These guys put out a Craigslist ad for a mattress hung from their ceiling-$35 a month--and several starving 20somethings responded, including one young woman who spent the previous night on the A-train.
We thought about doing the same thing in our apartment, with a hammock on the balcony.
This comic pretty much sums it up.
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Not everyone has to live in New York, particularly Manhattan. I would like to live in Chicago myself, but I don't have a job there. PLUS, it would be more expensive. Sometimes there are compromises in life.
About the comic:
It isn't an absolute right to own property. Some people can't; some people have to work up to it. Most 25 year olds will never instantly be successful in New York.
Andrewx1966
Brief comment about Geekinger's post:
I am sorry that police officers often don't make much money. However, this particular police officer doesn't have to live in the "hip part of the city". Living in a "less hip, less expensive" area might be smarter for someone on a limited income. He is making a choice to live on a sofa in a very upscale area. That is his right, but he is still making a choice.
Andrewx1966
Tsk, tsk...so young, and so little empathy! Are you really "sorry," Andrew or are you just a defender of the status quo? It's not an "abolute right" that the wealthiest people in the U.S. don't pay taxes either; they managed to buy the government while the rest of us weren't really paying attention--or imagining that we would be one of the lucky millionaires someday.
But, in sooth, you're right: Housing isn't an "absolute right" either, unless people make it their right. When school teachers and artists and sundry other types of people who have made NYC desirable to live in by hanging in there when others deserted it are priced out of the very neighborhoods that they made interesting, that's an injustice to be lamented at the very least and struggled against at best; absolute rights notwithstanding.
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