Tuesday, Feb 10, 2009

First against the wall

NYTimes: You Try to Live on 500K in This Town

PRIVATE school: $32,000 a year per student.
Mortgage: $96,000 a year.
Co-op maintenance fee: $96,000 a year.
Nanny: $45,000 a year.
We are already at $269,000, and we haven’t even gotten to taxes yet.

Posted by littleickle @ 02:14 PM (278 views) Add Comment

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1. inflation is eating my savings said...

Claptrap.
I was extremely happy living in Manhattan on $35k per year, sharing a 2-bed on E63rd.
Moved to Park Slope on a bit more money, had a blast and saved some too.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009 05:41PM Report Comment
 

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