I feel ya, Rye.

If I was super rich, I'd totally be living in one of Los Angeles' delux apartments overlooking the 3rd Street Promenade and have it completely decked out in comfortable chic furniture.

But I'm not super rich, so throughout college I've lived in some damn ghetto apartments. My first apartment Sophomore year I shared with 3 other girls and we furnished it with random stuff we got for free from Craigslist. It was a TINY place, but still like $1400 a month. Next I moved into another apartment that had a horrible roach problem, and some really nasty THING lurking under the kitchen sink. It was pretty bad.

Then I moved into an apartment in a building complex that my dad owns, so I got to stay there for free. The building is over 100 years old, but strangely enough, it was in the best condition out of all the apartments I've lived in. It was actually pretty great. And I had this bathroom with a genuine cast iron tub. It's lovely.

I'm moving up to San Francisco next year (which I like to think of as the cleaner, friendlier and better weather version of New York) and it would be so awesome to have like a penthouse in the City. But again, not rich! Boo! San Francisco's housing prices are actually higher than Manhattan. So that should give you some idea of how impossible it would be to have a fancy Sex and the City type apartment in SF. But a girl can dream....