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I said come in! posted:I almost did what this girl did, but in Los Angeles. This almost happened a month ago. The difference is that I asked friends for advice and they all slapped me across the head and told me I was making a gigantic mistake. I decided to not make the move to Los Angeles. LA is super affordable and is one of the few major cities you could get by only working part-time in a coffee shop.
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Moltke posted:LA is super affordable and is one of the few major cities you could get by only working part-time in a coffee shop. lol, I guess it's super affordable since it still has large sketchy neighborhoods http://la.curbed.com/2015/11/10/9901804/los-angeles-rents-2015 quote:The cost of living, and especially renting, in Los Angeles continues to skyrocket and will continue to for the foreseeable future. A new third quarter rental market report by Marcus & Millichap confirms that rents are climbing all over town: asking rents citywide were up 7.8 percent to an average of $1,873 per month. For the year, the report predicts rents will climb 4.8 percent overall, "more than doubling the rate of inflation." It seems no one is immune to these rapid rent increases. Even renters seeking the traditionally cheaper cost of living in the San Fernando Valley are out of luck. The past 12 months saw a 7.4 percent increase in asking rent price up in the Valley. Van Nuys/Northeast Valley prices were up 15.1 percent! No offense, but when Van Nuys rent increases are outpacing every other neighborhood in town, LA's rental market might officially be out of control.
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Feb 22, 2016 05:05
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Moltke posted:LA is super affordable and is one of the few major cities you could get by only working part-time in a coffee shop. Sure if I want to live in a area where I might get shot or mugged. The job I was considering taking only paid $15 an hour and was in one of the most expensive parts of the city.
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Feb 22, 2016 05:06
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I can rent an entire house for 600 a month around here so this talk about 1k-4k single bedroom apartments is just super lol-worthy to me. Of course I am also super classist so eat poo poo city dwellers.
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Feb 22, 2016 05:07
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I said come in! posted:What would need to happen to drive rental prices down? Like maybe the problem isn't wages, but just the cost of living is absurd and there should at the very least be something done about rent in cities. A literal plague?
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Feb 22, 2016 05:07
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la is so sprawling the good and bad areas blend together in a lot of parts, and there is cheap housing to be found even in the good areas
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Feb 22, 2016 05:07
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Everybody give me money so I can live out my dreams of having your money. I also might have boobs.
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Feb 22, 2016 05:09
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I said come in! posted:What would need to happen to drive rental prices down? Like maybe the problem isn't wages, but just the cost of living is absurd and there should at the very least be something done about rent in cities. china sinking into the ocean with all hands on deck would really help the west coast.
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Feb 22, 2016 05:10
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Man Whore posted:china sinking into the ocean with all hands on deck would really help the west coast. For starts no more clouds of smog from their lovely coal power plants
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Feb 22, 2016 05:10
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Das Boo posted:Everybody give me money so I can live out my dreams of having your money. I also might have boobs. if you have big boobs then you should just be a cam streamer.
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Feb 22, 2016 05:10
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If this girl started some dumbshit like CupcakeCam maybe she could make some money for when the pity paypal dries up
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Feb 22, 2016 05:12
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I said come in! posted:if you have big boobs then you should just be a cam streamer. You can just trust my boobs are big because like many people, I need more money.
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Feb 22, 2016 05:13
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Das Boo posted:You can just trust my boobs are big because like many people, I need more money. reading her twitter, people are unironically throwing her money.
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Feb 22, 2016 05:14
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What I don't understand about majoring in humanities is can't you just read that poo poo on your own instead of playing viddya games in you spare time? It's not the 19th century anymore, you can access knowledge anywhere. All the classics are in the PUBLIC DOMAIN for gently caress's sake. Put 1000 of em on your kindle. The same isn't 100% true for STEM because of bullshit paid for article databases.
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Feb 22, 2016 05:17
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I said come in! posted:reading her twitter, people are unironically throwing her money. It somewhat bothers me that I could stream myself eating toast and on merit of being a woman, someone would throw money at me for it.
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Feb 22, 2016 05:17
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but seriously,I said come in! posted:there should at the very least be something done about rent in cities. rent control on selected places is like a lottery and encourages lovely practices by landlords (bad maintenance, intentionally trying to get rid of renters, tear-down & redevelopment) forcing new construction to include "affordable housing" was a neat idea but had been turned into such a loving awful result in a lot of construction, where the peons get their separate back-alley entrance and intentionally awful units that were designed foremost to be able to get ripped out when the time limit is up fix income inequality would be the real solution because if the rent was too drat high for everyone then the concentration effect might now happen as much. when the rich live in a completely different world that just happens to share the same physical space as the rest of us, they have no reason to consider "creating jobs" elsewhere. there's no reason that every dotcom needs to be in SF but that's where they go because all the tech money is there. Moltke posted:??? it's true. I have lived in nyc my whole life and have seen the way it used to be. quote:1000 sq feet is gigantic by new york standards, and a great deal of our housing stock was built in the 20s and 30s, so most people here actually have a pretty good idea about what living standards were like for our parents and grandparents. my mom is planning on moving to north carolina now that she's retired and man looking at real estate in a city where everything is new is eye-opening. seeing a little 60s cigarette box house and the 2006 mini-mansion on the same block is weird.
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Feb 22, 2016 05:18
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Am I missing something? because I am familiar with the exact position she was working at Yelp at the exact office she worked at, and it most definitely does not pay minimum wage. It's like 35K a year (approx 18/hr) base salary with pretty good, instant benefits and all that free food she mentions. And then several Ks worth of potential bonuses based on your local business harassment numbers
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Feb 22, 2016 05:18
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Relin posted:but are rent controlled apartments in the hipest locations?? i think not. there might be *gulpz* disadvantaged citizens there Well actually afaik the entire city has rent control for buildings built before 1979. So even in the nicest and hippest parts of town , there are many renters who are paying a fraction of market rate. And these places often have roommates come and go, so you can find very affordable rooms if you are patient and lucky enough. You may be thinking of affordable housing. I don't know a lot about that, but I think there are big waiting lists for that and it generally isn't for 20-something, single, college grads.
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Feb 22, 2016 05:20
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 Someone else made a compilation from her Instagram before she closed it down. Man, look at all that stuff you can make from rice.http://alotofrice.pixieset.com/thatsalotofrice/
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Feb 22, 2016 05:23
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White Phosphorus posted:The same isn't 100% true for STEM because of bullshit paid for article databases. that's true but in terms of non-research knowledge, you can learn all that online too. poo poo every mathematical formula and physics equation you can think of is on wikipedia with an in-depth history and description, and almost every programming language has a massive online database. you would think that's all you need, but that usually isn't the case in practice
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Feb 22, 2016 05:32
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Das Boo posted:It somewhat bothers me that I could stream myself eating toast and on merit of being a woman, someone would throw money at me for it. People are dumb! I would have some admiration for her #hustle if she weren't just sitting on her iPhone, righteously tweeting about how service workers deserve respect. Her own timeline shows complete disdain for both service workers and for customers.
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Feb 22, 2016 05:33
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White Phosphorus posted:What I don't understand about majoring in humanities is can't you just read that poo poo on your own instead of playing viddya games in you spare time? It's not the 19th century anymore, you can access knowledge anywhere. All the classics are in the PUBLIC DOMAIN for gently caress's sake. Put 1000 of em on your kindle. The same isn't 100% true for STEM because of bullshit paid for article databases. I'm p sure you can access everything for a math or basic physics BS for free too. Calculus isn't secret, it's just hard.
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Feb 22, 2016 05:36
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The hard part isn't learning something, it's how to take that something and turn it into something that is actually usable that makes money. That part is incredibly hard and college teaches you how to do that, at least in theory.
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Feb 22, 2016 05:52
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Whatev posted:Am I missing something? because I am familiar with the exact position she was working at Yelp at the exact office she worked at, and it most definitely does not pay minimum wage. It's like 35K a year (approx 18/hr) base salary with pretty good, instant benefits and all that free food she mentions. And then several Ks worth of potential bonuses based on your local business harassment numbers i have not actually seen confirmation she was literally earning minimum wage and lots of things make more sense about her story if she was actually earning quite a bit more still a pittance in SF but not terrible for an entry-level job with plenty of promotion opportunities
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Feb 22, 2016 06:42
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Das Boo posted:It somewhat bothers me that I could stream myself eating toast and on merit of being a woman, someone would throw money at me for it. Das Boo, how much of your own dignity are you willing to invest in such a venture? Yes you could just stream eating a piece of toast and sketching a delightfully funny illustration. But the day in day out comments like "Gnaw on that artisanal sourdough toast with organic marmalade harder you bougie whore!" would probably wear on you after a while.
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Feb 22, 2016 07:11
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Moltke posted:up until about 15 years ago you could afford to live in the middle of manhattan making low wages like these. failure of the government to adequately regulate rental units is one of the major driving forces behind nyc and san fran becoming unaffordable. i dont think its entitled to want to have a similar standard of living that our parents and forebears had. I have clear memories of shopping for jobs in 2001 and I don't recall central NYC being very practical on minimum wage (it wasn't practical at $50k either).
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Feb 22, 2016 09:41
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clearly the time is right for a memecrafter's union e: it was right back then too, it's always been right
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Feb 22, 2016 09:52
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Big City Drinkin posted:I don't know how seriously I can take you if you really believe the Tenderloin is "hella ghetto." I know people who are afraid to drive through Citrus Heights because of 'carjacking'. In a (fairly run down) suburb.
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Feb 22, 2016 09:54
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Also great that you know who in this thread actually lives in the Bay Area because they're like no, man, the whole country is horrible! Bernie 2016! Poor Mexicans living in apartments converted to bunkhouses! Except it's pretty much fine in every city where Tech Slave Cancer hasn't spread yet.
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Feb 22, 2016 10:08
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Panfilo posted:Das Boo, how much of your own dignity are you willing to invest in such a venture? Yes you could just stream eating a piece of toast and sketching a delightfully funny illustration. But the day in day out comments like "Gnaw on that artisanal sourdough toast with organic marmalade harder you bougie whore!" would probably wear on you after a while. I once made the mistake of having a table at a convention. By browsing my usual stock of goofy illustrations, several gents concluded I'd be good for porn pics. And then one asked for a picture of my feet.  I came away unfortunately aware of how easily money is made that weekend.
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Feb 22, 2016 10:36
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Das Boo posted:I once made the mistake of having a table at a convention. By browsing my usual stock of goofy illustrations, several gents concluded I'd be good for porn pics. And then one asked for a picture of my feet. Post the paws
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Feb 22, 2016 10:54
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Morons like this girl are a big reason rent is so expensive in big cities. I thought she was just a bit stupid but after reading her twitter it seems like she knows exactly what she's doing. I hope she ends up homeless tbh. Idiots will throw money at her for a while but I can't imagine anyone ever wanting to hire her. Funniest thing was this. Apparently her dad is retarded too. 
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 Das Boo posted:I once made the mistake of having a table at a convention. By browsing my usual stock of goofy illustrations, several gents concluded I'd be good for porn pics. And then one asked for a picture of my feet. Link your (non porn, non feet) stuff
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Glad we could make this thread about the brain damaged anime convention roadie, who isn't as retarded as the chick in the OP because ???
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Feb 22, 2016 11:48
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Larry Parrish posted:Glad we could make this thread about the brain damaged anime convention roadie, who isn't as retarded as the chick in the OP because ???  sorry i don't profile goons i just post
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Feb 22, 2016 11:58
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I love all goons and embrace them all as brothers, and because of this I want them all to have a good time.
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Feb 22, 2016 12:09
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Larry Parrish posted:Glad we could make this thread about the brain damaged anime convention roadie, who isn't as retarded as the chick in the OP because ??? I can support myself, for starters.
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Hope you're still a fan of it hurts  As a dirty spoiled millenial, I am thankful for what my night shift desk job gets me, even though retirement is the last thing I ever consider paying into with all my extra money.
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Man If i could rend a whole house for 600 bucks. I'd rent out all the rooms but a bathroom and 1 room for me. TF am I gonna do with the rest of that? All I need is a box with a kitchen a dishwasher and a shower / toilet and some place to sleep.
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