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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]New Yorker here. Ridiculous. Lawyers are so striver (I’m one btw). I work in house, am a single mom and make far less and have raised two kids here. I bought in an up and coming neighborhood which has gotten nicer over the years but still isn’t exactly park Avenue (oh well) and my 2 kids went to public, although one went to a parochial for high school. Very happy here, the city has so much to offer and I loved having teens in a city where I didn’t have to worry about drunk driving.

It’s people like this who only want to send their dc to private schools (why? There are amazing public options) and[b] have a house in the hamptons and a huge apartment in the west village[i] who think they’re ‘poor’.

Again, striver. [/quote]

It’s not unreasonable that a person earning close to a million a year thinks they should have more purchasing power than a dumpy apartment in Brooklyn.

It sounds like you have lower standards if you are okay being a single parent, NY public schools and live on much less in NY. [/quote]

Nah, striver. I live in Manhattan fwiw. And Brooklyn is hardly dumpy. Clearly you haven’t stepped foot there in ages, if ever. NYC public schools are amazing. Bronx science? Stuy? LaGuardia? Madonna’s dd went to LaGuardia. Timothy Chalamet. Jennifer Aniston. [b]Niki Minaj.[/b] The list goes on. My dc got in there but opted to go elsewhere. Dc was able to qualify for LaGuardia by attending another amazing NYC public school that had a dedicated arts program for training. I literally did not pay for a single lesson.

And those are just the schools you know.
Plus museums, parks, plays, galleries, fashion, art, literature, center of the financial world, etc.

But sure, I guess my standards are too low. I should have given it all up to move to the burbs and live in a McMansion with a finished basement. Got it [/quote]

I don’t think you should be telling people this. [/quote]

Yea, educated people making 850k really want their kid to be in a classroom with Nicki minaj and Madonna’s spoiled spawn [/quote]

Nice sock puppet but my point was that the peer group in NYC- yes even in publics- is phenomenal. And yeah, LaGuardia is extremely prestigious. It turns out incredible talent. I’ve actually been there and you have no idea what these kids can do. There is a reason a tv show/movie was based on it. It’s an incredible place. And free. [/quote]

No sock puppet. I used to date a trashy chick who went there, real outer borough type with an accent and said see you next Tuesday a lot. Don’t tell me how great a peer group it is. [/quote]

Lol so you know one person who went to LAG? How many years ago? You’re really ridiculous [/quote]

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