Now that I live smack dab in the middle of the city I’m going to need to look for an employment upgrade – because if I don’t start making more money I’ll be hunting for a competent Detroit bankruptcy lawyer.  I had no idea how much money it cost to live in the city.  I grew up in kind of a back woods community and my family was pretty self sufficient.  We didn’t spend a whole lot of money, because we didn’t really need to.  In the city, everything costs more:  the food, the gas, the clothes, and the entertainment are all way more expensive – but that’s not even the only problem, you also need a whole lot more stuff to get by in the city.  You simply can’t function in the city without a cell phone, a computer with a DSL connection or a GPS and none of these things are cheap.  It makes me wonder how anyone with less than a CEO position in a major company can even survive in an urban atmosphere.  I guess if things didn’t work out I could always move back with my parents – maybe if I save up for a couple hundred years I’ll have enough money to make it.