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

that's a paraphrase but i think it captures the spirit

“We decided to get out of the city and were happy with the decision,” said Ms. Porter, who, like her husband, is in her 30s.

THEY WENT TO WILLIAMSBURG.

and then allowed someone to write an article about it!

Clearly its the revenue from spanishhipster.com that enables them to afford a $1.5 million apartment

To which, btw, their most recent posting appears to have been July 28, 2014.

OIC the dude actually has a job and also inherited half a mil, they do point that out.

“I was not going to move to Brooklyn. Brooklyn is not New York; it is so far away from everything,” said Mr. Moran Moya

http://i2.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/001/296/morans.jpg

loool

The most offensive thing about that photo is Ms Spanish Hipster wearing her shoes on the chair

the guardian can't help itself:

Why the hottest new arts venue is your living room
http://gu.com/p/45gxq

I'm missing the quid-ag aspect.

Their blog is so half-assed it really doesn't even warrant mention.

look forward to NYer real estate articles about wealthy childless couples deigning to move to Connecticut, Vermont, Chattanooga TN, San Diego…

trying to determine whether or not those places are "New York"

even by nytimes standards i am having a really really hard time believing that the nytimes actually ran that article in 2015? ANOTHER "rich couple make the move to brooklyn from manhattan, find out that it is not that bad"

has to be like the 100th time they've done this angle

they repeat themselves all the time. there are apparently only 600 stories in the naked city.

you get used to it. the only thing i really read religiously is the food section and i find comfort in their endless retreads of stuff like: ham! it's not just something you put on a sandwich anymore! it's fancy! beer! it's not just budweiser in a cup at a ballgame anymore. it's fancy! basically: that thing that everyone has eaten/drank forever is no longer just that thing you have eaten forever. it's a thing! a fancy thing!

Walking! It's not just a thing you do between your limo and your office building!

i'm getting pretty good at the crossword puzzle i gotta say

the humble and dreary and forgotten cauliflower? not so humble and dreary and forgotten anymore! no sireeeeee!

they also like to drive home the fact that what you've been eating forever is some sad thing that is terrible. no matter what they're talking about. and only now can you get the good stuff. which never seems true. but it's a gimmick that keeps on giving.

anyway, they do this all over the paper. it's a living.

I always like to cite the ice cream example -- "Now producers are doing it with high-end ingredients and real, local dairy." Because that's been true for at least decades.

our local ice cream company makes the best goddamned vanilla ice cream you've ever tasted. just wanted to point that out if you are ever in town. you can get it at the supermarket. they add egg custard. makes all the damn difference in the world. that's my theory anyway. very old-fashioned taste.

http://bartshomemade.com/p/10/barts-flavors

scott have you ever been to http://www.peacefulmeadows.com/

no! i'm waiting to go with you!

i'm still getting used to things being called Creamies around here...

http://www.northfieldcreamie.com/_The_Creamie/Home.html

wagon wheel ice cream is likewise off the hookin' chain. my pal carol-ann runs that place. we grew up together. anthony bourdain is a fan.

http://www.wagonwheelgill.com/

woah

http://i.imgur.com/t0gwGld.jpg

haha! best grub around. best place to eat outside too.

I was just about to post that 2/5 link, ha

SPANISH HIPSTER DOT COM

http://gothamist.com/2015/02/07/brunch_hate_reads_the_tedium_of_rea.php

"The sellers 'had perfect taste, parallel to our own,' Ms. Porter said."

All time fave

The Times actually claimed that was Ms. Porter joking (eye roll)

http://thebillfold.com/2013/05/i-made-570k-last-year-but-i-dont-feel-rich-in-fact-i-feel-worried

He reads boring books.

paraphrase of key pieces of ^^ article:

Losing several hundred thousand dollars on unwise investing meant I had to live paycheck to paycheck at a time when I was only making 200,000 per annum. That scarred me. I don't feel secure. I worry about my investments, therefore I am not rich, because being rich means not having to worry about money.

mo money mo paranoia

Maybe if you can loose "a couple hundred thousand dollars" in an investment and not end up homeless you don't really need to worry about money. This guy has a problem.

a problem known as money

lollll, i mean this is fish in a barrel but what an amazing series of ridiculous statements. dunno why but the $300-a-week personal chef is what really kills me.

i have no idea, that's probably a pretty good rate for a personal chef, but how you can square the idea that you spend fifteen grand a year on having someone cook for you with not feeling rich, but try to reassure yourself that you're not worried about keeping up with the joneses because of your lower-grade SUV....

third car (for two adults) is only an entry-level ($32K) lexus

TBH, when i saw the 300 a week for the personal chef, I started trying to figure out how I can budget for that. Would be worth it.

5 $60 meals from mobile waiters uncle julio's perimeter

If it included ingredients and it was three meals a day for the whole family, it'd almost be a good deal. I'm assuming that's not the case though.

i would have died and gone to heaven if a hefty but regular mobile waiters bill came into play

a casual aside explaining the butter sauce

it does include the ingredients apparently which honestly - 5 meals for a family for $300 a week idk that seems pretty good. like in the context of upper middle class luxuries or w/e, it seems worth it to me.

So it's just 5 meals a week?

Or you mean family of five

I can't quite figure out where the guy's money is going. He says his mortgage is $700K -- that doesn't sound very big for a guy earning half a mil.