It's Hard to Beat the Tent Rent
Here’s something we may start to see more of: Brokelyn reports that three enterprising recent college grads have avoided moving in with mom and dad by pitching a tent in the backyard of a friend’s Bushwick rental. The price? $100 a month per tent. The experience is not for the faint of heart, given that…
Here’s something we may start to see more of: Brokelyn reports that three enterprising recent college grads have avoided moving in with mom and dad by pitching a tent in the backyard of a friend’s Bushwick rental. The price? $100 a month per tent. The experience is not for the faint of heart, given that there are already six people crammed into the two-bedroom duplex. In all, that makes for nine people sharing one shower. All of a sudden, crashing on the ‘rents couch doesn’t sound too bad.
Bushwick Summer Rental: A $100 Tent [Brokelyn]
Photo by Stefan Tonio
Does the yard come with power hookups for all that electronic gear???
Fancy gadgets or not,this country is in some major economic distress. Real wages for middle-class Americans have been falling for almost 30 years. You know in today’s third world cell-phones and MP3’s are becoming increasingly more common, even in the slums. I’m not saying these kids are poor, I’m just saying that there are many lower middle-class kids that get a wake-up call in there early twenties that contrary to what Madison Ave has been telling them, they are not rich.
idiots if you ask me. i see how “poor” they are with there ipod’s and $200 headphones… they probably have the latest macbook pro too.
All I know if I saw this in the house next door to me night after night after night – 311 would have been called!
“i’m sure their bushwick neighbors are perfectly capable of making their disapproval known. it’s not as if they’re crapping in the backyard”
Good point – did the “journalist” who wrote the story bother asking the neighbors what they thought? Didn’t think so.
I think “Obama-ville” has a nice ring to it… Of course all the tent-dwellers, liberals that they are will insist that they live in a “Bush-ville.” How about calling it “these neighborhoods used to contain factories that actually made things and a country cannot forever sustain a service-only economy ville?
“they’re kinda cute and not bitter yet?”
I bet if we get another week of rain, this will change.
i’m sure their bushwick neighbors are perfectly capable of making their disapproval known. it’s not as if they’re crapping in the backyard
“why all the hate just because they want to do something fun and ridiculous for a summer while they still can? because they’re kinda cute and not bitter yet? ”
No – because it’s disgusting and illegal. It also shows a complete disgregard for their neighbors.