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Exorbitant Living Costs Have Put Life In The Big Apple Out Of Reach For Many
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- Maybe we can sell New York to the Chinese....
Posted by timbuckthree at 03:52 PM : Feb 06, 2009
Considering how much money we''re in dept to China for, that sale may have already taken place. - Reply to this comment
- More proof of the two class society Bush was creating, Ultra Riah and Ultra Poor. read full article in the srange section Questionnews, Moron!!!!
Posted by republiscums at 03:37 PM : Feb 06, 2009
That''s what you''re putting out as evidence. Some mental case robs a restaurant? It''s obvious you are not a defense lawyer. Perry Mason is puking in his grave right now. Where do you get your ideas, Weekly World News? How about coming back with a story about how Bush created the Alien/Bigfoot breeding program to create warriors to fight in Iraq. - Reply to this comment
- Other, than for rent i think everything else is comparable to the rest of the country.
More over if you live in the suburbs you don''t pay the kind of rent which was mentioned.
The transportation system is so much better than any where else. You may not even want to own a car if you live around new york city (that''s anywhere between $2000-6000 in saving per year). - Reply to this comment
- Questionnews, Rush is on hurry up and let him brain wash you some more. B u t t munch
Posted by republiscums at 03:10 PM : Feb 06, 2009
Awwww. You did like being accurately labeled as a b!tch to your party masters. I voted for Obama because of objective reasoning, not because some party leader tattooed an "R" or a "D" on my forehead. If you like being lead around like a dog on a leash by your party leaders that''s your issue. As I said before, the blind party loyalist are some of the most dangerous people around. The blind party loyalists of the Republican got Bush another 4 years. If I see Obama doing stupid stuff I''ll bash him just as much as I have bashed Bush the last few years. It''s called thinking for yourself, you should look into that concept. - Reply to this comment
- NYC is the symbol of greed in America. Get out while you can or they''ll bleed you dry!
All it would take is a 10-15% vacancy rate to bust most landlords... - Reply to this comment
- it would also be interesting to have you outline exactly what ambassadors are living in million dollar apartments.
Posted by bobnjersey at 01:20 PM : Feb 06, 2009
You''re right. The ambassadors are living in the Bronx and paying for their project-apartments out of their own pockets. The U.S. taxpayers aren''t subsidizing any of their expenses. - Reply to this comment
- High Rent mean Greed. The landlords in NY corridor whine about providing a fridge while charging double rent (compared to Chicago)
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- wolfsbaneh, honey,
A New York City Republican is basically a Moderate Democrat elsewhere. - Reply to this comment
- wolfsbaneh
Collar that dog there Sparky! I voted Obama. I just find people that are so narrow minded & view issues with political tunnel vision to be very dangerous. That goes for both sides of the isle. It''s called being objective which something you obviously gave up on long ago. Your blinders on party loyalty has stripped you of the ability to be objective, which makes me pity you. Your buddy that was ranting about Bush make have had a point. I partied on Bush''s last day, but I sure as he11 am not so traumatized that I need professional help for it. Much in that I can''t stand people that have to inject the word Jesus into every sentence, I have the same view of people that can''t complete a sentence without mentioning Bush. - Reply to this comment
- Juts more signs of the GEorge Bush two calss system, the Ultra Rich and the Ultra poor. Thanks George, you dumb a$$
Posted by republiscums at 02:06 PM : Feb 06, 2009
Uhh. The story is talking about the middle class and what they are doing!? Middle class means they are neither "Ultra Rich and the Ultra poor". I know it''s really tough to be objective especially with a title like "republiscums" but you might try looking at the world through something more revealing than a toilet paper tube. - Reply to this comment
- What does the picture shown have anything to do with the story. The only connection I see is that it looks like a large plane heading toward a skyscraper. I guess New Yorkers can identify with that.
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- Considering that we pay $1.27 in federal taxes for every $1.00 we get back, where would the rest of the country get the money for the bailout if we weren''t around?
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- Come on Mayor, raise the taxes some more!
Let''s see if you can get to 100% tax rate! - Reply to this comment
- [Oddly enough, this recession may actually slow or reverse the outflow of the middle class from NYC. Apartment rents are falling, as are condo prices. For people who have solid jobs, NYC now may be a more viable option than it has been the last few years.]
[Posted by Braniff77 at 01:16 PM : Feb 06, 2009]
not to mention that commercial vacancies are also increasing ... reducing pressure on converting limited real estate from residential to commercial ... and potentially reducing demand for existing resdidential ... due to downturns in the economies of the city ... especially the finance industry ... which has been contracting for the last year. - Reply to this comment
- [NYC, Just Another Liberal Mecca.
The City should raise taxes again. That''''s the Dembot solution to everything.]
[Posted by HawkSprings at 12:14 PM : Feb 06, 2009]
one of the higest concentrations of millionaires (and beyond) in the country ... and it''s a liberal mecca?
where do you guys get this nonsense from ... besides your irrational, ideological, distored view of the world? - Reply to this comment
- But the rents aren''''t $2,801, all over the USA. And if the rent is that high, so is everything else.
It''''s pathetic.
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Posted by erasmus606
It''s called supply and demand. When demand is high for apartments, as it historically has been in NYC, then rents are high. If the city were as horrible as some people posting here feel, then rents would be closer to the US average because no one would want to live here. But they do want to be here, so rents are high. - Reply to this comment
- The middle class is alive and well on Long Island and commutes in to NYC on the train every day. As for living in Manhattan, who would want to? It''s full of office buildings with giant cubicile farms. Sure, the median price of a 4 bedroom home in the suburbs on Long Island is around a million dollars and wages in NYC are double everywhere else - but slice of pizza and a drink in NYC costs under $5, the same as anywhere else in the country. Most prices, gas and grocery, are similar. It''s just property that''s more expensive - although, the further out on Long Island you go, the cheaper it is.
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- [ The taxpayers in the Midwest, who don''''t have jobs, will continue to pay for the UN ambassadors'''' million dollar Manhattan apartments. So the rich landlords will still be rolling in cash. That''''s all New York needs. Let the middle-class leave.]
[Posted by sMT451D at 12:21 PM : Feb 06, 2009]
wrong again. in fact it''s the coastal states that subsidize the states within the continenatal us. those higher wages produce higher tax revenues ... and the federal subsidies back to the states are not in line w/ the tax revenue collected from those states.
it would be interesting to hear how these midwesterners without the jobs are going to be paying the million dollar rents of un ambassadors.
it would also be interesting to have you outline exactly what ambassadors are living in million dollar apartments.
but it''s doubtful you''ll be able to characterize any of this ... since you''re babble is based on irrational thought driven by blind ideology. - Reply to this comment
- Needless to say the a big part of the problem was/are the greedy ****** landlords. A year or two ago it was perfectly fine for them to price out small businesses from commercial spaces and try to get higher paying tenants in there. But now guess what? NOBODY is moving into those spaces and they become and continue to be vacant. So much for *** the little guy!! And as far as the landlords are concerned I say F**K EM!!! They deserve it.
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- Oddly enough, this recession may actually slow or reverse the outflow of the middle class from NYC. Apartment rents are falling, as are condo prices. For people who have solid jobs, NYC now may be a more viable option than it has been the last few years.
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