/lit/ - Literature

>>23057152
You have nothing to say. You are not a writer.

>>22632925
In Canada, it is illegal to call a man in a dress "he"

>>22611305
10 years ago a bartender could make $1000 a weekend and you could find a decent studio apartment, actually pretty stylish, for like $1,000 or so in downtown Vancouver.
>hipsters
Your average hipster was taking home like $3000-$4000 a month doing various jobs. I dated a woman who wrote for a local magazine, bartended and had minor roles in local TV and film, and she would average like $2000-$5000 a month and she shared a 2 bedroom with another women for around $1000 as her share of the rent. Keep in mind, these people had like 2 part-time jobs and maybe a side-hustle and had tons of extra cash.
>2023
I've been working various jobs and meeting people in the Kelowna area, and I can say there are so few actual hipsters here. The people you'd mistake for hipsters are generally all living at home, where you can't be a hipster and live at home, it is just not possible. However, in the "hipster" neighbourhoods in Kelowna, which is generally north of the cop shop and to the west of Glenmore, east of Water(Boomer) street, nobody can rent any 1 bedroom for less than like $2000 a month. You cannot have a bohemian neighbourhood if young people need a full time, 9-5 job just to afford rent while also having no extra spending money.
>2010ish
Hard to describe to people just how much cheaper life was, but I ran with friends and dated women who had extra money at the end of the month while renting downtown and not even working full time.
>living as a broke writer
I knew a girl who wrote, but she was into some weird lesbian fan fiction shit so I didn't really click with her, but she did 2-3 gay weddings a month and with that money, working 2-3 days ( plus edit time ) she would pay her rent and have extra left over. I know she didn't make shit off her writing as of the mid 2010's, but she could be today and I wouldn't know.