Omg! My aunt had her WEDDING DRESS confiscated at the airport in the DR when she was flying to the US. The whole family still talks about it.

i’m excited for you to see it!!

but then you have a dog, 97% of which are pieces of shit. There is no win.

Ah, your comment makes it sound like you are criticizing the ratios given because you have no choice but to pay 50% of your income toward your debts.

The rental market is absurd. I’d probably move away if I didn’t own a house.

FYI if your loans are federal you can choose a plan where you pay 10% of your income!

If you’re paying 50% of after tax, you either have private loans (which are not a good deal and I would advise any students reading this to avoid like the plague) or you need to apply for IBR, ICR, or PAYE. That should never happen with federal loans.

I live in NY state. My apartment’s rent is being increased by 11% at the end of my lease. Last year I was in a different apartment that had it’s rent increased by 18%. I honestly don’t know how I would survive if I had to live where I live now for the rest of my life. People who have no options to move will see their…

Eh, I’m not sure how I feel about that statement. I mean, yes, some people have unavoidable student loan debt, especially if they’re becoming doctors or lawyers.

Welcome to LA. Also in order to have the pleasure of only getting 4% increases we pay half of the filing fee which is about $12 a year. And we are very happy that that is all we pay.

That’s with rent control. Ours went up last year and this year around 4% and only got a pay raise of just above 1%. They can go up as high as 3% without water and waste included or 4% with water and waste included which it is for us. Plus we pay almost $4 every month on some fee that they started passing onto us.…

The standard advice for a cash emergency fund is six months worth of necessary expenses.

Surpigingly, the wall that gives me the most trouble is the one my front door’s in. The walls I share with other people are less annoying than hearing people clomping about on the sidewalk and raising their volume x10 just because they stepped a few feet outside.

Good luck living comfortably in LA (unless you’re inland, or in a tiny apt) on $75k.

But it’s impossible to live “comfortably” in apartments. Shared walls are the abject worst - people are so noisy. So these numbers should all be FAR higher.

He’s Pooty Poot’s best bud, that’s how.

Yea, I know they are very respected, but it still doesn't seem like a gig that would pay you enough to require fancy off-shore accounting. I could be wrong, though.

Please include a presidential candidate or two...

“Don’t you know that string instruments being friends with Vladimir Putin are how you make the big rubles?”

Fan fic of my nightmares.