even more quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a new rolling new york times thread

xxp I know it's going to be a good day when I can work one in before 10am.

if you are young, willingly spending a high % of your income to live in the cool part of town is arguably justifiable, since your rent and entertainment budget are overlapping on some level, but if you're doing this by the time you're raising a family you're just an idiot. still if they weren't in manhattan I am sure they would be buying mcmansions and SUVs somewhere else that they also couldn't afford.

I have conflicting feelings about the family! On the one hand, they are idiots, and screw them for thinking they need to live steps away from Central Park and then complaining about how much it costs. On the other hand, fuck all the bullshit reasons that it is so expensive to live close to where they work and steps from Central Park. There's nothing wrong with not wanting to spend a large percentage of your day traveling to and from work.

Just you know ban capitalism.

Or intervene in the market, revive federal housing programs, revive Mitchell-Lama, build more rail lines and plant more trees, I don't know.

That's cool, too.

eh my commute is 30 mins door to door, depending on where you work parts of jersey / the boroughs actually have shorter commutes than some manhattan to manhattan. esp since the cheapest parts of manhattan are the furthest from public transit.

I recently tried to get from West 72nd to East 51st Street and it took me almost as long as commuting from Bed-Stuy! Depending on your exact commute, there's no guarantee that you don't spend at least 90 minutes a day in transit already. If that has to go up by 20 minutes but your rent goes down $1000 or more, do a CBA and let's move on.

Just you know ban capitalism.

― carl agatha, Monday, June 2, 2014 1:34 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Or intervene in the market, revive federal housing programs, revive Mitchell-Lama, build more rail lines and plant more trees, I don't know.

― Doctor Casino, Monday, June 2, 2014 1:36 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ilx otm

where the fuck can i buy this dollar pizza

They'll get married and move to Park Slope in a few years and they'll be like "BROOKLYN! WHO KNEW!" and have two babies and few years after that they'll buy a house near their parents in Connecticut.

― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Monday, June 2, 2014 9:27 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol otm

the number of nytimes articles that are based on the theme of "BROOKLYN! WHO KNEW!" is astounding

you can buy dollar pizza on like every street in manhattan

it all tastes exactly the same but is often better than non-dollar slices because it hasn't been sitting under a heat lamp for 6 hours

I wonder what fucking year the NYT will notice that no one can afford a non-anxious lifestyle in Brooklyn either.

unless you know you are RICH (by io's def, have a bagel store in yr nabe)

move to queens

too tired

as much as new york is overpriced there are still exponentially more 'nice areas to live' here in 2014 than any other city in america

like if you are priced out of san francisco you are fucked

have to admit that 75% of the time i don't know why anyone lives in NY

unless you know you are RICH (by io's def, have a bagel store in yr nabe)

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, June 2, 2014 1:51 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You are either A) rich, or if not A then, B) white.

ah, there we go, guilty

http://www.2brospizza.com/

Krusty: No offense, kid, but your mom's a dingbat!  There's no silver
        lining here.  I was a big cheese.  A _huge_ cheese!  And now
        look at me!
        I got to ride the bus like a schnook.
        I got to live in an apartment like an idiot!
        I have to wait in line with a bunch of nobodies to buy
        groceries from a failure!
  Bart: It doesn't matter what you did wrong, though, as long as you're
        on TV people will respect you.
Krusty: [ spits ] Bah.  What good is respect without the moolah to back
        it up.  Everywhere I go I see teachers driving Ferraris,
        research scientists drinking champagne.
        I tried to drink a Coke on the bus, and they took away my
        pass!
         [ breaks a bottle of scotch ]
        That's no life for a famous clown.

Oh, so she wasn't talking about Totino Party Pizzas, then. That's a deprivation that no one should have to endure.

When I first read it, I assumed she meant frozen pizza on sale for $1.

have to admit that 75% of the time i don't know why anyone lives in NY

― marcos, Monday, June 2, 2014 1:54 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Because $1 pizza is still made by human hands in a restaurant/storefront and served hot.

in the old-world style

i'm around 100% in wondering these days

have you ever visited the rest of america it's a hellish landscape

oh I'm not buying America as an alternative... but we are now primarily where the helldwellers vacation and need their Applebee's.

cept the Pacific NW maybe

It's true. This is the view outside my office in Cleveland right now.

http://bluraymedia.ign.com/bluray/image/article/983/983290/terminator-2-judgment-day-skynet-edition-20090515002944819_640w.jpg

there's an applebees and a tgi fridays just out of view

few things stupider than nyc provincialism

NYC is its own kind of hell if you've been living here long enough to remember enjoying/affording most of the culture while working a "get-by" job.

and when so many fucking people didn't take the F in Brooklyn

there are things to recommend new york. i'm living here because i wouldn't want to live anywhere else.
Well, Jersey honestly. But i got priced out!

yes it is cheaper to live in Kensington than jersey city now.

haha so much for the ppl at the fmu fair telling me to move to JC yesterday

if you can find a place, go for it!

oh i've already basically surrendered mentally for another year in purgatory. Getting a broker next April I guess.

omg all of this misery to avoid queens

yes Queens is one's way of admitting one really doesnt want to live in NY

i thought that was long island

The G is going to stop at Nassau Ave for 5 weeks this summer, avoiding Queens at this point requires no explanation.

knee-jerk anti-queens hate is the only thing keeping it cheap so I guess I shouldn't complain

basically ppl try to sell me on Queens now with "you'll be close to the Mets!" ie i'm a celibate neo-retiree who only cares about baseball.

there are nice neighborhoods in queens w/ cheaper rents that are like 20 mins from manhattan, the mets are really not queens selling point for most people

no, it is a tailored pitch.

also FOOD is a big selling point, and i am the least foodie person on earth

i will not see anyone i know now in those nice neighborhoods