Can you survive with 7,000 monthly income after taxes ?

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Is this a joke?

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Anonymous wrote:My rent is $5k alone.

There’s a sucker born every day.

Haha jealousy doesn’t suit you. Add up your mortgage, taxes, insurance, maintenance, etc. and I’m sure you are paying close to same amount. Difference is I have none of the headaches or responsibilities. Home ownership is overrated.

DP. I don’t think you’ll find many people jealous of your $5K monthly rent. Really.

Ok but share your monthly expenditure

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Anonymous wrote:You guys will survive just fine on $2k per month (the poverty line in this country). 40 million Americans are surviving on less than that

People living at the poverty line qualify for subsidized housing, though.

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Anonymous wrote:You guys will survive just fine on $2k per month (the poverty line in this country). 40 million Americans are surviving on less than that

Lol. My 22 year old’s rent in a 4 BR unit (so has three roommates) is $1300/month. It’s not fancy, either. Good luck surviving with a kid on $700/month after rent.

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Anonymous wrote:You guys will survive just fine on $2k per month (the poverty line in this country). 40 million Americans are surviving on less than that

Lol. My 22 year old’s rent in a 4 BR unit (so has three roommates) is $1300/month. It’s not fancy, either. Good luck surviving with a kid on $700/month after rent.

2k is for a family of 4. What is so funny about it?

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Anonymous wrote:You guys will survive just fine on $2k per month (the poverty line in this country). 40 million Americans are surviving on less than that

Lol. My 22 year old’s rent in a 4 BR unit (so has three roommates) is $1300/month. It’s not fancy, either. Good luck surviving with a kid on $700/month after rent.

2k is for a family of 4. What is so funny about it?

That they’re either living in subsidized housing that people with higher incomes do not qualify for or bouncing from place to place. They’re barely surviving and definitely not doing “fine.”

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Anonymous wrote:Our take home is 6k after maxing retirement savings. We have 2 kids but don’t need to pay for daycare. We have a tiny old house that we purchased 20 years ago and our mortgage is only $1300/month. We drive old cars and don’t have a car payment. I honestly don’t feel poor. We have all our needs and some of our wants met. There are so many people with so much less than us. People on these boards truly lack perspective.

100% agree. People here are seriously something else, but I guess that is DC crown. We live on combined $7000 after maxing retirement savings. We live comfortably, have 1 child. No debt. Drive older cars, no fancy restaurants, no too expensive vacations.

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Anonymous wrote:You guys will survive just fine on $2k per month (the poverty line in this country). 40 million Americans are surviving on less than that

Lol. My 22 year old’s rent in a 4 BR unit (so has three roommates) is $1300/month. It’s not fancy, either. Good luck surviving with a kid on $700/month after rent.

2k is for a family of 4. What is so funny about it?

That they’re either living in subsidized housing that people with higher incomes do not qualify for or bouncing from place to place. They’re barely surviving and definitely not doing “fine.”

So what is the problem? If that is true you will qualify for a subsidised housing as well.

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Anonymous wrote:You guys will survive just fine on $2k per month (the poverty line in this country). 40 million Americans are surviving on less than that

Lol. My 22 year old’s rent in a 4 BR unit (so has three roommates) is $1300/month. It’s not fancy, either. Good luck surviving with a kid on $700/month after rent.

2k is for a family of 4. What is so funny about it?

That they’re either living in subsidized housing that people with higher incomes do not qualify for or bouncing from place to place. They’re barely surviving and definitely not doing “fine.”

So what is the problem? If that is true you will qualify for a subsidised housing as well.

Nothing, but saying that people survive just fine on $2k/month is inaccurate.

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Anonymous wrote:You guys will survive just fine on $2k per month (the poverty line in this country). 40 million Americans are surviving on less than that

Lol. My 22 year old’s rent in a 4 BR unit (so has three roommates) is $1300/month. It’s not fancy, either. Good luck surviving with a kid on $700/month after rent.

2k is for a family of 4. What is so funny about it?

That they’re either living in subsidized housing that people with higher incomes do not qualify for or bouncing from place to place. They’re barely surviving and definitely not doing “fine.”

So what is the problem? If that is true you will qualify for a subsidised housing as well.

Nothing, but saying that people survive just fine on $2k/month is inaccurate.

Maybe so but it makes you sound like a princess with your whining about how hard it is for you to make ends meet on $7k per month when most Americans are nowhere near that number.

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Anonymous wrote:You guys will survive just fine on $2k per month (the poverty line in this country). 40 million Americans are surviving on less than that

Lol. My 22 year old’s rent in a 4 BR unit (so has three roommates) is $1300/month. It’s not fancy, either. Good luck surviving with a kid on $700/month after rent.

2k is for a family of 4. What is so funny about it?

That they’re either living in subsidized housing that people with higher incomes do not qualify for or bouncing from place to place. They’re barely surviving and definitely not doing “fine.”

So what is the problem? If that is true you will qualify for a subsidised housing as well.

Nothing, but saying that people survive just fine on $2k/month is inaccurate.

Maybe so but it makes you sound like a princess with your whining about how hard it is for you to make ends meet on $7k per month when most Americans are nowhere near that number.

Irrelevant due to differences in COL.

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Anonymous wrote:You guys will survive just fine on $2k per month (the poverty line in this country). 40 million Americans are surviving on less than that

People living at the poverty line qualify for subsidized housing, though.

Yeah, if they can actually get off the wait list.

Seriously, you people are pathetic. If you can't "survive" on $7K after taxes, there is something wrong with you.

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America is a place where it's awesome to be rich and awesome to be poor thanks to all the free government goodies. 7k per month is the zone where life really sucks. Too wealthy to get college tuition support, refundable tax credits and free breakfast and lunch and subsidized daycare for your kids, and too poor to eat decent food, live in a semi respectable house, and take decent vacations

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Anonymous wrote:America is a place where it's awesome to be rich and awesome to be poor thanks to all the free government goodies. 7k per month is the zone where life really sucks. Too wealthy to get college tuition support, refundable tax credits and free breakfast and lunch and subsidized daycare for your kids, and too poor to eat decent food, live in a semi respectable house, and take decent vacations

You don’t have to earn $7k dude. It is a free country. Be poor if you think it is so awesome. Also take a logic class.

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Anonymous wrote:America is a place where it's awesome to be rich and awesome to be poor thanks to all the free government goodies. 7k per month is the zone where life really sucks. Too wealthy to get college tuition support, refundable tax credits and free breakfast and lunch and subsidized daycare for your kids, and too poor to eat decent food, live in a semi respectable house, and take decent vacations

You don’t have to earn $7k dude. It is a free country. Be poor if you think it is so awesome. Also take a logic class.

I've seen a lot of people complain that the poor get too much stuff and it's too cushy, but I never see them quit their jobs. Being poor in this country SUCKS.