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

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

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

― iatee, Monday, June 2, 2014 11:23 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

A year ago I would have said "OTM and SHHHHH" but now I'm an owner so everyone come on down to Queens!

well you probably hate them anyone xp

anyway

yes i hate everyone and everything

christ christ why am i on this board

i like queens! my first paying-my-rent apartment was in long island city and there are tons of great neighborhoods! i'm in bk solely because of my gal having a place here where i pay under 1k for my share of the rent.

there are also lots of nice parts of the bronx, I would probably move to the bronx over brooklyn at this point

Everyone I know who in recent years has moved to New York from Cleveland lives in Queens or the Bronx.

i have never been a fan of brooklyn but i have discovered that large swaths of it are still undiscovered unhipsterized portions. so of course i'm helping gentrify them now.

tbf tho the best borough is philly

i would move to harlem. one bedroom for 1800. looks nice!

http://www.riverton-square.com/riverton-square/

A 1BR for almost $2000 is way out of my league! Even if I had a partner, half of that would still be considerably more than I pay now!

But I'm cheap and willing to strike certain bargains to keep my rent under $800. Like my soul, possibly.

itt people who will sell their soul over moving to queens

i live in an awesome 3BR w/ tons of windows in a lovely, tree-lined neighborhood in boston for $1600, nyc is absurd.

feel weird typing that knowing that my relatives in cleveland are looking at the $1600 price tag thinking it's also fucking absurd

all ppl living in cheaper, nicer accommodations than me are otm

that seems way under market for boston