Only $7,500 a month? It can't be done!
Only $7,500 a month? It can't be done!
BudFrump23
Broadway Star Joined: 5/20/03
#1Only $7,500 a month? It can't be done!
Posted: 9/17/13 at 3:29pm
Boy, who knew living in New York City with a tight budget of only $7,500 a month could be done! Thank goodness everyone in the city makes well over that and we don't have such worries!
Housing Woes!
I'm as jumpy as a virgin at a prison rodeo!
#2Only $7,500 a month? It can't be done!
Posted: 9/17/13 at 3:37pm
The writer/Twitter celebrity Roxane Gay published an interesting piece on "wealth porn" in the Times a few days ago on Salon. I'm linking it below--offers an interesting perspective on why they write these stories--and why many want to read them.
This is hardly the most ridiculous one I've seen, but amusing nonetheless.
Why We Read NY Times Wealth Porn
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
BudFrump23
Broadway Star Joined: 5/20/03
#2Only $7,500 a month? It can't be done!
Posted: 9/17/13 at 4:01pmThanks, AC! A very interesting read. If anything, articles like these infuriate me. Perhaps it's because I could never DREAM of making anywhere near $7,500 a month (collectively or alone) - and that hoity-toity attitude of the only kind of place they can live in has to be a luxury building really grinds my gears. God forbid anyone live in a 5-floor walk-up!
I'm as jumpy as a virgin at a prison rodeo!
Tom1071
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/1/04
#3Only $7,500 a month? It can't be done!
Posted: 9/17/13 at 4:16pm
Check out the documentary, "Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream" on Netflix if you haven't already.
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#4Only $7,500 a month? It can't be done!
Posted: 9/17/13 at 4:18pmBud, you prob. realize this, but it's not a question of making $7500 a month (which, by the way, is $90,000 a year, and not exactly a fortune salary by New York standards, although certainly a respectable one, and one on which can afford a much better place to live in most American cities than one can here), it's having $7500 a month to spend just on housing.
BudFrump23
Broadway Star Joined: 5/20/03
#5Only $7,500 a month? It can't be done!
Posted: 9/17/13 at 4:24pmHenrik, not only that, but that most of it is coming from the Brazilian government. I don't know much about the workings of the UN and the salary these two make, but as someone making a third of the $90,000 you mention - and living somewhat comfortably, though not extravagantly, in NYC - is when my eyes start to roll at their measly $7,500 monthly housing budget.
I'm as jumpy as a virgin at a prison rodeo!
Tom1071
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/1/04
#6Only $7,500 a month? It can't be done!
Posted: 9/17/13 at 4:34pmI think that only one of them draws a salary from the UN. The 26 year old partner is just along for the ride.
BudFrump23
Broadway Star Joined: 5/20/03
#7Only $7,500 a month? It can't be done!
Posted: 9/17/13 at 4:45pmWell where can I hop on?
I'm as jumpy as a virgin at a prison rodeo!
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