On: Young New Yorkers Make a Brand New Start of It, on the Cheap

[edw519]

“You’ve got to forget about brands, you’ve got to forget about, you know, what your mom made you growing up, and take what’s out there.”

So?

Isn't this what people always had to do to get by?

But now it's so unusual it merits a NYT feature story?

Cry me a river.

[kungfooey → edw519]

Seriously! That's exactly what I thought. I'm a (married) consultant living in Queens. I work at businesses all over Manhattan and I find that I'm the only guy bagging my own lunch (seriously - never seen anybody else do it in the two years I've been doing this here). I'm from the south, so I find the NYC idea of "budgeting" to be absolutely laughable.