{"id":53520,"date":"2015-05-22T07:51:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T12:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53520"},"modified":"2015-05-22T07:55:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T12:55:37","slug":"the-kids-are-not-so-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53520","title":{"rendered":"The Kids Are Not So Hot"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the one hand, this article in the HuffPo<\/em> – which bemoans the notion that new college graduates can’t afford an apartment in the 25 “most desirable” cities<\/a> – is apparently written by people who were on allowances from wealthy families (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

Entry level salaries coupled with sky-high rents in the country’s most desirable cities often makes finding a place more of a headache than a happy ending.<\/p>\n

As experts at Trulia found, new grads can’t really afford to live anywhere among the country’s 25 largest rental markets. While the median annual income for new grads ranges from about $16,000 to about $41,000 in these cities, the income needed to afford median<\/strong> rent is two to three times that — assuming grads don’t want to spend more than 31 percent of their income<\/strong> on rent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On the one hand: \u00a0Median income? \u00a0The price in the middle of the range?<\/p>\n

Who are the posh little fops who move straight into the middle of the housing market right out of school?<\/p>\n

And since when do new college grades move into apartments\u00a0alone<\/em>, much less in the middle of the market? \u00a0Get a damn roommate<\/em>. \u00a0Or move to a less “desirable” city!<\/p>\n

On the other hand, looking at the list of cities that college grads (or the poor, or the middle class) can’t afford to live in, I think I detect a pattern:<\/p>\n

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Yes. \u00a0I believe I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the one hand, this article in the HuffPo – which bemoans the notion that new college graduates can’t afford an apartment in the 25 “most desirable” cities – is apparently written by people who were on allowances from wealthy families (emphasis added): Entry level salaries coupled with sky-high rents in the country’s most desirable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53522,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53520\/revisions\/53522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}