New Yorkers don’t realize that there is a more reasonable way to live….
You don’t need to spend $2,500 on a tiny studio apartment. If you’re visiting friends outside of Manhattan, it’s not necessary to spend $200 on a private vehicle to pick you up.
I see it all so clearly, and yet, I’m the worst kind of “new” New Yorker.
It’s been four months and I’m already equipped with my:
- A tiny apartment complete with malfunctioning cookware and Chinese roommates.
- An obligatory pair of Tory Burch shoes.
- Three x-boyfriends who live within a 5 mile radius (and yet I never see them!)
- $500 in season hair style (Black people multiply our hair care expenses by 98 % … )
- Regular mani-pedi found on Groupon.
- A newly discovered adoration for Proust.
- An escalated tolerance to whiskey and vodka (nowadays, I have to settle for tequila)
- A pretty damn good rotation.
- And two jobs to pay for it all.
