My library-card costs 8€ a year and I can work there all day long in a nice quite environment. Internet is free, so are beverages. It also has a streaming-service and I can rent consoles and such there as well. I dont understand why someone would pay 600€ a month just for a desk to work at
$2000/mo in the midwest would rent a house, if you’re just going to work remote anyway.
$800 mortgage for a house in the Midwest here. Nice house too.
What apr is that% no chance its the 6-7% that’s the norm now. But good for you for locking it it when it was low!
There are small towns with reasonable internet providers that still have houses for under $100k, sometimes well under, so yes, that’s possible. Not necessarily towns in the middle of nowhere, either.
Idk what APR our mortgage is, because it’s actually our father in law who got it, but ours is $550/month in the Midwest.
Property taxes keep going up each year though. We’re paying a few thousand a year now.
Not nice people though.
it’s like paying for a gun to shoot yourself with
it’s like *renting a gun to shoot yourself with
Smart move, what are they gonna do, charge late fees?
It’s just where he lives. All the things he pays for is more than what I pay for a 4 bedroom 2 living room house, fuel for my vehicles and water bill, that allows me to wash clothes whenever needed. You’ll hear how expensive shit is mostly from city dwellers. They live packed in with millions, competing for the same housing and jobs, and think you’re ignorant or a dullard for not wanting the same things they do.
think you’re ignorant or a dullard for not wanting the same things they do.
I encourage this because the more people who think this way the fewer people will want to live out in the boonies which means less light and noise pollution and no NIMBYs whining about the way my pigs smell.
I’d kill to live out in the boonies. But it’s hard to find a job out there if you’re in certain fields, or a rental. Unless you can afford to buy, you can’t live in the country. I live in the suburbs and my rent is still insane. I’m trying to pivot to a better paying career where I can work remotely, but I can’t do that overnight. Trust me, I hate living where I can hear people. All I want is to someday be able to walk outside into my own damned yard and not stare someone else in the face, but I have neither a yard nor privacy.
I don’t think that’s fair
If I could go live out in the woods by myself with my dog I’d love to do it. As it is I’ve moved out to a pretty rural area of my state because I hate living in the city.
However, prices are still pretty damn high out here, I just get a bit more space. On the other hand I have to go into work once every two weeks, and starting in a few months, I’ll have to go in 3 days a week. Driving in with traffic takes anywhere between 2 and 3 hours. But finding a job in my field closer to me is next to.impossible. so a lot of people live in the city, and chose to live in small hutches with 3 or 4 roommates. A lot of them would leave if they could too.
The only thing that might be prohibitive is meetings or calls. But lots of libraries have little meeting rooms for you to be a bit louder in.
It’s €pe, not the land of “free”(as in being dead). For me municipal library is 0₽, city library 0₽ and State Library that has every single book published in country also 0₽, but you have to be in right city.
Internet is free
And in Europe libraries are homes of knowledge, not warehouses of books. What is legal in Europe will get Internet Archive in trouble in the USA.
Last time i used library internet was a couple years ago, €4,50 for 15 minutes and on their outdated computers that do everything is slow as possible.
It took 14 minutes to print a single sided page from a government website.
One library an hour away across town by Uber cuz dude has no car or we work right down the block probably.
Right? This guy is really not smart if he’s paying $600 a month for a desk. He could go to a Starbucks everyday and spend $10 in food each day, and it would still be half the price to sit at a table and use wifi.
Hell, I’m pretty sure he could buy a desk and have it delivered to him for less than $600.
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“Works in social media advertising”
Boyyyyy. RUN.
Yep, did this for a couple years. Sucked my soul dry.
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A photo of a young man sitting at the top of a set of wooden steps attached to a bunk bed. Between the two beds is a chalkboard with “1”, an arrow pointing up, and “Zach” written on the left side and “Mike”, an arrow pointing down, and “2” written on the right side. Under the bed is a gap with a pair of shoes and a couple of hard plastic travel bags. Tucked between the stairs on the left side of the bunk bed and the cement wall is a bicycle. A pot plant is barely in frame, and the floor appears to be bare cement, the doors and wall a temporary wood and clear plastic.
Underneath the image is a 4chan post reading:
'Steven T. Johnson, 27, works in social media advertising and lives in Hollywood. He spends most of his days using things he does not own.
'He takes a ride-share service to get to the gym; he does not own a car. At the gym, he rents a locker. He uses the gym’s laundry service because he does not own a washing machine. Johnson doesn’t even have an apartment, actually. He rents a bed in a large room with other people who rent beds, for nights, weeks or months at a time. All the residents share a kitchen and bathrooms. Johnson also rents a desk at WeWork, a coworking space. And he says the only clothes he owns are two versions of the same outfit.
‘Johnson says he owns so little that he has even been able to get rid of his backpack. “I gave that up two months ago,” he says. He says that for him, this lifestyle isn’t cumbersome or confusing. “That’s what’s great,” he says. “When you don’t own thing, you don’t have to keep track of them. You just show up.” He pays $1,400 a month to rent a bunk and an additional $600 a month to rent a desk to work at.’
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I assume you arent in any transcribing group, right? I was a transcriber on reddit but they stopped
I’m not aware of a transcribing group on Lemmy, and I haven’t seen other transcribers. Maybe I should start one.
Just made a community c/lemmy_scribes if you want to join or anything. 💜
Sounds like homelesness but taxed and with extra steps.
I assume this dude is some kind of extreme minimalist or something. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Minimalist for 2k/month sounds kinda fucked up tho :D
At that point, convert a van or something. It’d be a better move
For real, this guy is just terrible with money. What the fuck is he renting a desk for $600 a month for when Starbucks has free Wi-Fi?
Maybe there is, though.
As someone growing up with a hoarder, I have felt this compulsion strongly.
I have adversely nuked my files on my PC before because it’s lower stakes than actual items. I desire full oversight and to know the purpose of everything to know whether or not it is needed, and I constantly fall far short.
I made the stupid decision to use a low-capacity SSD as my boot drive along with the decision that “This is my boot drive, nothing except my OS should be installed here.”, and now, years later, I can’t update my graphics card driver because it’s full.
Is this not just a meme lol why would you assume this is real
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Only 2k to be a child again? Sweet
If I have to live like this somebody is gonna die that’s a fucking promise. I refuse.
If I have to live like this *somebody is gonna die
Is it you?
Yes
Itll be somebody like me. I snore like a small rhino. No one would put up with me in this situation.
Also, this is not living.
You’ll own nothing, and be happy!.. sounds like the WEF has control over 4Chan now
Shoot the desklords!
The bed next to him says Zach ⬆️ and Mike ⬇️ not Steve? 🤔
Well, yeah, he gets the staircase.
This is Bay Area, you fool. What did you expect for $1400, a pillow?
Johnson decides to live like a pleeb in an area that’s costly. Johnson’s story sounds like there isn’t an alternative.
I work in the same industry and have net of 2700€ a month after taxes and rent.
Don’t get glued to geographic location that eats all your hard earned money.
In fairness to him, we don’t know what his net is. How much he makes or what he has left over after paying that $2k per month isn’t mentioned. He could be sitting on an enormous savings.
… Which I guess is okay for him, specifically, assuming that hypothetical is even true, but it’s still an outrageous amount to be paying for what he’s getting.
The pod space things are criminally overpriced and sometimes dangerous. There was this video of someone showing “futuristic” pods made of cheap plastic and electronic-only doors.
If a fire breaks out in these spaces, people will die. I don’t understand why a fire marshal would even allow these places that are filled with dozens of people and no emergency exits.
A trailer park or a tiny home sounds like a penthouse suite compared to these places. But they will build these and charge this much because people are that dumb. I get that LA housing costs are extreme, but surely there are many things you can try to do before this.
But they will build these and charge this much because people are that dumb.
It’s not so much that people are dumb, it’s just that there’s nothing else like it available without those issues.
That’s fucking depressing. Though the question I have is - from the looks of it, he works remotely, so why even bother living in such a high cost area? I’m pretty sure this kind of money can rent a much nicer place, possibly even in the same state.
As someone that lives in SoCal, you are correct. You can rent a room for cheaper than what he’s paying. It just won’t be in Hollywood. Still, I really don’t understand why most people would want to live there, as that area is pretty much trash.
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Green text = bullshit.
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