Posted by obwon on June 02, 1997 at 20:56:12:
In Reply to: Re: Please End Rent Regulation posted by Jose Norub on April 13, 1997 at 12:17:51:
: : Everyone here seems to be against ending rent regulation but how much do
: : you pay in rent? I pay $1900 for a small one-bedroom I share with a
: : roommate AND I've been here over two years. Now, the market rate for
: : my place is $2200.
: : I have friends who live in places that would make your skin crawl--
: : Four people(who don't know eachother) living in a tiny, dirty, two-bedroom
: : in the east village,which happens to be a fifth floor walk up, for $2600.
: :
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Please.... get real... The proper question is -- Why did you and your
friends decide to pay such a rediculously high rent in the first place?
Huh? Could it be that you wanted to live in the nice east village
community? Or were you somehow or other turned of by the fact that
a ten minute train ride by PATH would take you over to Jersey city
where you and your friends could have rented luxurious apartments or
even whole houses for less than you now pay?
You want a bigger, nicer, cheaper apartment? You claim that you're
being gouged? Well why didn't you look at Brooklyn? Even there, for
1,000 dollar a month less you could have rented something three times
the size of the filty rat trap you claim to inhabit. I don't understand
why you made the terrible choice that you speak of. But it does seem that
you were willing to risk your health and well being, as well as your
financial stability to live in a community that was made what it was...
Not by the buildings or landlords... But by the people who were living
there first!!!
Next, you identify yourself as a newcomer to the nabe. Someone who
brought your way in. By hook or crook y9u desired to scrounge and took
whatever you could get. Absolutely nothing else would do for you or
your friends, no matter how reasonable or nearby. So you actually, by
your choice and your actions, are praising the people who live there
already. It was you who would pay any price to be near them!!! You
and yuur friends!
Your complaints simply reveal that you both have made bad financial
choices. For that reason you wish that others be forced out? Force out
the very people who made the community the hotspot, sought after
neighborhood that it is? What will you do when your rent goes up
a smidgen and the trendy people you sought to follow move away? Will
you still continue to pay those high rents while surrounded by
well heeled stuffed shirts and yuppies? I think not!
Obwon
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