OH MY GOD (New York Times-related)

[msmerymac]

I'm almost embarrassed to say that I know someone featured in that real estate column this week. 

www.nytimes.com/2014/11/23/realestate/a-brooklyn-apartment-make-it-postwar.html?_r=0

My mom went to high school with her dad and also later worked in the same industry as her mom. Further, I will admit that I graduated from high school with the sister who is referred to in the article. And I was a teacher-assistant in her dance class... when she was in 3rd grade. I think I was in 9th grade? Anyway. I feel old.

I told my husband that it's a running joke that the NYT is really clueless and features unsympathetic people. Like they would never profile 4 dudes who were splitting a 1 bedroom with a budget of $2200/month, for example. And then I said, "I showed you that picture of the guy with the huge painting of himself on the wall, right?" Lol.

[pixy0stix]

I'm so glad her socks survive now.

What's the thing where the women are way hotter than the men in the relationship? That's what's going on here. That is not an equal looks relationship.

/bitch-natchness

[tacosforlife]

The fuck is going on with that mustache?

[pixy0stix]

Nov 21, 2014 21:55:29 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

The fuck is going on with that mustache?

He looks like napoleon dynamite's brother!

[dojo]

Lurker - They look like they're in their 40's. The hunt for a Chelsea apartment apparently ages people.

[msmerymac]

Her sister's husband has the same thing going on. Not the mustache. Just, "Really? You? Her?"

[msmerymac]

Nov 21, 2014 22:00:21 GMT -5 dojo said:

Lurker - They look like they're in their 40's. The hunt for a Chelsea apartment apparently ages people.

Well the mustache isn't helping!

[pixy0stix]

Thank you all for going there with me.

[MrsAxilla]

Nov 21, 2014 21:55:29 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

The fuck is going on with that mustache?

I was too distracted by it to read the article.

[LoveTrains]

I'm FB friends with someone who knows them. I went to summer camp with that FB friend. The best part was some other friend posted "who wants a mustache ride" in the comments on the post on FB. (Reference to Super Troopers).

Small world!!

[v]

THEY HAD A SPACIOUS 2 BR FOR $2900??? Bad floorboards or not, I'd have trouble walking away from that Chelsea apt.

He'll fit right in in BK.

[epphd]

Wow. I lived on the Brooklyn promenade (columbia heights between cranberry and orange) in a 1br pre-war for $1050 a month.

Granted this was 1996-1998.
And it was 450 sq ft.
And I lived with my post-college boyfriend who I left when I moved to grad school.
And even then it was a dayum steal.

But man, that place today?

I can't believe there are high rise apt buildings in the area now.

[msmerymac]

Nov 21, 2014 23:59:17 GMT -5 v said:

THEY HAD A SPACIOUS 2 BR FOR $2900??? Bad floorboards or not, I'd have trouble walking away from that Chelsea apt.

He'll fit right in in BK.

I mean... they lived in Manhattan. They had a freaking guest room?! Do you know how many people I know in NY who have the space/budget to have an extra, unused bedroom? And they had to get rid of the extra stuff to move. And pay more. 

Having lived in a 2 bedroom apartment (well, now a 3 bedroom house) with my husband since... 2008? I'd have trouble downsizing, I'll be honest.

[315]

The NYT real estate section is so goddamn pretentious. I can't believe that rent. I can't believe people get hung up over the color of the bathroom floor. In a rental. #Brooklynproblems And, yes, that mustache. Holy hell.