[dp0622]

OR a smart person would do what i did when rent was still 500 a month on staten island.

work day and night for overtime and pay your rent with the first two 10 hour days and sock away money every month till it goes up. that was 17 years ago.

friend owns the house, apartment now rents for a grand, which still aint bad

[OddLane]

People have an irrational attachment to this city. I was listening to a segment on WNYC last year that focused on residents of Park Slope being priced out of their apartments. They interviewed a middle-aged woman who couldn't afford her new rent so was relocating to L.A. to live with her sister.

I can understand why a grown woman wouldn't want to share a small apartment with her sister, but the way she described leaving New York would make you think she was being deported to Haiti to be macheted by the ton ton macoute.