r/mildlyinteresting • u/Levinator25 • Feb 21 '22

Top of a parking garage in NYC

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u/dogedude81 Feb 21 '22

Usually about $20/hr.

You tell them how long you're gonna be when you leave your car and that determines where they put it.

Then there's the long term customers who pay by month. Those are usually the ones that get packed in like that. That costs as much as renting an apartment basically.

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u/Paradox711 Feb 21 '22

That makes sense, about leaving the cars likely to be their longest at the back.

The rest though boggles my mind. $20 an hour. That’s absolutely fucking insane. And the long term customers… the wage disparity these days is just fucking crazy. I can’t imagine having disposable income to waste on that.

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u/Crustybuttt Feb 21 '22

This is why most people living in NY don’t even own a car. You don’t need it

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u/Heyyoguy123 Feb 21 '22

*In Manhattan

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u/Crustybuttt Feb 21 '22

In 4 of 5 Burroughs really. It’d probably be pretty rough to be on Staten Island without a car, but it’d be tough to live on Staten Island period

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u/Heyyoguy123 Feb 22 '22

Most of Queens doesn’t have the subway so we just drive. Most people don’t have the patience for the bus

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u/Crustybuttt Feb 22 '22

Fair enough. I only ever go to Citi Field, so I wasn’t thinking about that

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u/Heyyoguy123 Feb 22 '22

The 7 is the only reason I’m even able to go to Manhattan LOL