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You must be pretty good at your job if they give you enough overtime for you to make $1,900 a month.

Per month? That was in one week.

Anyway, not anymore, they banned me from doing overtime because they thought I couldn't take it. They thought I looked stressed. Maybe I was stressed. Other guys work 30 days in a row without getting stressed. I guess I'm weak compared to them.

I was only doing 60 hours per week. There are other people who work much more than 60 hours per weak. Why can't I be like them?

I know per week LOL.....my dumb mistake.

You're doing okay, My Man. Much better than you were previously, when you were on the Dole.

I can never aspire to get an apartment with a terrace--they're so expensive in NYC.

Just try to enjoy life. You live in a nice climate. 60 hours a week is quite a lot.

They must think you're okay to keep you.

Apartments with a terrace aren't that expensive in Adelaide. Anyway the majority of the apartments here have terraces. It's a standard design feature here (at least for ones built in the last 10 years).

In Adelaide apartments with terraces probably cost more than apartments without terraces in NYC.

It depends on what part of NYC one lives in.

You'd have to live pretty far out in the Outer Boroughs to get a 2-bedroom apartment for less than $1,500 a month. Mostly unterraced.

Do you still get some sort of "rent assistance?" I would say: probably not, based upon you making at least $50,000 a year.

Only a little bit. Enough to pay a quarter of my rent. When I do overtime I lose rent assistance for that fortnight. I guess I can't complain about that. It's not all about the money.

On good days work is a brilliant distraction from the endless negative thoughts. On bad days it's the cause of them.

Do they still have rent controlled apartments in NYC? Do they still let hipsters live in old warehouses in the Village?

Rent CONTROL is very rare. Much more common is Rent STABILIZATION, where the rent can only be increased a certain amount after the expiration of a lease. Many of these sorts of apartments, since the 1980s, have been converted to co-ops (though there are still about a million rent-stabilized apartments).

On some occasions, the "hipsters," over the past 40 years or so, have renovated those warehouse-type places themselves, using their own money, and suffering abuse from their landlords, who were thinking that these places would be used for commercial purposes. In the old days (like the 1970s), the rents would have been quite low, causing the abuse.

If they did not renovate them, and they got those apartments recently, their rent would be sky-high---like $3,000 per month and more.

Yeah, I saw a musical about that. It felt like it went for five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes.