$100 an hour isn’t much anymore

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Someone I know is making $100 an hour and still getting by paycheck to paycheck, do we need a 500k a month to be okay? Not be poor ?

If you want to life in a decent family home in a safe, close-in area, you most definitely need to make more than $100/hour (or $200k/year). For kids, savings, home, $500k is a minimum. sorry, that's just a fact when barely livable homes cost over $1m and college costs a fortune.

It is a fact when you are an idiot.

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Median income in DCUMland is ~$111K/year. That means 50% in area live on less than that. Dig deeper and you will find (I'm guessing) another 25% make between 111-200K.

LOL - you are clueless. I live in Bethesda and I can tell you you couldn't even scrape by on $111k/year here unless you're living in an apartment building. You need several hundred thousand a year - like 500k! - to live a normal, basic "American dream" lifestyle here.

Your idea of the American dream is stiflingly boring. The definition of the American dream is a house with a yard, two cars, vacations, 2 kids. Not everyone wants that. And for sure not everyone wants to live in Bethesda.

[Anonymous]

Back in 2013 I was making $200 an hour and I felt rich.

In 2023 I only make $100 an hour and I am dumpster diving