No one is shocked. Everyone just hates the idea that they can legally extort businesses, and that people think Yelp is legitimate. Fuck Yelp.

Extortion on the Internet is still extortion.

Agreed on all this shit:

DAG. I am impressed. I'd like to meet whoever could convince someone to spend that amount of money on something I've never even thought to buy.

Yeah - if I suddently came into 25K, I'd pay off my car and probably put it toward a down payment on a house. Boring stuff. :(

My dad refers to the 2 years between when he left my mom and when he bought his house as the time he was "homeless." He wasn't even couch-surfing or whatever. He was just living in rented housing.

I mean, I guess it's how you define "cushy." If you want your kids to see London or Paris, for example, then even a hellacious coach-class odyssey with multiple layovers will set you back ~$1k per person. For airfare. For a family of four, you haven't even landed yet and one-third of the $12k budget is spent.

We all have our priorities. I'm fantasizing about having $25k to blow on clothes.

-3.90 here. waiting for payday.

I mean, I'm pretty sure I said in my post that I'm lucky and privileged because I get to go to graduate school. I don't feel entitled, I feel grateful, even when I have to do things like skip dinner.

You cant even fly to europe on $2000...

I want to join a club like the Diogenes Club in the Sherlock Holmes books. I place I can sit in a high backed chair, read, and maybe plot world domination.

$200 a night is way higher that I've ever spent for a hotel that wasn't all inclusive. We hover a lot closer to $100. And before you say that I must be staying in shitholes, I assure you that I do not— on my last trip to Egypt, I stayed in a palace that had been converted to a hotel and that had this view from my…

>Difference: when you make $400k per year, you can cut expenses and still have leftover money. When you make $9/hr, there is nothing to cut.

Yes, when you spend ALL the money you make, you will, as a result, not have any money. Solution: spend less money.

$12,500 for a single vacation? Bye.

I can't stop laughing!!

I...want to go to there.

Japan has some fascinating places overrun with animals. My favorite is Nara, a town overrun by deer.