it's not wild that the condo/townhome is that expensive. Plenty of places much cheaper than that though.
Definitely the life insurance, clothes, personal care products, food, and road trip.
:geordi-no: Progressive Tax
:geordi-yes: Democratically determined economy
Wonder how anyone making less than 400k even manages to stay alive. I guess they should take the advice they hand out to others and simply make 600k per year or whatever and stop whinging.
private school for your kids is an essential item
"No, you don't understand! Since I live in a big city, It's essential my kids don't go to school with those types!"
These are the people saying you shouldn’t have kids if you can’t afford it
Is Philly aight for a transplant? I continue to try and figure out where to live that isn't going to burn down or experience unlivable wetbulb temperatures in the next 30 years.
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Yes but does it have room and love in its heart for my trash ass
Philly Summers already regularly have days in the 90s, and we even reached 97 or 98 for a couple of days in July. It’s very humid most of the summer. Plus the heat island effect is real, as center city is a few degrees hotter than the surrounding burbs. Nights bring little relief as the lows are often in the low 80s.
So you’d need only 10 or so degrees of warming for the temp to stay above 95 all night. Will it happen in the next 30 years? Unclear.
215 feet of sea level rising: stick with NW Phila.
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