Another World
Another World I got e-mail from www. moveandstay. com asking me to put a link on my page in exchange for one of theirs. I'm not really into link exchanges. Sure, if I think your site is interetsing I'll put a link. If you think mine is then feel free to put one but I don't really care to *exchange* them.

But, I followed the link to see what it was. It's a company that deals with housing for executives abroad.

The thing is, the places they are renting are $4000 to $6000 A MONTH!!!!! Who the hell can afford that?!?!?! I thought I was doing good before but I could never come close to being able to afford $4000 to $6000 a month on an anything? I can't hardly even imagine such a thing. If I made $200k a year, after taxes that would be $10k a month. The *guideline* that many people use for deciding if you can afford your rent is you should not be spending more than 1/3 of your income. That means you would have to be making over $300k a year to afford one of those places.

Sure, I know at least one or two people that make that but I don't know many. It really just seems like a glimpse into a completely different world. I mean, here's a company with nothing but listing after listing of places like this. Clearly there is a market for those places. Where do I sign up? I don't even think my family is/was aware of that world when I was growing up.
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I Feel Ya Bro. [ e ]

Amen Brother, Amen.

So, what elses has been eating at you?  What else has been going on in your life gregg other than being occasionally late?  So Nu?

posted by anon_BigGregFanFebruary 21, 2003 at 17:20

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big fat expats or senior management who have their companies pay for their housing.

argh.

posted by anon_MrSinghFebruary 23, 2003 at 20:24

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Last night I was out with some heavy-hitters - a former Managing Director of a certain bank that got wiped out by a certain rogue trader, etc etc. So I'm the only one that doesn't have an elite address in Shibuya-ku or Minato-ku. Assuming that because I work at MS, I must have tons of cash or an expense account, they start hyping Meguro-ku as somewhere that I should move: 150 square meter apartments for only 300,000 yen per month...ye gods.

But the scary thing is, that is still actually cheap. I had another friend who's rent (paid by company) was over 1 million; this was when I was living in one room in Nerima-ku. On one hand, it was nice to have somewhere that I could stretch out, play tunes loud etc, but on the other, it made me want to throw up when I got back to my hovel...

posted by CormacMay 30, 2003 at 2:12