I don’t care how much money I had, I wouldn’t set foot in big democrat cities much less live there.
Wow, that’s pretty comfortable.
And you better have a good plan for your retirement when you are too old to work, First Step and the most crucial is to become DEBT FREE, yes that means paying off your mortgage. And do it as quickly as you can, regardless of how you have to live to achieve it. Once you do that, and if you can manage to not borrow money, you can retire pretty damned comfortably on $120K a year
The odds are if you’re in a city it will be controlled by the dims and thus living comfortably is impossible at least for we the sane.
Well some of the information is definitely misleading and some is inaccurate. 2 person households in Queens, Kings, and Richmond County NY (Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island) are listed in the calculator at $78k to $84k. Staten Island is listed as more expensive than Brooklyn, which is wrong. Also I would think most households would be hard pressed to get by at that income since housing alone would probably be north of $600k and most likely closer to $1 mil.
Case in point: my Mom and Dad grew up in South Boston (aka: "Southie) in the 1920s and 1930s. Back then it was the Irish Ghetto...poor Irish,many recent arrivals...struggling to get by. Then it became working class. But in the last 10 years or so it's become yuppified...where rents of $2,000 a month are considered a bargain and $2 million condos are a dime a dozen.
The insanity, heartache, stress, toil, chaos, and lower life expectancy for just a couple dollars an hour more than a rural job and rural living never ceases to a amaze me.
Is that couple dollars more actually worth the soul killing torture?
That means people can live on half their estimate. And why not be comfortable with that?