• Hikermick
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    21 days ago

    How about the notion that one can afford to live in NYC while working at a coffee shop with only one roommate

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      21 days ago

      The apartment was rent controlled, and legally leased by Monica’s dead grandmother. Monica was committing fraud.

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        21 days ago

        Hey - I don’t like the tone I used to read that comment young man. Fuck them landlords.

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          20 days ago

          sigh

          Chandler had a good job, working in data science, which was still mysterious and paid well in the 90s. And Joey likely got unemployment between acting jobs.

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      21 days ago

      That’s not an absurdity, and if it looks like one then it’s the world that’s wrong.