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Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably (www.bankrate.com)
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[–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Didn't even have friends when I moved, got a bedroom in a shared house. £425 and today with inflation you can find similar for £500-600 a month across most of the UK outside of cities anyway. That is bills included.

So the only essential spending left really is food. Currently that costs me about £60/month from Aldi but I am earning more now. If I had to cut back I don't know exactly how much I could reduce it to. £30-50 would be pretty easy to cut back to by cutting out meat and cheese while £10 would be high carb poverty food and possibly scurvy.

The rest I saved or spent on fun things. Life was pretty good as I made friends with some of the other guys living there. Moving house I did with a bag and a few bin liners, I barely owned anything in the first place so I just carried stuff and took a train.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    All said, respectable - "live with almost no property at the cheapest rate available" is not terribly bad advice. But again, I think even following that advise would be a higher cost for lots of people in many places in the world.

    But is that really the world we want to build? "Okay everyone, aim for the bare minimum?" I know I've been lucky in my life and haven't had to struggle often - but I don't think it's unfair to assume that everyone should be able to enjoy luxuries from time to time.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Nothing wrong with aiming for more but if you think you need 150k to be comfortable I think it says more about you.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Unless you we're born with an expensive physical or mental anomaly in a county that has poor healthcare support?

    Or you can't be comfortable with the unhoused in your city and you build, run, and operate a private halfway shelter?

    Okay - okay - I'll cede. I think were both being hyperbolic. I'm genuinely not convinced that a particular income level makes you a monster, but I can grant that it is a yellow/red flag.

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