I used to live in Boston... there are lots of stupid men there that make a big deal about their manhood being tied to their wearing shorts year ‘round. One, Jim Shorts on Sports, is/was a sports announcer when last I lived there.

I live in Bangor, where the New Year’s tradition is throwing a beach ball off the roof of a local pub. A few years ago, the temperature was WELL below zero when the parties started spilling out into the streets, with a lot of women wearing really skimpy dresses and heels. I will NEVER be able to understand how they…

There is this weird American attitude that I have yet to encounter somewhere else that if you are from a traditionally cold place, the cold shouldn’t bother you, and like Marshall and Robin in HIMYM, you should be able to wear shorts and eat ice cream in the middle of a blizzard. I remember pulling on my big down coat…

I went to college in Maine for two years and definitely wore miniskirts in February. I found that eventually your legs just go numb which is...not great. Teenage girls are just dumb.

*sigh* Winter in the Midwest you don't ever assume "someone picked her up" you call and freaking check! Mad at you or not, you keep calling.

Why have I never before heard “got two birds stoned at once”???? I’m going to have to use that all the time now.

Doormen are absolutely a luxury. As are dishwashers in NYC. I couldn’t afford to “upgrade” to one until I moved to Queens. And the lack of light fixtures are completely common in new construction nowadays. Yeah, people use floor lamps.

My current house, last house, and two apartments prior didn’t have one. If we buy a place we will definitely make sure and have one but for renting it seems pretty normal.

Please. I have a nice job and a nice, old apartment that doesn’t have a dishwasher. Haven’t had one for 6 years. Not having a dishwasher is not a deprivation unless you’re a spoiled brat.

In the regular rental market, you can’t get a closet in this area for $1,000/month. It’s not even cheap, it’s crazily under market value. (Obviously that is the point of this program, and $1,000 is probably still a lot of money for the people who qualify to live there. But it’s pennies compared to market value.)

I mean, it sounds unfair and all that, but this woman is paying less than $1,100 per month for a 2 BEDROOM APARTMENT in MANHATTAN. My apologies if her cries of “boohoo no dishwasher” don’t evoke tears of sympathy. I get that it’s the principle behind the poor doors, but come on, did these folks really expect the “same…

Are Doormen just a NYC thing? They sound like a luxury.

Maybe not but it’s not like the aren’t options. A floor lamp with a bright bulb and transparent shade for instance.

Know what else is separate and less than equal? How much people pay to live there.

by Manhattan standarts its a cheap rent, right??

Seriously? A lot of people don’t have dishwashers, especially in places that are more affordable (my apartment, for example).

It’s funny, I’ve been living in places with either no or no usable overheard lights for so long that it would be weird not to have lamps now. On the plus side, it is way easier and cheaper to put lamps on a remote control.

You get that most people on the “poor” side are still paying over $1000/mo?

No. That is a false claim by ANY metric.

I would agree with that statement. Taco Bell all tastes like salt, which is at least a good flavor.