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PasadenaTrudy

(3,998 posts) Fri Mar 20, 2015, 01:14 PM Mar 2015

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When A 13-Year-Old Picks Out A $14 Million Dollar Condo

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/realestate/when-new-york-kids-help-find-the-family-home.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

"Teens and preteens are getting involved in finding multimillion-dollar homes for their families, and in a few instances, doing everything but writing the check."

I am this close to cancelling my NYT subscription. These types of articles make my blood boil.

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When A 13-Year-Old Picks Out A $14 Million Dollar Condo (Original Post) PasadenaTrudy Mar 2015 OP

I guess a story of a family of 4 struggling to pay bills is not SEXY enough srican69 Mar 2015 #1

It's easier to read these lifestyle stories if you include "among upper-class New Yorkers" in every Brickbat Mar 2015 #2

"All the news that's fit to print..." alcibiades_mystery Mar 2015 #3

Essentially a story about NY Real Estate brokers and investors selling each other overpriced condos. The_Casual_Observer Mar 2015 #4

A recent article in Time Kelvin Mace Mar 2015 #5

Yeah, that is a craptastic review Blue_Tires Mar 2015 #8

Salaries are quaint. lumberjack_jeff Mar 2015 #6

Then Sherman A1 Mar 2015 #7

I like having an online paper PasadenaTrudy Mar 2015 #13

I did as well, Sherman A1 Mar 2015 #14

Thanks PasadenaTrudy Mar 2015 #15

oh look some asshole doesn't like some of the comments Enrique Mar 2015 #9

Clueless 1%er I bet n/t PasadenaTrudy Mar 2015 #10

Oh how I miss Colbert Platinum. Initech Mar 2015 #11

Christ mercuryblues Mar 2015 #12

srican69

(1,426 posts)

1. I guess a story of a family of 4 struggling to pay bills is not SEXY enough

Reply to PasadenaTrudy (Original post)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 01:18 PM

Mar 2015

Brickbat

(19,339 posts)

2. It's easier to read these lifestyle stories if you include "among upper-class New Yorkers" in every

Reply to PasadenaTrudy (Original post)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 01:21 PM

Mar 2015

sentence.

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)

3. "All the news that's fit to print..."

Reply to PasadenaTrudy (Original post)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 01:22 PM

Mar 2015

Wealth porn for assholes.

The_Casual_Observer

(27,742 posts)

4. Essentially a story about NY Real Estate brokers and investors selling each other overpriced condos.

Reply to PasadenaTrudy (Original post)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 01:28 PM

Mar 2015

What else is new?

Kelvin Mace

(17,469 posts)

5. A recent article in Time

Reply to PasadenaTrudy (Original post)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 01:28 PM

Mar 2015

described the $137,000 BMW I8 as a "steal".

http://time.com/money/3697857/hybrid-sports-car-bmw-i8-is-a-steal/

Writing for Time must pay VERY well.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)

8. Yeah, that is a craptastic review

Reply to Kelvin Mace (Reply #5)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 02:33 PM

Mar 2015

Car reviews must not be his full-time thing...

lumberjack_jeff

(33,224 posts)

6. Salaries are quaint.

Reply to PasadenaTrudy (Original post)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 01:47 PM

Mar 2015

The New York economy is the selling of residences to one another.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)

7. Then

Reply to PasadenaTrudy (Original post)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 02:11 PM

Mar 2015

Cancel it. I did, works great. I am frankly fed up with what seems to be the over focus on NYC, in all the media.

PasadenaTrudy

(3,998 posts)

13. I like having an online paper

Reply to Sherman A1 (Reply #7)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 05:27 PM

Mar 2015

to read every day. The LA Times stinks, so I read the NY Times....

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)

14. I did as well,

Reply to PasadenaTrudy (Reply #13)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 05:30 PM

Mar 2015

but gave up on the NY Times as resembling journalism. Now I checkin in here, the AJ website and The Labor Tribune.

PasadenaTrudy

(3,998 posts)

15. Thanks

Reply to Sherman A1 (Reply #14)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 05:46 PM

Mar 2015

I'll look into these others.

Enrique

(27,461 posts)

9. oh look some asshole doesn't like some of the comments

Reply to PasadenaTrudy (Original post)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 02:40 PM

Mar 2015

Laer Carroll Los Angeles, California 29 minutes ago

I wonder why there is such a large group of sickly envious people who wrote to spill their bile into the electrosphere. What does it say about our national culture?

PasadenaTrudy

(3,998 posts)

10. Clueless 1%er I bet n/t

Reply to Enrique (Reply #9)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 02:43 PM

Mar 2015

Initech

(100,076 posts)

11. Oh how I miss Colbert Platinum.

Reply to PasadenaTrudy (Original post)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 02:46 PM

Mar 2015

mercuryblues

(14,531 posts)

12. Christ

Reply to PasadenaTrudy (Original post)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 03:44 PM

Mar 2015

I won't even let my 13 year old decorate his own room. I am a horrid parent.

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