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This meant you got into the shower, wet yourself down, then turned off the water. You then soaped up and whatever. When finished turned water back on to rinse off (quickly).
Never lasted long as Mom would get at Dad about how he's going to cause "her" children to catch colds. *LOL*
That's how I wash dishes because I try not to be wasteful of water, even if I am not directly paying for water or heating it.
Personally feel every young American should not only read "On The Road" by Jack Kerouac (if they didn't in high school), but take a page from his book and do a cross country drive.
Pile a few good friends in a motor vehicle and head east to see some of this great country.
I love road trips. My kids have already been on 3. I don't like to fly unless absolutely necessary. Too many years wearing a parachute mixed in with the total lack of respect for air travelers' rights since 9/11.
I love nothing more than the open road and my own vehicle. As a matter of fact, tomorrow I am driving 4.5 hours upstate by myself. I love it.
Generation X is in their 40s and 50s, they were adults in the 90s back when housing was more affordable.
A 45 year old would have been born in 1973, most likely graduating from college around 1994-95. I'm not sure how many people in their early 20s were thinking about buying real estate, or could manage to come up with a down payment. Sure, if they were lucky and prescient, they could have bought when they were 26 years old in 1999, but it's highly unlikely there were that many who did or could.
Mid 50's today is maybe more reasonable to think someone that age now might have been buying real estate in 1999.
Biggest regret in life - I had a three room apartment on St.Mark's PL in Manhattan (8th St between 2nd and 3rd) and rent was $150 per moth between 1977-1981.
It was rent controlled. I wish I had NEVER given it up.
Biggest regret in life - I had a three room apartment on St.Mark's PL in Manhattan (8th St between 2nd and 3rd) and rent was $150 per moth between 1977-1981.
It was rent controlled. I wish I had NEVER given it up.
Ugh. Don't get me started. 73rd and 3rd. $275. 1975-81.
Have you ever in recent years, left NYC for an area with much lower cost of living? Did you find that the massive savings in housing costs was worth it, or did you find that you preferred living in NYC even with the super high rents?
And for you rich folk, I don't mean fake cheap like $1600 per month, I'm talking more in the ballpark of less than $800. I see that in Ohio cities you can get an apartment for $500 or less, I would totally consider doing that if I could find an apartment in a walkable area. Or I could get roommates and live even more cheaply.
You don't want a $500 a month apartment in Ohio.
Those apartments are in walkable areas because those apartments are in some of the worst areas of the city. $1,600 may be fake cheap for New York but in Ohio that is still expensive and that will get you into a much better neighborhood than $500 will. A walkable area is not that big of a deal in Ohio. Even the suburbs are walkable. You have to go to the exurbs to have that issue.
I was paying $320 back in the early 2000s. If I were to ever move back there I would spring for $800, at the very least, and this is a lot to do with the neighborhoods I had to deal with at that lower price range. I'll never go back to $500.
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