Reality is two incomes have become necessary BECAUSE people want more and live high but scale back living high and believe it or not a family can live on one decent income.It depends on where you live and home costs. In New England a middle class lifestyle(a 3 bedroom home in a nice neighborhood) *requires* that a family make 100k+ a year.
It’s called “Acting your wage” and living within your means.
As the video said, “It’s not the cost of living, it’s the cost of living high.”
You need to develop that thought a little further: why does being a member of the middle class entitle people to live where they want (in your case, New England)?
“It depends on where you live and home costs. In New England a middle class lifestyle(a 3 bedroom home in a nice neighborhood) *requires* that a family make 100k+ a year.”
Nonsense! Most people in the past were not raised in 3-bedroom homes in “nice neighborhood” (translate expensive and upscale, and probably brand new). You can raise a fine family in a small home in a shabby neighborhood on the national average family income of $35,000-$40,000.
Heck, my whole comfortable life has been lived with never even living NEAR anyone with a $100,000 income nor will I ever see that yet I have all I want and more than enough things, not to mention a fabulous hubby.