A response from the Poor Chat:

Should win prize as 50 year old rodent.

My counter on the author's behalf:

Listen, my friend, you clearly haven't been enlightened by the transcendental truth that the pulsating heart of authenticity beats exclusively within the hallowed concrete jungles of New York City. Only there can you find the zenith of human sincerity - the illustrious insipidness, the majestic rudeness, the noble jackassery. To exist outside those sacred bounds is to dwell in the realm of the counterfeit, the realm of shadows. True essence, my dear skeptic, is forged in the relentless honking of yellow cabs and baptized in the neon glow of Times Square. Anything less is merely a pale imitation, a specter of authenticity!

None of y'all make enough to date this woman. How will you possibly cope with that?

What counts as a really good deal in NYC is wild. I could see a young dude or even a young married couple living in such a place while they saved for a house. I know a couple who live in an apartment in the same building as a general store... The difference is that here they pay $300 a month.

Let's roll, eh! 😁

You're all just jealous

He claims that mortgage rates should stay up because... Get this... Wages have caught up with prices.

Yup... Now that the price to wage ratio has supposedly returned to pre-pandemic levels... You have to... Pay higher interest than the pre-pandemic rate?

Makes sense

Here's another one for y'all to brainstorm:

This is $155 worth of food.

This $155 isn’t even a weeks worth of meals.

This $155 got us 3 days of meals, 4 if we have sandwiches one night.

This $155 got drinks that will last 3-5 days.

This $155 got us snacks that will last not a week.

This $155 would have gotten us DOUBLE this a year ago.

This $155 is what a 13.9% inflation on meats/poultry looks like.

This is what $155 is what 7% inflation on veggies looks like.

This $155 worth of groceries, is what INFLATION LOOKS LIKE.

This year is the largest increase in food prices since 1981!

Last federal wage increase? 2009 How much is minimum wage? $7.25 ($2.13 for servers!)

Average median for monthly rent in 2020? $1,164!

Electricity cost have increased by average of 11%!

Water bills have increased the most, by 43%! Yes I said 43%, the highest it’s been in at least a decade.

Daycare for one child is roughly $10k per year! That’s a 5% increase in ONE YEAR.

Yet we’re expected to live, to support our families, on todays salaries?
Even at $21 an hour w/ a free sitter? You’re living pay check to paycheck.
Don’t even get me started on gas prices! $1.40 higher than it was this time last year. $30 doesn’t even get my van to a half a tank now, $40 used to fill 16 gallons completely!

We cannot live like this! While y’all up in your mansions with chefs. We in the trenches set up for failure from the start! Generational wealth is practically non existent! You can’t save a nest egg for emergencies now a days. They want us to get loans, to go into more debit. They’ve destined people for failure and it hasn’t fazed them yet.

I’m done ranting. 😩🤦🏽‍♀️