How do people afford to live?

[Kanegrundar]

I read somwhere a couple weeks ago that out of all the things that we have to spend money on, housing is outpacing increases in income. That not only means it's more expensive to buy a home, but to keep one as well. I wish I could convince my fiancee to move to Montana or the Dakotas where the housing market hasn't gone completely insane yet...

Kane

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

The way I've always looked at it, as long as I can afford a roof over my head, clothes on my back, food in my stomach, bills paid, and still have a little money to go out or spend on my hobbies, then I'm living very well.

You forgot the ale and whores.

Unless those are "hobbies."

 

[Henry]

My fiancee and I make well less than 200K a month by only making around 60K between the two of us.

I think I could live on $60,000 a month...

 

[Southern Oracle]

An addendum to my previous post: I love my wife, I love her a lot. Yea, women are really expensive, but I wouldn't want to live life without her. So, it's worth it.

I have a daughter, too. So, she'll grow up to be really expensive. And according to our last sonogram, we're having a second daughter (contrary to an earlier sonogram which indicated that it was a boy), so I'm still holding out hope. Add in a female dog, and a female cat, and I'm just screwed.

Man, why didn't I pay more attention in math??? I have a wife, FOUR daughters, and THREE female cats. No WONDER I can't pay my bills...

 

[Goobermunch]

I think I could live on $60,000 a month...

Not if you only worked one month a year.

--G

 

[Desdichado]

A perhaps related phenomena: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050626/ap_on_bi_ge/the_entitlement_generation

 

[Kanegrundar]

I think I could live on $60,000 a month...

Crap. Once again, I fail to proofread. That's 60K a year. Yeesh...

Kane

 

[philreed]

It's a shame we're both already spoken for, Phil, we could have a wonderful life together.

Yeah? You a hermit? I wanted an old missile silo but my wife refuses to live underground. Me, I think it makes perfect sense. I want to see a tornado or storm come down in the ground with me.

Part of what opened my eyes was when I started searching the country for a place to dig a hole and crawl in. My wife is from North Dakota and I lived there for 10 years so I figured why not look. I was astounded at the price of houses. Hell, I found a five unti apartment complex with a 6-car garage for $60,000.

See, I'd rather spend low $$$$ for land and building and then dump the rest of my money into customizing it to suit me and filling it with what I want. With the internet and UPS it's _almost_ at the point I don't have to go anywhere. I may as well take advantage of what's at hand. Plus, living in a place like that means that I can continue to live off of pubishing RPG material.

 

[philreed]

Crap. Once again, I fail to proofread. That's 60K a year. Yeesh...

Kane

You'd be happier with $60k/month.

 

[diaglo]

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