DUmmies Describe Life In A Democrat Hellhole

[GOBUCKS]

It's great reading about what shitty lives the moonbats live in democrat hellholes like Manhattan.

Sat May 31, 2014, 04:32 PM
Star Member Liberal_in_LA (32,438 posts)

middle class lament rent-500 sqr ft for $2700

Michael and Melanie Bellanger Boyer, transplanted Parisians who live in a snug one-bedroom in the West 90s, are members of what social scientists sometimes call the “forgotten middle.”

Mr. Boyer, 29, earns $90,000 a year as a financial auditor. His wife, 31, earns $21,000 working at an animal shelter, where a modest salary is offset by generous benefits, a boon since the birth of a daughter, Nora, in January.

Last August, the couple moved to a 500-square-foot space for which the rent is $2,700. With such attractions as exposed brick, an ornately carved fireplace and a location just steps from Central Park, the apartment was the nicest and most affordable one they could find. But the hefty rent check they write every month takes an increasing toll.

“If it weren’t for the high rent, I could afford to stay home with the baby,” Ms. Bellanger Boyer said, noting that the family’s monthly expenses now include $2,000 for child care. “But I needed to keep my job because we need my benefits, and so we had to put Nora in day care.”

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025031064

Sat May 31, 2014, 04:42 PM
fizzgig (20,288 posts)
3. i can't afford to live on my own in my city

even a shit studio goes for more than half of what i make.

I am not sure what a shit studio is, but can't imagine anyplace that doesn't cost more than half of addled fizzgig's part-time 7-11 income.

Sat May 31, 2014, 04:45 PM
MADem (101,172 posts)
4. They're living in the upper west side. It's expensive.

They should just get Obamacare and be done with it. Then she can stay home.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I am not sure what a shit studio is,

Any studio apartment inhabited by a DUmmie, after the DUmmie has been there for a month.

[BannedFromDU]

     Liberals whining about paying too much to live in liberal places. Boo ****ing hoo.

[98ZJUSMC]

Cry me a river, (D)Ummies.  Think about your rent when, you're loving a $15.00 minimum wage while chowing on $6.00 filet-o-fish (Tartar Sauce extra).  Feel the pain, you little a$$holes and...



But,  you won't.  You're too stupid to draw a line from Point A to Point B.  You assume there must be a Point C in the middle with magical Chocolate Unicorns that will allow your hyper-emotional twaddle to magically fix your retardation. 

Just. Die.

[98ZJUSMC]

Any studio apartment inhabited by a DUmmie, after the DUmmie has been there for a month.

[I_B_Perky]

Star Member Liberal_in_LA (32,438 posts)

middle class lament rent-500 sqr ft for $2700

Michael and Melanie Bellanger Boyer, transplanted Parisians who live in a snug one-bedroom in the West 90s, are members of what social scientists sometimes call the “forgotten middle.”

Mr. Boyer, 29, earns $90,000 a year as a financial auditor. His wife, 31, earns $21,000 working at an animal shelter, where a modest salary is offset by generous benefits, a boon since the birth of a daughter, Nora, in January.

Last August, the couple moved to a 500-square-foot space for which the rent is $2,700. With such attractions as exposed brick, an ornately carved fireplace and a location just steps from Central Park, the apartment was the nicest and most affordable one they could find. But the hefty rent check they write every month takes an increasing toll.

“If it weren’t for the high rent, I could afford to stay home with the baby,” Ms. Bellanger Boyer said, noting that the family’s monthly expenses now include $2,000 for child care. “But I needed to keep my job because we need my benefits, and so we had to put Nora in day care.”

Wait a daggone moment here. Ain't it the libbies that are constantly preaching we should all live in the big city instead of the suburbs or rural so we can decrease automobile usage?

Well screw that!  Paying $2700 a month for rent is just not gonna happen with me... and I don't care if it is a mansion type apartment.  I'd live in a damned tent out in the woods before I would pay that.

I bet these idiots vote dem.

[GOBUCKS]

the couple moved to a 500-square-foot space for which the rent is $2,700.

Most normal people, even those who live in crappy little bungalows like Pam Dawson, have an attached garage about the size of that $2700 apartment.

So many democrats live in these god-awful blue slum cities, I think that may be one reason why they think America is such a terrible place.

[DumbAss Tanker]

So, assuming that $90,000 + $21,000 is actually take-home pay, they're spending $56,400 a year just on rent and child care, or a tad over 50% of their total household income, just for a tiny cubbyhole and the must-be-fabulous-to-be-worth-the-net-loss benefits package on her job.  That's an incredibly shitty allocation which precludes saving, and considering the prices in metro NYC, they'd have to be practically camping in that place and completely reliant on public transportation (Which adds up to a pretty considerable expense itself, over the course of a year, if you have to use it for everything, and also subtly restricts where and when one travels). 

Of course, if that's gross pay and not take-home pay, with Federal and NY State income tax and NYC's additional income tax, they're just plain screwed, and living out a losing proposition.

[GOBUCKS]

They hardly make enough for utilities and groceries in Manhattan.

One of them has a Dad who pays the rent.

Or, far more likely, the whole OP is a fabrication.

[franksolich]

Wait a daggone moment here. Ain't it the libbies that are constantly preaching we should all live in the big city instead of the suburbs or rural so we can decrease automobile usage?

Well screw that!  Paying $2700 a month for rent is just not gonna happen with me... and I don't care if it is a mansion type apartment.  I'd live in a damned tent out in the woods before I would pay that.

I bet these idiots vote dem.

This confuses me too.

For example, apparently Skippy, the NYC_SKP primitive, lives in a 12'x24' "condominium" on the beach in California, for which he pays an arm and a leg.  Being a governmental employee, of course he makes good money, but apparently real-estate prices are way out of line.

Now, I realize that California may have amenities that other places don't, such as maybe winters aren't as bad there, as they are in other places.

But surely there's a point where one says, "To Hell with the amenities, the rent (or mortgage) is too damned high," and one moves somewhere else, where it's cheaper.

[SVPete]

So move somewhere you can afford! NYC may be the most expensive place to live in the US! They should have learned that before signing a lease!

Silicon Valley housing is also expensive. But it's not that expensive! He and a couple of other guys share a 3BR 3BA townhouse in a decent neighborhood. Their rent is on the order of $2500/mo.

[Chris_]

So move somewhere you can afford!

Hell no.  That means they'll move down here.

[BlondeMoment]

+1

[BlueStateSaint]

Hell no.  That means they'll move down here.

Or, north of NYC--which would be worse.

[AprilRazz]

Only paying $1,300 per month on a mortgage and I have a 1,600sf house on a little over 26 acres. Glad the libs haven't found out about this place.

[landofconfusion80]

So move somewhere you can afford! NYC may be the most expensive place to live in the US! They should have learned that before signing a lease!

Silicon Valley housing is also expensive. But it's not that expensive! He and a couple of other guys share a 3BR 3BA townhouse in a decent neighborhood. Their rent is on the order of $2500/mo.

What's really funny is they don't ever realize that the crazy rent is being paid to a mortgage speculator that is more than likely a member of the 1%.  That rent is covering his mooring fee for the yacht this month.

[diesel driver]

Only paying $1,300 per month on a mortgage and I have a 1,600sf house on a little over 26 acres. Glad the libs haven't found out about this place.

I pay $300/month for a 1,250 sq.ft house on 4 acres of land here about 100 miles south of I B Perky.  Some months, my electric bill is higher than my mortgage thanks to Barry Bigears shutting down power plants and coal mines!   

I own a 26 foot camper that is half the size of their "home", bought it new for around $14K.  They could own the same or better in less than a year for what they pay in rent.  I know they are dimorats, because a conservative wouldn't be stupid enough to pay that much for rent for something he doesn't nor will never own.

I hope they starve...

[hillneck]

Star Member Liberal_in_LA (32,438 posts)

middle class lament rent-500 sqr ft for $2700

Remember these are the smartest people in the world.  Just ask them.  I guess I'm dumb by getting over 3 times the house for a third of the price here in the low country.

[JohnnyReb]

High rent is one way of getting and keeping the welfare riff-raff out. DUmmies will pay any price not to live amongst the problems they create buying votes with your money.

[GOBUCKS]

High rent is one way of getting and keeping the welfare riff-raff out.

But they even screw that up.

Deadbeats rule the roost in blue hellholes.

In Manhattan, these dimwits paying $2700 for a closet-sized apartment may find an identical apartment next door, rent-controlled, where an extended family of unemployed 0bamaites live for maybe $500 a month.

As democrats like to say, their strength is in their diversity. Enjoy that diversity, DUmmies!

Just hope you're not home when bullets come through the wall.

[Carl]

Sat May 31, 2014, 04:42 PM
fizzgig (20,288 posts)
3. i can't afford to live on my own in my city

even a shit studio goes for more than half of what i make.

But you can afford weed and a restaurant meal almost every day.
Stupid people make stupid choices.

[Fourwinds]

$2700...good grief. Out where I am, half of that will get you a very nice and brand new two story home in the suburbs.

[SVPete]

The Law of Supply and Demand cannot be repealed by government. If it tries, it screws something up. NYC's rent control laws make owning rental properties - in the long term - unprofitable. That, also long term, reduces supply. Demand, OTOH, is not similarly reduced, as companies move their lower-paying jobs out of NYC but NYC then becomes a center of high-paying executive and marketing jobs. Reduced supply plus same or increased demand means homes are scarce and high priced for newcomers.

[DefiantSix]

... Reduced supply plus same or increased demand means homes are scarce and high priced for newcomers.

Which is just one of the pleathora of reasons why you won't find me looking to relocate east of the Mississippi River without a gun pressed into my temple.

[Ptarmigan]

CRYBABY ALERT!



Seriously, DU should be called Whiners Underground or Complainers Underground.