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    TheDataHamilton Nolan
    2/26/16 4:22pm

    My girlfriend and I live together and have a combined mid-100,000's salary- and if we didn’t have a great deal on our apartment, there’s no way we’d be able to live in our neighborhood.

    It really does make you wonder- I feel like we do ok, all things considered. But who are these thousands and thousands of people who are able to afford the condo+$1400/month in maintenance?

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      puncha yo bunsTheData
      2/26/16 4:24pm

      You feel like you do OK???

      Honey, please. You guys are clearly doing fantastically.

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      TheDatapuncha yo buns
      2/26/16 4:26pm

      I also feel like after the rent, the $800/month insurance, the car repairs, and all that, we really actually have no money.

      Our income puts us in something like the 90th percentile nationwide, and more-than-likely the 30th percentile of market-renters in north Brooklyn. It’s a crazy world.

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    Beet ArthurHamilton Nolan
    2/26/16 4:28pm

    This is an expensive city. If you want to plan for your future you have to stop paying 50% of your take home income in rent at some point and save for the future. Making 100k quickly means you have less and less neighborhoods to live in that you can pay rent and pay into retirement (along with all your other expenses) Moving further and further out in order to keep an affordable apartment means you pay more by wasted time commuting - its a situation that is not tenable for a city to keep a smart & talented middle class

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      puncha yo bunsBeet Arthur
      2/26/16 4:34pm

      I would live far as fuck away if it didn’t mean spending half my salary on my apartment.

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      Beet Arthurpuncha yo buns
      2/26/16 4:36pm

      Would you do a 3 hour commute every day too? 3 hours on a smelly how train, with a 30% chance of getting a seat?

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    Rom RombertsHamilton Nolan
    2/26/16 4:36pm

    Landlord: Your rent is higher now because of economics. Please leave your rental cube now.

    Savvy Tenant: I am famous recording artist Moby (this is a lie, unless you are actually Moby), who once collaborated with Gwen Steffani on the song “Southside,” which won an Oscar for Best Noises. You are under arrest!

    Landlord: (signs over deed to apartment for nominal fee of $1 and turns him or herself into the police)

    Savvy Tenant: Jail is where you belong. I am Moby and what was yours is now mine.

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      #NotAllYzermanHamilton Nolan
      2/26/16 4:26pm

      unrelated (sorry) but does anyone know how to get rid of this stupid type box on kinja. please advise. maybe it's just my computer but it's driving me fuggin nuts.

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        Andrew Daisuke#NotAllYzerman
        2/26/16 4:28pm

        If you figure it out, let us know. Formatting is a fucking nightmare lately.

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        Manolo Catastrophe#NotAllYzerman
        2/26/16 4:30pm

        Did you try shaking the monitor? If that doesn’t work, hold your breath while you drink a glass of water through a pillowcase.

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      Manolo CatastropheHamilton Nolan
      2/26/16 4:23pm

      This is just the nature of, well, Nature. The biggest animals eat the medium sized animals, who in turn eat the smallest animals, and the smallest animals get to eat at McDonald’s.

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        frankwalsinghalmManolo Catastrophe
        2/26/16 4:35pm

        Weren’t the biggest animals dinosaurs?

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        Manolo Catastrophefrankwalsinghalm
        2/26/16 4:37pm

        We’re talking about real animals, not imaginary menageries.

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      Drake's TurtleneckHamilton Nolan
      2/26/16 4:30pm

      Am I supposed to feel bad for anyone who willingly moves to or stays in America’s Largest White Person Amusement Park?

      It’s true. If you can make it in NYC, you can make it anywhere. Move.

      Oh, right. Then you won’t be able to tell people you live in NYC.

      Yawn.

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        XrdsAlumHamilton Nolan
        2/26/16 4:43pm

        They’re probably right for most of Manhattan and Brooklyn. When I lived in NYC the rule of thumb was that you had to make 40x your monthly rent a year. That translates into $2500/month for someone making $100k, and these days you’re not going to get much more than a studio apt in a decently maintained walk-up in a semi-livable neighborhood for that price.

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          keefkaHamilton Nolan
          2/26/16 4:22pm

          They should band together and start a just-being-able-to-live-someplace-for-Pete’s-sake! union.

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            skefflesHamilton Nolan
            2/26/16 5:02pm

            Does anyone have an electron microscope they can lend me? I need it to find a violin small enough to play the lament for these douchebags.

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              betheffessHamilton Nolan
              2/26/16 4:42pm

              Can someone please explain to me this phenomenon where really rich people think they’re poor? These people should try living on less than a tenth of that a year. That ACTUALLY doesn’t work in NY, but not by an insanely wide margin. If I made 45,000 I would be able to live comfortably in New York in a studio apartment, provided I picked the right area of Queens or similar. Which I say because my coparent is able to do so comfortably.

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