Posted on 04/25/2017 8:47:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I lived in Manhattan 30 years ago and even then 100,000 a year was getting by and would not buy digs on Central Park west or the upper east side or townhome village digs
30,000 today in NYC for four person family is damn poor as hell
It would be tuff even in rural mid Tn unless you don’t have a mortgage or eat ramen noodles 6 nights a week
A couple of single person with low expense needs can survive on 30,000 but even then it’s hard
Unless self employed they pay on federal income tax and might get 2-4000 in UTC
A form of welfare basically
I know a guy that is widowed. Got paid for a private life insurance and his wife’s employer provided policy. He paid off his nice home and had enough to retire early. So he gets obamacare with subsidies.
Meanwhile I’m self employed and paying the penalty.
Paying through the nose for the privilege of being surrounded by faggies and liberals plus their far left political culture makes no sense to this gun owning Southern redneck.
And yes, the leftwing zoo known as Asheville NC is but a two hour drive from my backwater digs.
I find it hard to believe that zoning laws would allow this. Also it seems to me the company should be paying the going per diem rate for the area.
Obamacare has to go!
There hasn’t been a $1200 rental in Palo Alto in many years. Unless your trying to house your cockapoo. See what rents really are today:
http://m.homes.com/rentals/palo-alto-ca/#!
I’m guessing you’ve never been to the Bay Area...
I wish every conservative had your kind of heart. This would be a very different country.
Low income threshold for 4 folks is only in the 30,000s.
May be a NYer again in the next year.
Once the son (wife's from previous marriage) passes the wife is talking about moving to the Evansville area (about 40 miles SSW of Rochester) to be near the daughter and grandkids.
I won't say she's serious but I just traded my Mercedes in for a RAV4 because a recent trip taught me that a low-slung, rock hard racing suspension and NY potholes are a bad combination - blew 2 tires at $370 a POP.
One of the hidden assumptions underlying the welfare state is that the government should subsidize poor people living in very expensive areas.
That is totally insane.
If they want subsidized housing make it available in Dubuque and Omaha—but subsidizing housing in the Bay Area just adds to the insanity of that market.
(Then the liberals will whine—where will our workers live?
My answer—allow lower cost housing to be built with less regulation and no subsidy or mow your own lawn).
“My son rented a shed in someone’s yard last summer in Palo Alto for $1300.”
He got a bargain. Palo Alto rents and home prices have gotten absurdly high. Demand exceeds supply, and the powers that be will not allow supply to increase.
You have to subsidize the lives of the Bay Area nannys and gardeners...
I read a comment yesterday outside of free republic (where I rarely go) from a Bay Area poster who raised a concern I had not previously considered. Imagine one third of the folks in the congested, inflated real estate market where you live suddenly left. Billions in value, if not trillions would evaporate. He claims that this is what has the leftwards in the Bay Area in a panic.
Myself, I think it is fair enough. For eight years the rest of the country suffered while these folks enjoyed the perks of power bestowed by 0bama so from my perspective it is their turn to reap what they sowed.
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