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Re:How Washington Really Redistributes Income by mangala on Sunday October 20, 2013 @10:55PM (#6582978)
> Don't glorify urban living to a fault, blowing money at bars for binge drinking well after college, spending too much on rent to be in a "trendy" area. You shouldn't have an iPhone, iPad, and MacBook and spend $1500/mo to live with 4 roommates, latte for breakfast ($4), buy all your lunches ($10), get dinner at the Whole Foods hot bar ($15) when you make $40k, then complain when you're 30 with a negative net worth!

No one making $40k a year is spending $1500 on rent. This is such a yuppie NYC/SF perspective. Try sitting in actual $40k shoes for a second.

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Re:How Washington Really Redistributes Income by cylinder on Sunday October 20, 2013 @11:21PM (#6583088)
Plenty of young people here (NY) do. Probably getting some supplementation with their parents' credit cards. I'm not sure how "yuppie" is supposed to be derogatory here considering we are talking about young urban professionals.
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Re:How Washington Really Redistributes Income by nilkn on Sunday October 20, 2013 @11:24PM (#6583098)
To be fair, I really do know people making incomes around that who spend money lavishly: every meal purchased, leased BMW, no retirement savings at all, credit card debt. It's sadly common.
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