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minus-squareBeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·9 hours 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-up2·3 hours agoHow much is your rent, if it’s not too much to ask?
minus-squareBeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 hours 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-squaretym@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 hours agoprobably should have put that in your original comment tbh. You implied one can make it on ~$70k near SF as if your bills were 1:1
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.
probably should have put that in your original comment tbh. You implied one can make it on ~$70k near SF as if your bills were 1:1