[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I guess a lot of people like to live under despotism.

[miss marmelstein]

We were paying close to $3,000 back in 2008. Of course, we were in mid-town which, I guess, is a plus. Still, the toilet barely worked.

[wayoverthehill]

Well, that’s just nutty. I know many people think NYC is the only place on earth worth living in but c’mon! You couldn’t pay me to live there if I were a millionaire. But that’s just me. Others may differ.

[TalBlack]

I had the idea the other day that the statist types are all rushing for position around the Big Tit. EVERYBODY senses that something dark this way comes...

[PGR88]

The Ben Bernanke effect.

[Buckeye McFrog]

My house looks an awful lot like the one Doug lives in on The King of Queens

In Western Pennsylvania I am assessed in the mid-$80's. If the article is right Doug's would probably sell for $750K.

Location! Location! Location!

[Dilbert San Diego]

Doesn’t New York have rent control? Or at least some buildings have rent control? How can these prices be so high, if there are controls on the market price of rent?????

[varyouga]

It’s a good place to live if you have money and a good place to make money if you have talent.

Also a good place to spend money with educated girls from every corner of the globe who look better than models everywhere. In some places in Manhattan, single women outnumber men 2 to 1.

I love to go out to the country (with girls I meet here) but wouldn’t want to be single anywhere else.

[Polyxene]

$3,000/mo. — that’s over $36,000 a year! Where do NYers work that pay them a salary to afford that kind of rent???