[littledanehren]

I don't get it. He was spending $40,000/month on his living expenses while being afraid that he wouldn't be able to afford diapers and food for his baby? How was this guy running his life so wrong? Did it somehow cost him that much to maintain his unsellable house in the financial district of New York? Are we supposed to feel sympathy for him?

[panacea]

EDIT: I've deleted my comment and my other replies to this discussion. As irrational as it is, my silly e-psyche recognizes it's easy to hit the delete button rather than watch my opinion down-arrowed.

[apotheon]

Maybe he should. I write for a publisher whose offices are more than a thousand miles away from me. We have this nifty thing called the Internet now, and postal mail works even when you don't live in the same city anyway (postal mail being how most book proposals and manuscripts are delivered when they are not sent digitally). Even if you have to fly halfway across the country twice a year for meetings, which is more often than many people would have to actually meet face-to-face with editors at publishers (judging by my limited experience at least), it costs less than sweet digs in the financial district of one of the most expensive cities in the world.

[panacea]

"We have this nifty thing called the Internet now"

I accept your criticism of my comment (in support of living in areas beyond your means), but that's unnecessarily snarky, sir.

[apotheon]

Nothing personal. It was meant to be merely "flippant", and not so much "snarky".

[danhak]

Because the only two choices are whether to live in the heart of Manhattan or the middle of nowhere?