Stanzi
Stanzi
Stanzi

Please. The only people in their 20s who live in Brooklyn are northern Brooklyn hipsters? You mean the only people you meet in your little privileged, circumscribed world. My point is that you have a laughably narrow frame of reference. There are 2.5 million people living in Brooklyn, more than any city in the U.S.

Better for who, though? Is it better for the people who had a community with history and a proud culture who can't afford to live where their family had put down roots?

Brooklyn used to be its own city, and if it were today, it would be the fourth most populus in the U.S., after the rest of NYC, L.A., and Chicago. So it's not small potatoes.

Let me take a turn rolling my eyes. My grandparents and parents grew up in Brooklyn and are pretty representative of the majority of the borough, even now— regular, working-class, non-white people just living their lives who aren't even aware of hipsters or the T.V. show Girls.

Queens is in the queue first, then the Bronx, then Staten Island. Hopefully none of that will come to pass, though.

We pay less than that for a 3-bedroom house with a huge yard....in NYC. It's a huge, diverse place, not the caricature you see in the media.

That's not a fair picture of what NYC was before. I grew up in the Bronx too (not Riverdale) and, actually, I remember my childhood as pretty bucolic. Tree-lined streets, a park nearby, walked to school, rode my bike on the weekends.

Teach them never to show their fear. If they get lost or are in an unfamiliar neighborhood, they should keep calm and try to look as confident as they can on the outside. That is an early life lesson from my mom that has served me well.

I want people who claim that these views are valid to explain them if they claim that they're persuasive.

I think they met on a photo shoot— I believe that when they showed a flashback to Don working in the fur store, there was an advertisement on the wall with Betty in it modeling a fur.

You actually don't want to crush it, I have been told, because if it has eggs in it they will scatter and hatch and they are tiny so you won't see them. I don't know how true that is but the person who said that seemed to know what he was talking about.

Ooh, I like the trust fund idea. And if that is the case, how much is in the trust fund, and what is it worth to him for her to go along with the ruse?

My son has a full head of curly hair and people are always mistaking him for a girl and attributing it to his hair. I even had a woman do it while she was pushing her curly-haired son on a swing next to us. I really don't care, I dress him in gender-neutral clothing and in general I don't think anybody really needs to

Yup. I know someone who has multiple outfit changes planned for her infant daughter for any event. She also had a professional portrait taken of her bald, naked newborn wearing a headband. Good for her that she has the time, energy and resources to do all this, I guess.

So either the parents are superficial or the people selling this product are preying on people's insecurities? Either way someone comes out looking bad, right?

Sooo...is there any possibility this is a cultural thing? Because I have these friends who are the nicest people I have ever met. They would literally give the shirts off their backs to a stranger in need. I moved into their house while they were on vacation when I had nowhere else to go (without asking them first)

Every time there is a wedding post on here people say this, and I have to say this is news to me, as a born and raised New Yorker. I have rarely given cash at a wedding, and was not given much cash at either of my two NYC weddings. I don't doubt that there are some cultural pockets in NYC where this is the case since

We got married in NYC two years ago and spent significantly less than that. Here's what we did: we got married in our favorite restaurant. They provided amazing food and a full bar. I got my dress off the rack at Bloomingdale's (pricey for a normal dress, a steal for a wedding dress, and no one knew the difference).

Yeah, I have never picked someone up at a NY area airport, except for my husband when I was in a really generous mood. That's just crazy. I think people in other places don't realize what a major hassle it is to get to the airport in NY. To and from can be half your day and you would just be escorting them on the same

Coffee?! Is it really not a given that you would give your guests coffee? I can't imagine being like, "Sorry, go stumble out first thing in the morning in a strange city to find coffee because I can't be bothered to make a little extra." Maybe I am too dependent on coffee?