Posted on 04/10/2015 1:00:52 PM PDT by C19fan
Living with roommates is practically a rite of passage in New York City. It often begins with far too many people sharing too little space and ends with a move into an apartment of one’s own, or with that special someone.
But with rents reaching new highs, single 20-somethings are not the only ones looking for someone with whom to share the rent. Couples are living with roommates even after they’ve tied the knot.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
But the economy is good.
I am glad there are people willing to live in the rat and roach infested hell hole.
How’s that redistribution of wealth working for you?
Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house; otherwise, he’ll get sick of you and hate you.This will boil over.
— Proverbs 25:17, Holman translation
Blame it on El Presidente.
Children are becoming next to impossible. It used to be that the greatest contraceptive was wealth. The wealthier you were, the fewer children you had.
Now, at least for what’s left of the middle class, the greatest contraceptive is lack of wealth.
This reminds me of the Soviet Union, with multiple families sharing an apartment.
Part of their “destroy the family” dogma.
This is the New York Times? Most New York Times readers live with their parents.
Children are becoming next to impossible. It used to be that the greatest contraceptive was wealth. The wealthier you were, the fewer children you had.
The economy is never good in leftist bastions like NYC.
Laying the groundwork for government-recognized polygamous “marriages?”
I kid you not.
My wife has a relative up in Boston who is 53 I think and still lives with his parents. The mother washes his clothes, folds them irons them , makes food for him and yes he is liberal pansy
Idiocracy was a documentary ...
Still ... those two look and act like completely whacked out neurotics. Just as well they didn’t reproduce.
But they’re NOT typical of high IQ people.
“My wife has a relative up in Boston who is 53 I think and still lives with his parent
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Italian or Irish???
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Nobody can look as smugly self satisfied in a photo as a NYC “hipster” who is living in a wildly over valued apartment as he bleeds wealth and destroys his financial future. Nobody.
I’m not too familiar with the New York area.
But, isn’t it a fact that the sky high rents and housing costs are found mainly in Manhattan? And that prices are much more reasonable in other boroughs, or in suburbs?
In that case, isn’t New York just like any other city, in that the choicest neighborhoods are absurdly expensive and keep out all but the wealthiest residents???
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