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

a tiny one-bedroom apt for $426,000, and "the place was everything she wanted" jfc. in boston you can get a single family house with a yard in a decent neighborhood for that price. in cleveland you can get a 8 bedroom prewar duplex in the best neighborhood in the city for $200,000.

who needs families, I don't

I don't get how that's a quid/ag story. It's v expensive to buy a place in NYC, she was responsible and saved, shopped around carefully and ended up getting what she wanted. Not like her parents were floating her the down payment or anything right?

If she started a job in June 2011 and bought a place in winter of 2013 with a $150k down payment it means she saved $5,000 for 30 months. Which is admirable and all that but how many people earn enough to save $60,000 every year?

Other than people who work "at a large financial services company, focusing on mortgage-backed securities and real estate finance" that is.

Her parents may not have floated the down payment directly, but allowing her to live with them rent free (I'm presuming) was U&K in her ability to save that big a chunk of change. I also have to wonder if she has any student loan debt, or if the parents floated her college education.

after reading an article like that one, i start to think that maybe Pol Pot had a valid point or two.

kill everyone with eyeglasses?

I am making payments on student loans, but the bulk of my education was paid for by my mom, who decided to work 10+ years underpaid to get the benefit.

i.e. I get what you mean re: floating education. But this woman may also be taking advantage of very real sacrifices within her family

god, that probably sounds more right and ass hole than I meant. But I'm really just trying to say 'we don't know' wrt case in article.

Let's find out!!!

Single woman buying apartment in NYC. She must be dependent on something to be mocked!

One day I'm going to read one of these and just explode. I hope someone writes a story about that.

This man read the internet every day for a week. What happened next will amaze you!

There must be a rich father behind this successful woman!

Anne jokes that her biggest struggle at BU was finding a parking spot, a common trouble for girls on the go. She says, “Who would think that having a car on campus could make a person better enjoy riding the bus? Luckily, the distances walked (most of which were up-hill) to find my car built great muscle!” It is this attitude that will continue to propel Anne towards success. She hopes to eventually open her own Real Estate Investment Trust that purchases hotel and commercial properties across the Northeast.

prove to me that this woman's success is straight nepotism.

Otherwise it sounds fucking fantastic to me bc there is some asshole in a football jersey that doesn't have her job.

( though I get lol NY time style )

tbh this whole thread made sense to me until this one

which I believe has a weird thread to it

Let's find out!!!

Someone go find this woman ASAP and get her on ilx!!

totally!

and then we can find out who the fuck you are!

Tenafly, NJ (where the girl is from) is a rich town. It's not Alpine or Short Hills, but it's rich. I think that given that the headline is "How to Get to Manhattan? Save, Save, Save" -- this article very rightly deserves to be mocked, since it's about a girl working in finance who had to save for less than two years while living in her parents' presumably very comfortable home and presumably not making student loan payments. Nothing wrong with what she did or the choices she made. Yes, it was smart to take advantage of this situation that many of her peers probably did not, but most people don't even have the option.

True. I guess I am just sensitive to 'the article' vs 'the woman'

Yeah, can't really fault her for making wise use of her situation, and it's not like she wrote the headline herself.

co-sign w/ Hurting -- which means i have to retract my Pol Pot comment.

TBF, though, even if i had $100K+ at 23 i don't think that buying a condo would've been on my list. and my list wouldn't have been entirely wasteful either. then again, maybe it's just the generation gap (and that ILXors aren't the target audience for this type of article).

I think they're just trolling for hits at this point which does make ilxors a target audience

lol @ agonising here won't somebody think of the 1%

feasiblility aside - the laments of the 22 y/o struggling with the 450k studio apartment market in manhattan definitely fits the bill for this thread.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/fashion/at-soulcycle-tribeca-the-spinning-stops-panic-ensues.html?_r=2&referrer

Yes, the spinnerati of downtown Manhattan has had to face its greatest fear: The TriBeCa flagship studio of SoulCycle, the chain of indoor cycling studios that is a haven to celebrities and everyday-workout-obsessives alike, closed last Monday for renovations, for three weeks. The construction, which began in February and was to have been finished by Labor Day, will double the location’s showers, bathrooms and locker space.

TriBeCa, of course, has multiple high-end gyms, some that offer spin classes. But rock stars, as SoulCycle calls its riders (who include Lena Dunham, Harry Styles of One Direction, Oprah Winfrey and, since a SoulCycle opened in Washington in August, Michelle Obama) accept no substitutes.

http://i.imgur.com/QTlhVuV.png

the picture that goes along with that article is frankly hellish

and the last three grafs propel that one into the pantheon, mamma mia these people

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/10704094_10154627573370298_4784795503358084576_n.jpg?oh=6e431ddfa56eb5a4a6a6bd8c77b564d7&oe=549C81E7&__gda__=1418171914_ce2f865e9f9049e34fa0e2f5cf0c5a58

just wanted to put that somewhere.

lol

how soon will there be a thread dedicated to AO Scott's mag piece, “The Death of Adulthood in American Culture"?

if you will it, dude, it is no dream

There should be...Some of it made sense but his take on wearing shorts has me smh

It was not an argument she was in a position to win, however persuasive her points. To oppose the juvenile pleasures of empowered cultural consumers is to assume, wittingly or not, the role of scold, snob or curmudgeon. Full disclosure: The shoe fits. I will admit to feeling a twinge of disapproval when I see one of my peers clutching a volume of “Harry Potter” or “The Hunger Games.” I’m not necessarily proud of this reaction. As cultural critique, it belongs in the same category as the sneer I can’t quite suppress when I see guys my age (pushing 50) riding skateboards or wearing shorts and flip-flops, or the reflexive arching of my eyebrows when I notice that a woman at the office has plastic butterfly barrettes in her hair.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/magazine/the-death-of-adulthood-in-american-culture.html?src=me

everything else otm, esp skateboards

Skateboards, they've almost made them respectable.

on the bright side, everyone who can remember when men wore suits and ties and hats to work will be dead in 20+ years. and people being 20 forever will just be normal. the urgency to get a lot done at an early age is gone now. you don't have to get married and have kids when you are 20 or EVER really! the urgency to grow up is gone. and the urgency to grow up and do grown up stuff is also gone when you realize that you have 70 years of netflix watching ahead of you. people live too long now. and it will probably get worse. in the near future people will probably be pushing 120 without breaking a sweat. which is why you shouldn't vaccinate. replacing fellini and magical realism with harry potter and the hunger games just a natural outcome of a longer life-span and a lack of responsibilities. (i get called "kid" ALL the time by people older than me. they think i'm 15. you aren't an adult anymore unless you are 80.)

trust me, ppl think i'm an adult. Even tho I never got a "career" bcz I had no idea you wouldn't be able to live alone in Brooklyn without one.

i've had a LOT of heavy shit happen to me in my life and i've worked a ton since i was a kid and i even have kids and i don't feel like an adult most days. my example would be my parents. they were so totally adults. they owned cufflinks.

morbz, you are baby boomer. you are exempt. you are last adult gen.

My wife just said yesterday that she thinks there's an inverse correlation between number of years past 30 a guy is still skateboarding and IQ.