Where was your co-op? Mine was not this one but a little further south. Maintenance payment included A LOT (insurance, taxes, etc.) but doesn’t change the total cost to live there added up to $8,000/mo and I personally know many people paying more than that for an apartment similar to this one that has $6,500/mo in…

Yes, and? If you’re divorced with kids you don’t get the married exemptions anymore.

The building I lived in had a doorman and maintenance but the building itself and the apartment were not what I considered to be “nice”. Also, by your account, every building in NYC is poorly run....which is probably not incorrect.

It’s been 113 years and they apparently haven’t figured it out....

How many jobs can you get in Northern FL that pay that kind of money? That’s the paradox of a place like NY. You make more money BECAUSE it costs so damn much to live there. Most places where a $225k salary would mean you live like a king don’t have the kind of job market where you can make $225k very often.

Not according to the article above:

I’m curious where in the City they live? And do they have kids or is it just them?

From living in a 3bed apartment in NYC about 10 years ago. The mortgage and building maintenance fee (co-op) combined for living in an ok 3bed in mid-town was about $8,000. Many friends and family who still live there pay close to, if not more, than $10,000 a month in combined expenses to live in the city.

Because that would be paid mostly by the poor, who can’t afford it, instead of the billionaires (apparently defined as those making $500k or more) who can easily afford to pay an extra few thousand a year after paying all the expenses and taxes they already pay in NYC.

Good luck trying to live comfortably in NY on $150k. $300k is the minimum for “comfortable” when housing for a family of 4, can run you upwards of $10,000 a month for a run of the mill apartment (mortgage plus maintenance fees that equal your mortgage payment). Then you get all the other expenses of living in the City…

Pick up some magnesium supplements in your grocery before you travel to take with you on the trip. One pill before bed and the next morning you can evacuate with the best of them.

I thought he won in 2009?

I don’t think he’s making an argument FOR Nadal being the best...just pointing out the guy everyone claims to be the best has one, two actually, guys he couldn’t beat out consistently in his prime. Diminishes the claim he’s THE BEST when he has a barely better than 50/50 record against Nadal on non clay surfaces and…

That’s still not much better than 50/50....for GOAT talk, shouldn’t he have a better record than that? And also, the losing record against Djoker doesn’t help the argument either.

isn’t it 7 times? I thought he beat them twice....

Self loathing...

Your last one is the most compelling of them all...and it’s the reason why I said earlier that I struggle with this one. Because on the one hand, I understand accidents happen but on the other I wonder what % of our total healthcare spend is actually based on issues caused by bad choices. But nobody seems to be…

I’m not trying to die on this hill....just very, very skeptical that increased access to healthcare will make a dent in the obesity epidemic. The US system of healthcare is the most advanced in the world, we’ve had Obamacare in place for a while now, and medicaid before that, and despite it all, obesity rates continue…

If my argument holds no merit, neither does yours! Eating healthy food is not that expensive. Rice and beans are extremely cheap....throw in frozen veggies and some chicken and you feed a healthy meal to a family of four for very little cost. People eat shitty food because it tastes great and is easy to get. But at…

I guess I’m not trying to draw a direct line between the two but ... just trying to show that in the absence of costs associated with bad behavior, you tend to get more of the bad behavior. And that’s not really something I want to encourage.