Two Takes on the Cost of New York Living
Joel Lovell pens a piece in NY mag titled “The Upside of the Downside,” with the intriguing subhead “Here’s to bad times—may they restore the city that many of us moved here for.” It’s a good read, but don’t expect any revelations. Spoiler alert:
“I just think it’s possible that we all might become a little more aware of all that’s around us, that we’ll take a little more pride in cultural rather than commercial success.”Then there’s Adam Bonislawski’s “The Anxiety of the Middle Class New Yorker” in The L Magazine. A sampling:
“By and large, the rest of the country is designed to let a person exist comfortably within the middle class. New York, as currently configured, essentially demands that you escape it.”A drag, no? Unfortunately, you can’t put this one back in the bottle. New York will not get cheaper—neither will L.A., London, Paris or Tokyo for that matter. What will happen is that the middle class will continue to evaporate. The wealthy will continue to use these cities as playgrounds, and the working class will continue to eek out a meager existence.
Via Rach and Ertel.
