[Jameison]

"New York City is more similar to a Third World sh!t-hole than a bastion of capitalism"

Groan.
Try not to burst a gut , will you?
Again, you have no idea what you are talking about.

"You either have a lot of money in this town, or you don't have any"

Most New Yorkers, neither have too much money, nor too little money. It's just about right.
Plus, pay checks in New York are some of the highest in the country (and on the planet (of course rents are high too, but food and transportation are cheap.



" But you'll never starve no matter how poor you are, because this city has social services and taxpayer-funded financial support for every misfit and dysfunctional creature who washes up in the harbor. "

Now you are beginning to sound like Hitler, only thing is, you don't have anywhere near the power he had, which is not a bad thing.

[Alberta's Child]

New York is the only place I've ever been where a person with no title to a piece of property actually has more rights under the law than the person who owns the property where the tenant resides or does business. If that ain't Marxism, I don't know what is.

Most people in this country have never heard of things like rent stabilization guidelines, a rent guidelines board, etc.