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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I haven't read all the pages but reading through the ones I have shows me how out of touch people really are especially the post about the couple making 1.5 but there daughters bedroom is the den.

My husband and I live in a nice middle class neighborhood in Brooklyn in a 3 bedroom 1400 sq foot apartment. My daughters bedroom is the same size as ours which for nowadays is big. We make 100k and survive well because we're not full of ourselves tryi.g to live somewhere we can't afford.

People can afford NYC if they really wanted to but people make choices to live in affluent neighborhoods they can't afford and live a lifestyle to keep up with others.

This is a home a few blocks from me that the above could afford.

https://www.redfin.com/NY/Brooklyn/1634-84th-St-11214/home/40829239

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Big law attorneys don’t live in Bensonhurst. Most people there either don’t speak English or they chase minorities like Yusef Hawkins or reenact Saturday Night Fever. If your budget leads you to Bensonhurst, just move to the suburbs. You’ll need a car or two either day. 2.3mm to live there is a ripoff. [/quote]

Your right they live in neighborhoods like in the original story and complain how they can't afford to buy anything. I would much rather live in Bensonhurst where my multi cultural neighbors own million dollar multi family buildings then with people who believe paying 3x more because they live in Carroll gardens is better.

In the end everyone makes a choice of where they decide to live but to complain about it when you earn x amount and say you can't survive is tone deaf. The woman is the reddit post is making a choice but in essence crying poverty.

And p.s some of those non English speaking people work everyday in jobs that most wouldn't because English speaking people are to good for. Who you think stocks/delivers to the grocery stores you shop in.[/quote]

She made a choice to live in a nice area where multifamily properties are worth more than 1mm (when it is that inexpensive, it is called a “slum.” Your neighbors are “slumlords”). Carroll Gardens is a steal compared to Bensonhurst, Bath Beach, and even Bay Ridge. You’re getting more for what you’re paying. I don’t criticize the lady for making mostly good choices in life and getting screwed by a million and one policies that harm upstanding professionals.

I really don’t care who stocks and delivers my groceries. I don’t care about them at all and pay them accordingly. [/quote]

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