The Doree Chronicles: I guess I missed the day where we learned that being 27 and running a... →
I guess I missed the day where we learned that being 27 and running a charity providing music education to underprivileged children meant you could afford “a one-bedroom in the West Village with a newer kitchen and bathroom and a rent of no more than $2,500 per month.”
In all seriousness, though, I really wish when the Times wrote these real estate stories that they added in—maybe even just a parenthetical! but something!—that was like, “She has a trust fund.” Or, “She worked on Wall Street for four years before quitting to start a charity.” Or, “She won the lottery.” Or even, “She will have a guarantor.” Because for those of us who have/did none of those things, and whose parents are not in a position to be anyone’s guarantor—nor would I want them to be, at my age—though I would definitely have a West Village one-bedroom if they were—to pay $2,500 a month means you have to make at least $100,000 a year to even qualify for the apartment, and I really highly doubt this woman is pulling down that kind of cash, and so it is just another one of those things that reinforces the idea that shit is rigged, especially in New York, you know?
And I have mostly gotten over resenting people for having trust funds or simply just well-off parents but then I read articles like this and I get annoyed all over again.
Yes yes yes to all of this. There are SO many people in this city that have jobs that can’t possibly pay more than $50k/year that are living in these swank apartments and shopping at high end stores, and I’m always wondering how they can do this. I assume it’s either trust funds or massive credit card debt- the latter is how I financed my shopping habit, and I only shopped at H&M and Forever 21!
Anyway… yeah. Financial transparency would be really helpful for these articles. People should not be moving to this city with the expectations that they can live like this.
