My daughter lives near Riverside and she really want to move out of Cali. But her husband has family there and doesn’t want to leave. They make about $80k a year and are renters with no savings and no retirement accounts. $80k is surviving and barely making it from payday to payday income in Cali. We could live quite nicely in Alaska on that income, while owning a house. And many people do it on less. Her husband is morbidly obese and she’s said she out of there should he die young.
$80k gross in a coastal state is inadequate unfortunately. And that’s a moderate salary for just one person. Are they both working?