We decided to put a price tag on the dream lives of a wide range of New Yorkers, all 30 and under and childless. A one-pound container of strawberries at Eli’s costs $30. Half the households that live here simply cannot afford to, according to another, which says you have to make $100,000 just to reasonably get by - to afford food and transportation to work.
New York is the most expensive city in the world, according to one recent report. Sure, it’s always been ludicrously expensive, and the “what you could get for the same price of this Chelsea studio in Ohio” game is our little way of torturing ourselves.
