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We’re paying $63 for a fast-food taco meal — LA has gone crazy

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Buddy, can you spare a hundy?

I don’t know what’s going on in the world, but this inflation is really becoming straight-up bananas! Especially here in Los Angeles, where life has become almost too expensive to believe.

Just last week, my hairdresser, Pepper, told me that she went to a local fast-food taco joint with her son, and they had food and two drinks. It cost them $63! And she’s a tiny woman, so she’s not exactly ordering the two chicken chalupa supreme.

Another friend of mine, who works as a masseuse, complained that she has to pay $3,000 a month for childcare — for one child. That is a lot of back rubs.

She also told me that filling her car’s gas tank cost $140! Unreal.

Another friend, Angela, who also has to drive all over town, couldn’t believe the cost of a dozen eggs was nearing $12 in some places. Mine are $13 at the farmers market. One avocado — one! — cost me $7! It was a big one, but still.

My girlfriend, who lives up in northern California, got evicted for not paying her rent when the living conditions were uninhabitable. Even after making $40,000 a year, she still couldn’t afford her apartment. So now she is forced to live in a shipping container in the foothills. Literally. And it’s so hot in there.

My........

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