that rent thing is the biggest head scratcher to me. i have several friends paying over a G for two bedroom luxury apartments in Ballston. if all you are getting is a room, why not just rent a spot in a house for several hundred dollars cheaper?
Disposable income > being broke in luxury...
I can relate to most of this and have a lot of the same thoughts (except I think monogamy can still work but maybe I'm naive ).
Soul mates do not exist. My parents' divorce was actually a good thing because it separated when needed to be away from each other (my mother and father)...
is that why so many small places have a minimum amount (i.e. $5) for credit/debit payments? ... or is that something completely unrelated.
the deli I go to for breakfast says $5 minimum for debit purchases.
it makes some sort of sense...more young people/professionals are flocking to urban areas. rent in a lot of urban areas is increasing.
but paying $800 to live 75 sq. feet. @!%+ that...those 300 sq. feet aren't bad though, but not NY rent prices.
i know for a fact none of the high schools in my area had them ...they were all individual desk with the separate plastic chairs. I do remember the community college I went to used them in some classrooms I'll check there.
i could deal with it, depending on price. I don't really give a %*$* about space, as long as I'm not living in a closet. I don't have many things so that would be doable.
I do agree to some extant with this. Unless you have money or are getting PAID, the area is just really expensive. Living comfortably in the nicer areas of the DMV becomes hard (my def of living comfortably = own apartment and disposable income). I'm not expecting that to go down right away but...