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    Everyone's Poor But Happy In New York Today
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    Image of DionNanger DionNanger
    05/11/09

    In reply to Everyone's Poor But Happy In New York Today
    yeah, you all just keep on talking about how awesome brookl -- er, sorry, "bklyn" (ugh...) -- and manhattan are, while those of us living dirt cheap out in queens stay quiet and pray you don't notice us.

    *whistles/twiddles thumbs/looks skyward*
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    05/11/09

    @DionNanger: Yes, I hear Woodside is lovely this time of year.
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    Image of SidAndFinancy SidAndFinancy
    05/11/09

    In reply to Everyone's Poor But Happy In New York Today
    Or perhaps everyone is volunteering so that they can eat the meals!


    Also, I guess it's been a while since I looked at the cover of Abbey Road. Which one is Ringo again?

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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    05/11/09

    In reply to Everyone's Poor But Happy In New York Today
    Yeah, I actually do really love living in Brooklyn and you get more space for your money. It's not all an inferiority complex FYI. There are 2 million of us.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    05/11/09

    In reply to Everyone's Poor But Happy In New York Today
    When living in a studio apartment isn't like living in your bedroom two doors down from mom, without the free food and laundry, but still paying upwards of $1500 a month…then, maybe, I'll think there's something good about Manhattan.


    In ye old south we call "studio" apartments "efficiencies" and this basically means you cook on a hotplate and share a bathroom with a drunk across the hall. It took several years to explain the difference in concept to my mother who spent much of my youth trying to convince me to move home because, "Really, what's the difference? You can have one of those Futon-thingies in your room at home."

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    Image of Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate
    05/11/09

    In reply to Everyone's Poor But Happy In New York Today
    On the plus side, NY was just rated fifth best city for hair. Stop crying already.
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    Image of Dickdogfood Dickdogfood
    05/11/09

    @Itsjustcatnip: Oh yes. This is one of the all-time most inane listy click-bait horrors, ever:


    [www.msnbc.msn.com]

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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    05/11/09

    @Itsjustcatnip: #1 was Baltimore, I hope.
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    05/11/09

    @Itsjustcatnip: Fifth??? They must have taken points off for Staten Island, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens.
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    05/11/09

    In reply to Everyone's Poor But Happy In New York Today
    I'm going to blender up some margaritas and see how this whole thing pans out.
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    Image of aurora*raby aurora*raby
    05/11/09

    In reply to Everyone's Poor But Happy In New York Today
    Why do people assume that all "artistes and aspiring deadbeats" are poor? Anyway, WTF is an "aspiring deadbeat"?
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    Image of subpar subpar
    05/11/09

    In reply to Everyone's Poor But Happy In New York Today
    I'm sure the rise in food-based volunteerism has absolutely NOTHING to do with Joan Rivers winning Celebrity Apprentice last night. Psshaw.
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    Image of SidAndFinancy SidAndFinancy
    05/11/09

    @subpar: SOME OF US TIVO! AAARRRGGH!
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    05/11/09

    @SidAndFinancy: You'll still want to watch it. It was magical.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    05/11/09

    In reply to Everyone's Poor But Happy In New York Today
    It's not that volunteering is fashionable; it's that getting paid is not.
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    Image of katastic katastic
    05/11/09

    In reply to Everyone's Poor But Happy In New York Today
    I'm so happy to hear we poors have developed a new, Dickensian sort of charm.
    Give me an effing tuppence and I'll pull my forelock at 'ee, guvnor.
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    Image of El Matardillo El Matardillo
    05/11/09

    @katastic: Pretty worldly for a cat.
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    Image of TedSez TedSez
    05/11/09

    In reply to Everyone's Poor But Happy In New York Today
    If New York is like other expensive cities, housing values may be plummeting, but prices aren't. If all the "bubble" blogs are correct, that's because owners aren't willing or able to lower sales prices or rents, and they end up not selling or leaving rentals empty instead of giving up on the crazy-inflated prices they've come to expect.
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    Image of blogissuchanuglyword blogissuchanuglyword
    05/11/09

    It will be a little cute to watch all the Midwesterners who have been all "OMG Brooklyn is awesome I would never live in Manhattan" for the last few years come pouring into the city. But, mostly, I think outer borough residents belong in outer boroughs.
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    Image of Dickdogfood Dickdogfood
    05/11/09

    In reply to Everyone's Poor But Happy In New York Today
    Wow, awesome! There is a silver lining! I mean, sure, the actual poor aren't getting by, in fact they're probably suffering and losing their jobs (I guess!), but they never had much to begin with anyway and as long as they don't riot or anything (and they're probably all too stoned stand up anyway) we don't really have to worry our pretty little heads about them, now do we? Think of the APARTMENTS! Priorities, people!


    (Sorry.)

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    Image of sakade sakade
    05/11/09

    In reply to Everyone's Poor But Happy In New York Today
    Thank you for working in an "On the Town" reference.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    05/11/09

    In reply to Everyone's Poor But Happy In New York Today
    i kind of always thought all the bklyn love was overcompensating for not being in manhattan
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    05/11/09

    @if_i_only_had_a_heart:


    It is. Don't let them tell you otherwise, which they will try to do while sitting in a bar in Manhattan.

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    Image of bytememehard bytememehard
    05/11/09

    @if_i_only_had_a_heart: Exactly! The thinking was like, "if enough of us say it is cooler to live in Brooklyn often and loud enough, maybe we can make it be true!" But, sadly, they couldn't.


    Signed,


    Bitchier, Another Entitled Manhattan Dweller

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    Image of SarahHeartburn SarahHeartburn
    05/11/09

    @if_i_only_had_a_heart: That's the dirty little secret.
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    Image of cdmunch cdmunch
    05/11/09

    In reply to Everyone's Poor But Happy In New York Today
    Hopefully we'll return to the good ol' days when criminals robbed or killed you with knives not guns. God, I hate guns.
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    Image of El Matardillo El Matardillo
    05/11/09

    @cdmunch: That train left the station 100 years ago.
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