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
my sister who i just recently met for the first time who is almost 18 wants to move to nyc when she graduates high school in a year (shut up). we are going to start our own business. her ideas are kinda out there, and mine are sorta out there too, so i guess it’s possible. we’ll both probably wind up walking dogs or selling weed though.
*roB*
Schultz!! – totally I get it – I don’t realllly mean what I said! –
It’s just I hate my neighbors! plus I knew someone who moved from Ohio that lived in PS that was nice
sorry – I will take that statement back. I hate my neighbors who happen to be from Ohio!
I just notice many people from Ohio have moved to BK, so I wonder why?
PB, cuz it’s ok to complain about white people 🙂
why is it ok to complain and dislike people that move here from midwest or burbs but almost nobody would make the same disparaging comments about the people that move here from
Mexico, China, D.R., etc? Somehow those midwestern folks have some great abilities to change face of NYC even though their numbers are miniscule compared to immigrants from other countries?
Sounds like displaced zenophopia to me.
p.s. I’m not from the midwest of another country. And I welcome all of them.
rob, my question is, what are you doing to get one?
Gemini 10, I say this with kindness, because I generally like your posts, but get over yourself. There are obnoxious people from everywhere.
Rob, being poor in this city isn’t as bad as being poor in say, Fresno. I think you need to remember that more.
G10, just ask the What, all the Asshats from Ohio will be on the way back soon, once the depression hits. And not a moment too soon, lol.
But seriously, I’ve been concerned for quite a while that high real estate prices will choke off the number of creative young people coming to NY to make it in the arts. If you loose that, got nothing left but Wall Street, and you know where that got us. Therefore I’m seeing falling real estate prices, especially rents, as a positive thing in terms of keeping NYC’s creative juices flowing.
ill just continue complaining i dont have a trust fund.
*rob*