A Dollar and a Dream
“Kit Schultz, for example, is 28 and just arrived from Columbus, Ohio. In some ways, her story could have been told anytime in the last 50 years, and in other ways, it’s very typical of right now. She lost her job as a nanny late last year and found her prospects were dim. Before Christmas,…
“Kit Schultz, for example, is 28 and just arrived from Columbus, Ohio. In some ways, her story could have been told anytime in the last 50 years, and in other ways, it’s very typical of right now. She lost her job as a nanny late last year and found her prospects were dim. Before Christmas, she went out for drinks with some old college friends who are living in Brooklyn, and they invited her to come out and stay with them. So she packed a van, headed east, and arrived in New York on New Year’s Eve. A new year, a new life, she thought. Now she says, I am having a great time here, but it’s also very hard. I’ve never been this poor in my life. I don’t exactly know what tomorrow’s stories will be or even how I will pay my cell-phone bill. But I am confident this city will continue to open up for me in ways that I cannot even imagine, and I look forward and forward.” — New York Magazine
rob, nothing evolves when it’s dead. what is wrong with your brain?
dirty hipster has mommy and daddy help him. that’s why he feels so dirty.
*rob*
Are there really THAT many trustafarians out there? Sure, there are some people that still receive some cash here and there from their parents. But this notion that every young person who has more then someone else is living off mommy and daddy’s trust fund. I know alot of successful young people who got where they are right now through pure ambition and hard work.
And what seperates NYC from other cities is that you can be piss poor and still have a fantastic time. I know alot of people who might be considered “poor” – (or posers by Rob) or whatever, but take full advantage of everything the city has to offer.
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Your shoes are run down because you’re spending your money on a Park Slope apartment. Move back to Harlem or to some low-rent dump in the upper Bronx or to Staten Island and you can buy nicer shoes.
hmmm nice shoes and living in a dump with crackheads, welfare families, and dog poop on every inch of the block, or live in a nice area and pay a little more but have scuffed up smelly shoes. ill take my scuffed up smelly shoes and contribute to the degentriciation of park slop thank you very much 🙂
*rob*
lots of kids these days have trust funds because they feel like they are entitled to them and parents are so lame that they don’t know how to say no and to have them work for their own money. it’s mind boggling how many kidults exist in this world between the ages of 22 and 35 getting assistance from their parents because their parents feel like they arent good parents if they don’t give their kids money. im of the school of thought that kids should get nothing more than basic shelter, food, and clothes. and maybe some video games here and there. other than that, buy your own damn stuff.
*rob*
“who has nicer shoes? someone like me struggling to pay bills or someone on welfare. i can guarantee you someone on welfare.”
Your shoes are run down because you’re spending your money on a Park Slope apartment. Move back to Harlem or to some low-rent dump in the upper Bronx or to Staten Island and you can buy nicer shoes. And coasting is fine, if you want to coast. Just shut the hell up and stop whining about it.
unbelievable.
denton,I agree with you- it easy to talk about being poor when you have something to fall back on. Since I have neither a trust fund or a wealthy family, i like to think of myself as rich in nobility 🙂
But I do find it interesting how many of my niece and nephew’s friends (who all attended public school) do have trust funds or money. Not when i was a kid in public school.
QOTD:
i dont think someone needs to back up their lifestyle choices. especially if they have no kids nor plan to ever reproduce to begin with. sorry but the genetic line ends with me. now. animals get pregnant and make babies. i think human beings would actually hello EVOLVE for a change if they stopped that prehistoric concept. we are no different now in 2009 than we were in 1999 or even 2009 BC. it’s lame.
*rob*