return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · edit-21 month agoIs $140,000 the New Poverty Line for Americans?www.vice.comexternal-linkmessage-square105fedilinkarrow-up1260arrow-down120
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minus-squareBeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down6·1 month agoI mean, we’re poor but we make less than half that just outside San Francisco. Honestly we’re doing okay. We don’t get any of the luxuries my parents had at our age, but we have smartphones so we can never get away from anything!
minus-squareSocialism_Everyday@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoHow much is your rent, if it’s not too much to ask?
minus-squareBeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down4·1 month agowe live with family, maintain the property and shit. that’s our rent. given our locale it comes out to about 15k/yr net we’re saving.
minus-squareBeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·1 month agoi’m disabled. my medical care costs more than rent would. should i have included that too?
minus-squareayyy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 month agoYes. That seems pretty relevant to your financial story.
I mean, we’re poor but we make less than half that just outside San Francisco. Honestly we’re doing okay. We don’t get any of the luxuries my parents had at our age, but we have smartphones so we can never get away from anything!
How much is your rent, if it’s not too much to ask?
we live with family, maintain the property and shit. that’s our rent. given our locale it comes out to about 15k/yr net we’re saving.
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i’m disabled. my medical care costs more than rent would. should i have included that too?
Yes. That seems pretty relevant to your financial story.