Sage Arik Mason, 28, is an associate lawyer at a top tier corporate law firm who earns $225,000 a year.

Yet he’s been living in his mother’s rent-stabilized East Harlem apartment since he graduated from law school last year, partly because he has $75,000 in student debt.

“You shouldn’t have to be a doctor, a lawyer or an investment banker to survive in New York,” Mr. Mason said.

The two-bedroom that his mother moved into in 2001, he said, has given their family a “foundation of security” financially.

He likes Mr. Mamdani’s ambitions to create hundreds of thousands more affordable housing units to help low-income families like his own.

Mr. Mason acknowledged that financing such policies through higher taxes on corporations and the wealthiest 1 percent of New Yorkers might drive some wealthy individuals and businesses out of the city. But he thinks most will stay. “New York City is just a place to be and to go anywhere else is going to be a loss,” he said.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5779891&forum_id=2#49302404)

I got a $60K scholly and graduated $200,000 in debt.

I want to fucking kill myself.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5779891&forum_id=2#49302441)