• wetsoggybread@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Damn how old are you. My coworker is in his 60s and talks about how rent was too high so he had to lease an apartment with roommates in NYC in the 80s

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      2 months ago

      Cities are expensive, who would have guessed. I’m 33 and rent was $5-800 where I grew up, it’s now up to $2750-3750 for 1-2 bedroom apartments.

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          2 months ago

          Fun fact before Julius Caesar froze the rent in Rome for a year, it was actually getting to the point of abject absurdity to the point folks were splitting rent 4 ways minimum in some neighborhoods. Must’ve been able to smell the gayness apon stepping foot into that city, maybe that’s why Caesar crossed the Rubicon he wanted to get rid of the smell.

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            2 months ago

            Just because I have roommates doesn’t mean that I’m gay!

            …I mean, I am gay. But NOT because I have ROOMMATES

            • Romans, probably