Thursday, December 22, 2011
People ask me all the time how I like living here and my ordinary answer is “it’s different.” The sheer amount of people alone makes everything much different. Not only is the east more populous, but it also is smaller. So everything is congested—the streets, the sidewalks, public transportation, the stores.
Just how different things are, especially when it comes to money, was reflected in the ads in today’s New York Times. I do not recall seeing ads for things like this in the Denver Post:
• $2600 Rado watch, which is cheap compared to the TagHeuer $3800 new Link Automatic chronograph (I am not sure what exactly is automated)
• $7500 Tiffany fleu de lis key in platinum with diamonds
• $11,800 pearl necklace and earrings
• $200 a pair of crystal champagne flutes (each glass therefore significantly exceeds the amount I spend on the bottle of wine); also a $40 electric wine bottle opener (marked down from $50)
• $999 Bang and Olufsen iPod and iPhone dock (I think iPods go for about $200)
• $190 2.6 oz bottle of perfume (although Bloomingdale’s will include a free cubic zirconia stud earrings with a purchase of $75 or more) (there are lots and lots of perfume and men’s cologne ads; I guess because you don’t want to stink around all these people)
• $1245 fox fur bolero jacket (marked down from $2495)
• $118 Coach scarf, with $78 matching mittens
• $41,000 Hamilton handmade buckle bracelet with 66-carats of sapphires and 6-carats of diamonds set in 18k white gold (you would think they would not bother to list the price because if you have to ask you clearly cannot afford this; and I gotta tell you, this thing is ugly proving you can have more money than taste)
• Many ads for Coach, Van Cleef and Arpels and Rolex don’t list prices. Dom Perignon has a full page ad featuring their Vintage 2000 wine which goes for just under $200. It would taste great in those expensive glasses.
Just how different things are, especially when it comes to money, was reflected in the ads in today’s New York Times. I do not recall seeing ads for things like this in the Denver Post:
• $2600 Rado watch, which is cheap compared to the TagHeuer $3800 new Link Automatic chronograph (I am not sure what exactly is automated)
• $7500 Tiffany fleu de lis key in platinum with diamonds
• $11,800 pearl necklace and earrings
• $200 a pair of crystal champagne flutes (each glass therefore significantly exceeds the amount I spend on the bottle of wine); also a $40 electric wine bottle opener (marked down from $50)
• $999 Bang and Olufsen iPod and iPhone dock (I think iPods go for about $200)
• $190 2.6 oz bottle of perfume (although Bloomingdale’s will include a free cubic zirconia stud earrings with a purchase of $75 or more) (there are lots and lots of perfume and men’s cologne ads; I guess because you don’t want to stink around all these people)
• $1245 fox fur bolero jacket (marked down from $2495)
• $118 Coach scarf, with $78 matching mittens
• $41,000 Hamilton handmade buckle bracelet with 66-carats of sapphires and 6-carats of diamonds set in 18k white gold (you would think they would not bother to list the price because if you have to ask you clearly cannot afford this; and I gotta tell you, this thing is ugly proving you can have more money than taste)
• Many ads for Coach, Van Cleef and Arpels and Rolex don’t list prices. Dom Perignon has a full page ad featuring their Vintage 2000 wine which goes for just under $200. It would taste great in those expensive glasses.
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