How do you plan to survive this Winter?

[Corpsey]

it's a sign of how much money there is in NYC though, because the restaurants with $50 entrees are packed and and plenty of people are still taking those $70 Ubers to the airport. Wall St and tech bro money still abounds, single dudes/dudettes making $200k+ don't give a shit about a $25 glass of wine or $30 appetizer.

London's like this, if you go looking about the mind boggles at how many rich people there must be, and how rich they must be.

While obviously there's plenty of people living at the other end of that scale too.

 

[version]

While obviously there's plenty of people living at the other end of that scale too.

Across town, in a top-floor apartment in a converted house, aspiring journalist Allison Tyson was wrapped in a thick coat and scarf, going through her meals for the next few days: eight sachets of store-brand instant soup costing 90 pence (around $1).

“They’ll last me for about three days,” Tyson, 44, said as she spread out the silver packets on the stovetop of her kitchenette. “I just can’t afford” any more.

 

[Corpsey]

Must cos a lot to heat some of those big hampstead houses, prayers going out to them 🙏

 

[Mr. Tea]

Across town, in a top-floor apartment in a converted house, aspiring journalist Allison Tyson was wrapped in a thick coat and scarf, going through her meals for the next few days: eight sachets of store-brand instant soup costing 90 pence (around $1).

“They’ll last me for about three days,” Tyson, 44, said as she spread out the silver packets on the stovetop of her kitchenette. “I just can’t afford” any more.

She should probably just leave journalism to people who've earned the right to be journalists by having rich and well-connected parents.