Image via Little Miss Sunshine.'s flickr/CCMaybe Riptide has been living off of spaghetti and buying beer with couch change for too long. Maybe seeing the parade of Hummers and yachts in South Beach rubs salt in the wound. Maybe.
Because it's not very nice. It's kind of mean, actually, that a recent study gives us such an enormous amount of catty pleasure. A few days ago, Forbes Magazine and Equifax Credit announced the top American cities guilty of overspending. They looked at the 50 largest u
What was she to do, where was she to go? She was out on her fanny. Recession stories are getting pretty standard, and boring. One formula goes like this: find some nice industry and find out how the recession is hitting it. CNN just filed one, about nannies, focusing mainly on Miami. Amanda Mezyk is a 20 year-old professional nanny who just got laid off. As part of her job she not only got a salary (the average in Miami is $700 a week), but free room and bored in a fancy pad, an insured car, and
