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Originally Posted by propman-nyc
Why do people always make giant blanket statements about how much it costs to live here?
There are too many variables involved to just say you need to make X amount per year.
Personally I have gotten by on so-little here that I will not even report to you a dollar amount (and I track my yearly expenses to the dime). I can say it was a proportionately less comfortable lifestyle than what a lot of people report here at NYC CD. It's like most of you people act like you are living in Trump Tower but at the same time you are all applying for housing lotteries!
When I made it on less, I was basically living like migrants would in a filthy room, collecting food stamps and the whole shebang. I was probably a few steps above what it would be like with living several people per room with illegals coming out of the wazoo, but I made it out of there. It was tough, and the odds were against me, but I bettered my situation.
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Why tbe association with immigrants and a filthy room ? I lived my whole life in tbe South Bronx. My parents as members of a Spanish Pentecostal Cburcb would visit Cburcb members and I never saw dirty homes. Tbe neighborhoods might have been tbe most arson ridden areas but tbe apartments or houses wers spotless. Everything bad a place, furniture and home goods were done up the best they could. I also visited friends and classmates who were African, West Indian, Korean, and never saw a filty home. Poverty does not mean dirty. While my late father was a door man/elevator man at a very expensive building on CPW and always said the rich tenants were pigs and kept their apartments in messy and ugly condition. Not all but rich does not mean clean.
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