re: How can the average person afford to live?

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People want what they can’t afford.

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Also...

Some people don't know the difference between a 'want' and a 'need.'

Pretty sure that $2750 doesn’t include property taxes or home owners insurance.

From a boomer who has worked his whole life and still working. Asked no one for nothing and what I have is not much but it's payed for through sacrifice and hard work.

Again,

You're a whiny bitch.

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$ 1,900/mo for rent? What do you get for that? Seriously.

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I'm paying way more than that.

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Found the boomer. How much was a house then you old piece of shite?

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A house when? Benito made it in the last ten years.

When I got started my wife and I could not afford a decent house. But as a consequence of me having worked my arse off, I knew how to do some crafts. So we bought a house that was about 60% finished, because the contractor had gone out of business. Times were tough because we were in the throes of the ‘80’s oil bust. We finished it ourselves.

We were what you would call poor, although we thought we were well off. We went ten years after that with zero vacations. We drove old second hand cars, and we could only afford going out to eat about once per month. But we kept our heads down, working and raising kids. Eventually we got enough of a financial cushion, and enough work experience, and we started a business.

Do you have any more gotchas about how easy it used to be? It was easy, but not because the tasks were easier; it was because the people were tougher.

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When you were our age, you could work at the fricking grocery store or fricking McDonald’s and own a home and support your damn family.

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I also lived in an old farmhouse without central heat and air. I remember hanging thermal curtains to keep the heat and air in the main living room. One summer the candles on the top shelves literally melted due to the heat. I also didn’t have a car with AC until I was in my 30s.
I do well now, but I’ve been getting out of bed everyday for 20+ years going to work for the same company and generally work hard.

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That's straight up bullshite! I have a very good paying job and if I only work 40hrs a week I barely can pay my bills and living expenses with zero left over. I don't have a car note or credit cards.

I don't know how a lot of people make it.

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Here is the answer right in front of us!

This guy makes it (barely) on 40 hours per week. That’s the same situation my wife and I were in back in 1985. But I didn’t just work 40 hours per week. I worked about 55. And you know what we did with all of that extra money? Well, we didn’t blow it on indulgences like vacations and restaurants. We saved, and we developed the financial cushion I referred to in the post above.

You guys think we had it easier, but we didn’t. We (some of us) were just more willing to put in the extra work. You’re not willing. Don’t blame us for that.

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This guy makes it (barely) on 40 hours per week. That’s the same situation my wife and I were in back in 1985. But I didn’t just work 40 hours per week. I worked about 55. And you know what we did with all of that extra money? Well, we didn’t blow it on indulgences like vacations and restaurants. We saved, and we developed the financial cushion I referred to in the post above.

You guys think we had it easier, but we didn’t. We (some of us) were just more willing to put in the extra work. You’re not willing. Don’t blame us for that.

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That dude either doesn't know how to manage his money or he has no clue what a "very good paying job" actually is.

HAS to be 1 of the 2.

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But hey, corporate profits are at an all-time high so The Market will surely sort this out.

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The market would sort this out if the government would get out of the way and stop picking winners and losers, you dumbfrick.