cost of lifestyle
green is the new pink. (actually green is the old new pink, it is not the new pink anymore.) If gap had their way, red would be the new pink. Another thing that gap would do if they had their way would be to make black the old black (like the audrey black).
If you don't quite follow, either you have not been subjected to the gap's two big ad campaigns right now or you are just not a fashion afficiando like myself (ha!).
Green is also the Color of Money.
The Color of Money is also an old Paul Newman/Tom Cruise movie. This is back when TC was a boyish stud instead of a raving scientology lunatic. He played a young pool shark who learns how to pool hustle from the original pool hustler, Paul Newman, a hardened veteran.
Anyways, what was I talking about? Oh yeah, money.
bling bling.
people in the midwest love to say bling bling. my most vivid recollection of this is once when I was in line for airport security and the screener asked a black woman to take off her sandals because they 'looked like they had some bling bling on them'. they actually had a few little beads on them, but you could tell that the screener really loved saying 'bling bling'. I think it literally made her day.
anyways, money.
I have a habit of picking up little phrases that have no base in fact and saying them randomly in casual conversation.
"green is the new pink"
"80% of 'just kidding' is actually the truth"
"$200,000 is the new $100,000"
I just found out today that there is a grain of truth in the third one.
If you are a new yorker, you might want to shade your eyes, because this next picture hurts.
quick translation: that is the amount of money it takes to equal a normal 100k income in each of the cities listed above.
all of the sudden I feel like I should be on welfare or prozac or something. well not really, but either of those sounds pretty dramatic, and it's fun to sound dramatic.
So I noodled this one over for a few seconds, and I can up with a pretty decent explanation for this. People always use the term 'cost of living'. I don't think this term is appropriate, because it makes it sound like living in any specific place is just as good as living in any other place, that's why you have to adjust the money to make it equal.
But really, who ever said that living in two places was equal?
Obviously, this all depends on preference, but living in two completely different places is clearly not equal.
For this reason, I propose that this terminology be changed to 'cost of lifestyle', because really, thats what it is. People are paying more to experience a certain lifestyle, because they value that experience for some reason.
Of course, if they don't value that experience for some reason, then they are pretty much just wasting money like crazy.
[PS- for the record, I am very aware that the above is basically just a way of me rationalizing the fact that I pay out the nose to live here (except for the part about bling bling, that actually happened).]
If you don't quite follow, either you have not been subjected to the gap's two big ad campaigns right now or you are just not a fashion afficiando like myself (ha!).
Green is also the Color of Money.
The Color of Money is also an old Paul Newman/Tom Cruise movie. This is back when TC was a boyish stud instead of a raving scientology lunatic. He played a young pool shark who learns how to pool hustle from the original pool hustler, Paul Newman, a hardened veteran.
Anyways, what was I talking about? Oh yeah, money.
bling bling.
people in the midwest love to say bling bling. my most vivid recollection of this is once when I was in line for airport security and the screener asked a black woman to take off her sandals because they 'looked like they had some bling bling on them'. they actually had a few little beads on them, but you could tell that the screener really loved saying 'bling bling'. I think it literally made her day.
anyways, money.
I have a habit of picking up little phrases that have no base in fact and saying them randomly in casual conversation.
"green is the new pink"
"80% of 'just kidding' is actually the truth"
"$200,000 is the new $100,000"
I just found out today that there is a grain of truth in the third one.
If you are a new yorker, you might want to shade your eyes, because this next picture hurts.
quick translation: that is the amount of money it takes to equal a normal 100k income in each of the cities listed above.
all of the sudden I feel like I should be on welfare or prozac or something. well not really, but either of those sounds pretty dramatic, and it's fun to sound dramatic.
So I noodled this one over for a few seconds, and I can up with a pretty decent explanation for this. People always use the term 'cost of living'. I don't think this term is appropriate, because it makes it sound like living in any specific place is just as good as living in any other place, that's why you have to adjust the money to make it equal.
But really, who ever said that living in two places was equal?
Obviously, this all depends on preference, but living in two completely different places is clearly not equal.
For this reason, I propose that this terminology be changed to 'cost of lifestyle', because really, thats what it is. People are paying more to experience a certain lifestyle, because they value that experience for some reason.
Of course, if they don't value that experience for some reason, then they are pretty much just wasting money like crazy.
[PS- for the record, I am very aware that the above is basically just a way of me rationalizing the fact that I pay out the nose to live here (except for the part about bling bling, that actually happened).]
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