Total Suckers You Know Continue To Live On Rice And Beans In Brooklyn While We Dance On Their Living Graves
It’s a story we never get tired of: While your friends from college are living in New York, subsisting on grapefruit and selling their eggs and plotting out cheap food on Google maps like a Loman-esque midwestern family visiting “The City” on a budget, you’re in South Philly, paying rent well under the thousand dollar mark to live on your own and buying a bottle of Patron every weekend and still having money left over for drugs and/or student loans. So we’ll say it again: Congratulations, sucker. You just moved to New York during its least interesting and relevant time in modern history, out of nothing else than some other outdated, outmoded sense of what upward mobility is. Wake up and smell the coffee. And sorry, we just can’t handle more than 2.7 of you per day. What are we gonna do about it if there’s more? Let’s put it this way: If a wall worked for Berlin, it’d probably also work for us.
NYT: If You Lived Here, You’d Be Poor Already
Previously: NY Observer: Roughly 2.7 New Yorkers Moving To Philly Per Day
May 28th, 2008 at 11:56 am
It takes the same amount of time to get to Midtown Manhattan from the tip of Brooklyn as it does from Philadelphia, and even longer if you live on Staten Island.
May 28th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
is the NYT article supposed to make people feel sorry for these idiots? Like this is some kind of 21st Century revelation for out of towners?? this has been going on forever up there.
must have been a slow news day.
May 29th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
i am doing just fine. it’s all the idiots in psych folk bands go there and think they’ll be famous who are starving. but that is nothing new. get a job.
June 1st, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Why the animosity towards New York? I didn’t lose any friends when I moved to LA, but you move to NYC and suddenly people take it personally. I know getting north of Fitzwater is a pain but sometimes you just gotta go see the world, live it.
I love living in Philly. I also love cheesesteaks. But you can’t eat a cheesesteak for every meal if you get my drift.
Also, why do people gotta tread on my psych folk band?!
Love ya!