return2ozma@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 2 months agoAmericans say they need to earn $186K to live comfortably — but is it enough?www.thehill.comexternal-linkmessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up1121arrow-down110
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minus-squareSquishyPandaDev@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up31arrow-down2·2 months agoBut my housing prices in Bum Fuck Nowhere are fine, so that must mean it’s true every where else. /s
minus-squareDr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down5·2 months agoThat’s the whole point; location. The amount necessary to be comfortable is very dependent on your location.
minus-squaresunzu@kbin.runlinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down1·2 months agoProperty prices correlate strongly with local income levels. Owners know how much you make and they fix prices of wages, rent and other cost. Hence why u can make objectively high income and feel like a peasant. Buying power is eroded to the point where 100k is just getting by wage in Seattle or some shit
minus-squareMojave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoYeah and I’m not getting this fat ass cloud SE job while living in fucking Yoder, Wyoming
But my housing prices in Bum Fuck Nowhere are fine, so that must mean it’s true every where else. /s
That’s the whole point; location. The amount necessary to be comfortable is very dependent on your location.
Property prices correlate strongly with local income levels. Owners know how much you make and they fix prices of wages, rent and other cost.
Hence why u can make objectively high income and feel like a peasant.
Buying power is eroded to the point where 100k is just getting by wage in Seattle or some shit
Yeah and I’m not getting this fat ass cloud SE job while living in fucking Yoder, Wyoming