• grey_wolf_whenever [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    NYC is ridiculous. I make 100k exactly here (sorry comrades, I'm good with code, I work at a start up, flame me if you have to) and I wouldnt call myself lower class, but its not like I get to own everything. Everything here is just unreal expensive, it sucks.

    • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Engels' family owned a factory, don't beat yourself up about it. Agreed that NYC is some weird hellhole where everything is expensive, but it's also weird to me that I have friends who are like "it's so expensive to live here" on $100k+ families when neighbors down the street with three kids get by ok on $65k. I feel two ways about it, in that the expensive trope is simultaneously very real and something only specific to 20 and 30 somethings "trying to make it" in the city.

      • grey_wolf_whenever [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I totally get what you mean by that, and I think a part of that is if you're moving into the city you're more likely to land in an expensive neighborhood, and it makes all the difference. But it also could just be people in their 20s don't know how to live yet, idk