re: The Medium income Amercan Family now earns 1/2 the income needed to buy the avg home.

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The problem is, people are not willing to start at the bottom and work their way up. (#1) My first place was a small cheaply furnished apartment over a garage that I paid $90 a month for ...
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A dollar is worth a fraction of what it was then.

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BUT, "willing to start at the bottom and work their way up" is worth far more now.

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the same paradigm, I'm not shocked.

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F off you pompous prick. You think a lot of yourself, I'm shocked.

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Correct. That's why the men 8 and below lack options.

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Roughly same number of men as women. Likely less than 10% of men are high 9's. That means each high 9 has 2.5 to 4+ women. Not likely. We're not deer with bucks rounding up the does.

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taking it out on me because it doesn't fit your preconceived worldview/personal experiences

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Pot meet kettle.

What's the difference between a lawyer and a catfish?

One is a scum sucking shite eating bottom feeder and the other is a fish.

Yall are picking out the few people living on credit cards who bust within a couple years, its unbelievable this is now page 30 of this shite


Median household is $80k, take home $65k

Please explain how you would budget (for the needs of 2 people) these line items, with a monthly income of $5400:

Healthcare
Groceries
Rent
Car/Insurance/Gas
Phone/internet
Retirement


Saying "back in my day" is just fricking dumb, yalls day came and passed 40 years ago, its a new day and we have a birthrate crisis because 3/4 of the country cant afford kids

Why cant you answer the question? How would you break down those expenses. Those are not "fun" expenses, and dont even include other basics like clothing.

If they are living in a 550k house, they bought it on a sub 3% rate. Or their parents bought the house for them. Because the monthly on a 550k today would eat up 2/3 of their take home pay if they put $110k down

Ya know. There's 30 pages of bitching in here and look, I'm not going to claim that none of the complaints have merit.

But for frick's sake. People really DO need a little fricking bit of perspective. The reality is, being "poor" in the US in 2025 still makes you one of the most comfortable people ever to walk the planet.

You can sit around a recriminate how it should be better but hey. It isn't. And, you are NOT the first people to ever encounter challenges.

20 year olds in 1945 all knew multiple friends who'd died in war.20 year olds in 1972 were looking down the barrel of getting drafted and came home to runaway inflation.

Let's not even start talking about being 20 in 1933.

You can be pissed about the cards you were dealt but at some point, ya gotta start playing the cards.

There are 7 Billion people on the planet nd even if you're in the fricking projects, you are among the top 10% of people on the planet!

Sheesh

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Damn, I wonder how much someone would have to pay per month to buy my house. Perhaps 2x as much as I pay for a 2011 note?

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Mortgage for my house jumps from 1$800 to $3500 based on current prices and rates. That is insane.

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GeauxBurrow312

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Sounds like you just need to go out in the woods and eat a bullet. Your a victim and can never succeed.

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20 year olds in 1972 were looking down the barrel of getting drafted and came home to runaway inflation.

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I am thinking the inflation didn't go nuts until the 1974 oil embargo kicked in. 72 would have been toward the end of the Nixon admin and I don't think it was that bad. But, I understand what you are saying. But boy it took off in 74 and hit its zenith under Carter.

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Poor poor pitiful you. You're just poor wittle victim.

You are putting an age of 24 on them for no reason. $80k is the median - that is everyone age 18 to 70 who is in the work force. Most households are not a 24 year old married couple. shite, the average age of marriage is 30