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Its NOT called oversharing because real people talk about real things.
Everyone in the office knows when it comes to these types of situations and let me give you a good example because you seem to be living with your sunglasses on and your adverse to what's really going on.
A coworker of ours has dreadlocks and lives in Brooklyn Heights. She's not the most polished person but for the most part friendly and easy going, but nobody ever gets high powered executive when looking at her and we all know how much she makes. So when she told us she lives in a doorman building in Brooklyn Heights. We all gave each other this weird look and that look was: How does she afford 5K in rent?
Doesn't take a PhD to put all the pieces together.
Nope, not living with my sunglasses on or in wonderland. I am a private person and don't discuss my salary and/or living arrangements with my co workers (although i am pretty sure that my boss and the office manager know how much I make).
As my co worker, it is really none of your business how much I make, where I live or how I can afford it.
People always talk about their commute to work everyday whether the train ride was a mess or not. It's human nature for the next question to be: oh, what borough are you from? And it's obvious the next question is: Oh, what part of Queens or Brooklyn? So if you're a post office employee and all of a sudden inform your coworker that you're traveling from Brooklyn Heights - something about a 45K salary and Brooklyn Heights in a doorman building just doesn't compute. If its a moniorty working at the post office and saying this then its even more of complete dead give away. Through natural deduction, people can put the pieces together. This is NYC where everyone is either the HAVES or HAVE NOTS. Like I said: You don't need a PhD to figure this stuff out. It's just common sense.
I agree with you its no one's business. It's just eventually going to come up after working at a place for a few years. It's either going to come up in year one or year 5.
I contacted them, I will again around 1 year, they said they will put me on the waiting list for when someone moves out, im going to apply to hunters south and just say I make 57,000. I make 45-46k but I also make 10,000-12,000 in tips a year. Its worth a shot, might as well try and if they say no its no big deal. I have my bank statements with the cash deposit, I can get a letter from my employer saying I do make the money, but who knows, they are strict.
Stay positive. Apply regardless of anything because you never know if you'll get called or not. Worry about the documents when you finally get called. The people processing the tenant selection are very disorganized. That might work in your favor and there's always the Astoria low/middle income lottery next year. Sure it's only 30% of the complex, but it's supposed to have over 1,000 units so 30% is a decent number out of 1,000.
Isn't AirBNB illegal? It always seemed so illegal. I have a strange feeling someone is renting out their unit illegally. I always see tourist in the lobby. But i can't be 100% sure. It's not healthy for any building to be subjected to that.
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