Tuesday Links
City Toughening Rules for Rent Subsidies [NY Times] Average, or Even Median, Is a Lot of Money [NY Times] Need a Mortgage? Don’t Get Pregnant [NY Times] W’burg Scam Turns Loft-y Dream to Nightmare [NY Post] Cable Reconstruction Project at Manhattan Bridge [Brooklyn Paper] Police Shoot-Out Wounds Two in Brownsville [NY1] City Shuts Water Tunnel…
City Toughening Rules for Rent Subsidies [NY Times]
Average, or Even Median, Is a Lot of Money [NY Times]
Need a Mortgage? Don’t Get Pregnant [NY Times]
W’burg Scam Turns Loft-y Dream to Nightmare [NY Post]
Cable Reconstruction Project at Manhattan Bridge [Brooklyn Paper]
Police Shoot-Out Wounds Two in Brownsville [NY1]
City Shuts Water Tunnel to Gowanus Canal [WNYC]
What If There’d Been Citywide Planning [AYR]
Jodi Arnold Opens Atlantic Ave Boutique [CHB]
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God FSRQ…. Any half-intelligent person would understand that I wasn’t speaking in B&W terms. Someone can be poor AND have an enjoyable life. But if your life is day-to-day misery because of $$ — and SOOOO many of NYC’s working poor are in that boat — then you MUST think about leaving this city. It has to be on the table.
As long as we can all agree that it’s not easy to start over, I’ll call it a day. I’m still reeling from the realization that FSRG and I agree on something. I thought I felt the earth stop spinning for a moment there.
FSRQ — to be clear, I don’t think ANYONE (until you now) was talking about someone making $45,000 and was in the market for a $1000/mo apartment.
Tybur6: “Sorry, FSRQ, you’re right… there’s no better place to live than New York City. There would never be a location that would possibly be a better “fit” for someone. I apologize. I wish all of the working poor well and hope they never get the idea in their head that there may be a better opportunity elsewhere. ”
The above quote totally changes and restates your earlier position of approximately 38min prior [to remind you, you said: “And, yes, I think there’s other thing that keep people in NYC other than inertia. But that’s because they haven’t thought it through.”]
So Ill take your blatant flip/flop as an acknowledgment that you were originally wrong, even if your defensiveness and insecurity force you to mask your mistakes in sarcasm.
Montrose —
That’s another definition to my use of the word “inertia” — inherent expectation of success. I never said that I didn’t understand this inertia. In fact I said it was scary and the idea of a ‘better opportunity’ elsewhere was very abstract.
I would also agree that a small town shouldn’t be the top of the list… unless you have a particular skill that would work there. Strangely enough MANY immigrants totally abandon very valuable skills just to make it in NYC. These skill aren’t valuable here… but they may be elsewhere!!
DH-
No I am saying that you cant get an apartment in Wyandanch (or Wheatly Hgts which is the same) for near $500. And Brownsville=/ NYC;
there are many $1000 apartments in NYC outer boros that are in relatively safe neighborhoods (that is safer than the not “really bad” parts of Wyandanch) and at that rent level, NYC is competitive with many places in US when you add up All the factors that go into these things; so while Binghampton may be great for some, it doesnt mean everyone who live in NYC making less than 50K a year is just “inert” or “not thought out”
The economy is booming here in NYC, compared to many parts of the country. A job at JC Penny’s anywhere in this country does’t sit there empty for long. Chances are, an opening will be filled by a local person who is worse off than the transported NY’er. If the town is small enough, like upstate, where I grew up, the chances of them hiring outside of their own local pool of people, whom the hirers know, went to school with, or are distantly related to, is slim to none. If that person is a minority, has an accent, or NYC attitude, fuhgeddaboutit.
Some of you are looking at this like it was you going out and starting over. It’s not you. You have skills, education, the advantage of background and the inherent expectation of success. Most people at the bottom of the ladder have none of these advantages.
This is retarded
i forgot we’re supposed to be cheerleading nyc to justify the mutant asset bubble.
later losers.
Sorry, FSRQ, you’re right… there’s no better place to live than New York City. There would never be a location that would possibly be a better “fit” for someone. I apologize. I wish all of the working poor well and hope they never get the idea in their head that there may be a better opportunity elsewhere.