NYC is DONE

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    I hope LA is done. Go on... get out of here.

    As someone who's from LA, I can do without all the dreamers pushing beachfront property so high the average person can't live there anymore. I was raised by the beach by a totally normal middle-class family. The beach was my back yard and my summertime baby sitter. Come home when the lights come on.

    Not even asking for a lot of frills -- but It's a shame that giving that kind of life to a family requires a single or dual income of 500k or more a year to own something, 250k or more to rent and have a separate bedroom for 1 child (or 2 if they share), maybe a home office, a good range of kid activities (sports, dance, tutors, summer camps), possibly private school for pre-school at least, K-12 maybe, savings if the world blows up, a retirement plan so you don't have to work until your 75, and one 5 day family vacation a year. My mother raised me on between 65-80k by the beach in a single-family home, as a single mother, worked the system to get me into the magnet arts schools for free as well as keep me in gymnastics. That is impossible now.

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    • It really sucks. Problem is worldwide. Real estate just isn't something for the middle class anymore.inteliboy
    • Waaaay more people with money, much less beach to go around.nb
    • "It's a big club and you ain't in it"Maaku
    • Good old timesi_was
    • hear hearPonyBoy
    • Try London. Same problem but fucking shite weather, terrorist attacks and Boris.shapesalad
    • Oh and no beach. Just the muddy river Thames.shapesalad
    • Beach life is where its at, that's how I'm raising my daughter now, fuck the states, so many other choices out there, US is just a ghetto.moldero
    • what does the world look like when middle class families can't afford children or the enrichment it takes to replicate what their parents provided?shellie
    • Who you telling. My rent is 2k and that’s a bargain for a two bedroom decently nice spot. Been saving for a spot and shits slipping out of reach slowly.ArmandoEstrada
    • Friend just moved to a new place for 4K month and I’m tripping, for that leave and make life elsewhere.ArmandoEstrada
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