Olorinus wrote:
Sweetums wrote:
Clueless white dude brags about living in expensive downtown tourist traps
Film at 11
I'm not a dude. I think it is funny that you accuse me of being privileged and gbaji accuses me of being poor, all because I choose to live in a walkable neighborhood.
Anyway, back to this, yes I'm calling you privileged. I know this might be shocking, but I'm not gbaji.
Are you honestly calling $1000 apartments
affordable? I'm not comparing your cute little walkable neighborhood to the suburbs. I'm comparing it to the 'hood, which is where my friend lives. In fact, I said that my transport options from the suburbs are
better than hers. By public transit, it takes us both 40 minutes to get to the main transit hub.
I live 26 miles from it. She lives 6.
This does not even take the fact that my bus leaves every five minutes during peak commute times (there's simply always a bus there), and hers leaves around every 20-30 minutes on a rather irregular schedule.
Hell, I don't even need to compare the 'hood. I can compare it to my old apartment which was within the city limits, but at least
half of the price of rent in the more desirable, walkable areas. It required driving to commute, since biking is just plain unsafe when you live off of the interstate. However, I was so close to town, that my transport costs weren't expensive at all and were certainly cheaper than rent.
Yes, this includes maintenance.
Edited, Jan 13th 2012 7:18pm by Sweetums