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The Weird Comfort I Get From Watching Cable Television
The percentage of cable cutters continues to rise, but my sentiment towards cable television remains the same
When I first moved to New York City in 2012, I was a post-grad fresh out of college. At the time, I was twenty-one years old and was making a salary of thirty-something thousand dollars a year.
Between paying for rent, food, transportation, and all of the other general costs of living in a huge metropolitan area like Manhattan, I didn’t really have much disposable income left over to splurge on things that weren’t a “priority” expense. So, when it came to television and film entertainment, I heavily relied on Netflix and [my sister’s] HBO GO account.
Over the years, as my salary increased, my apartments got nicer and more spacious and I had a lot more disposable income to play with. In the summer of 2016, I moved out of Manhattan and into Queens because the appeal of having more space and paying less for rent became much greater of an option than living in an over-priced shoebox apartment in the city.
And with this relocation, I also indulged in the luxury of finally being able to afford cable television — So, I subscribed to cable television.
