In the News

[unforth]

The article that this particular quote comes from is actually not terribly interesting, but nonetheless, it is proof of something I've been asserting without evidence for ages:

"...in New York,...a new study from the Center for an Urban Future, a nonprofit research group in Manhattan, estimates it takes $123,322 to enjoy the same middle-class life as someone earning $50,000 in Houston..." (The ellipses eliminate an because clause that wasn't relevant to the use I was making of the quote).

Vindicated! I make considerably less than $123k, for the record. ;) Man, I feel so much better about this now...

Anyway, as usual there is little of interest in the Sunday paper...

Comments

[corneredangel.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think this matters for particular types of jobs. If you're in finance or law, yeah, making 150K (...or vastly more) your first year in New York is totally not uncommon, when the same job in Indy or Cincinnati or something would pay half as much. For anything more liberal art-ish (...or hard tecchie, for that matter, though), I don't think it'd be as big of a difference.