It’s downright vulgar!

That commie rag, the New York Times gets it right once in a while. In a recent article they went and itemized the minimum expenses anyone living in the City must put up with if they are to live like civilized people. Now, to avoid having all of the communist and Marxist propaganda drown out the seriousness of this situation, I went through the article and pulled out all of the essentials any elite living in New York must have. Anything less than this is unthinkable.

… at least two vacations a year, a winter trip to the sun and a spring trip to the ski slopes. Total minimum cost: $16,000.

A modest three-bedroom apartment, she said, which was purchased for $1.5 million, not the top of the market at all, carries a monthly mortgage of about $8,000 and a co-op maintenance fee of $8,000 a month. Total cost: $192,000. A summer house in Southampton that cost $4 million, again not the top of the market, carries annual mortgage payments of $240,000.

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A chauffeur’s pay is between $75,000 and $125,000 a year

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A personal trainer at $80 an hour three times a week comes to about $12,000 a year.

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“a woman can spend $10,000 or $15,000 on a dress. If she goes to three or four of those a year, she’s not going to wear the same dress.” Total cost for three gowns: about $35,000.

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One hour of tutoring once a week is $125. “That’s the low end,” she said. “The higher end is 150, 175.” SAT tutors are about $250 an hour. Total cost for 30 weeks of regular tutoring: $3,750.Two children in private school: $64,000. [In my case, this is considerably higher]

Nanny: $45,000. [And oh my God, we need at least one of these. An attractive one with "benefits" can run up to $80,000.]

about $425 every 10 days on groceries for her family. Annual cost: about $15,000. [What are they feeding their family? Loaves of bread and day-old fish?]

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Each Brooks Brothers suit costs about $1,000. If you run a bank, you can’t look like a slob.

The total costs here, which do not include a lot of things, like kennels for the dog when the family is away, summer camp, spas and other grooming for the human members of the family, …  and frozen hot chocolates at Serendipity, are $790,750, which would require about a $1.6-million salary to compensate for taxes.

Think about that for a moment. To properly live a life in New York without turning into a dirty, unkempt pleb, you need to pull in at least 2 million dollars. Now, this is for the lowest of the elite, the nouveau riche, those whose tastes aren’t even refined yet. This would barely cover my basic food and familial expenses in a year. How can anyone expect to live a civilized life in New York on anything less? In fact, this could lead to a mass exodus from the island to the scourge of the suburbs, or even New Jersey if it were to go through. All of those beautiful houses and apartments sold in firesales to ensure that the executives are able to continue their work and who is going to buy them?

Marxists and plebians!

Those will be the only people left with enough money to afford a civilized lifestyle after big government limits our salaries to such an inhumane, uncivilized, disgusting level.

Looking at my books I may only be able to take one vacation to my private island this year. It’s simply barbaric.