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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
Do you guys know how much housing and childcare cost around here?

I'm the person who posted in the furlough thread about feeling stupid for. buying 3 pieces of furniture. For context, my living room has had literally only seating i have scavenged from the curb for free for the last 2.5 years. Finally I got tired of living off other people's trash and spent $300 on a used coffee table and 2 chairs. Replacing the trash couch is still too expensive, that will wait. And i still don't have curtains, just cheap blinds.

Meanwhile, I have spent $1500/month on day care during this period, and until I got a federal job this spring i was spending $900/month for family health insurance. But you really think it's consumerism that holds people back from saving? How deeply out of touch and moralistic.

YES!!! I couldn't agree more. It is the BASIC necessities that eat up our income: rent or mortgages, health care costs (mine is $1500/mo), child care, higher education, and retirement savings.

Just think: a generation ago, when baby boomers were young professionals, [b]companies PAID for employee retirement. they PAID for health care. [/b]rent/mortgages were in-line with incomes.

Gas, clothes and food were more expensive but those were things you could control.[/quote]

I know plenty of boomers who don't have pensions paid for by companies (granted I am a 60 year old boomer so a "younger" boomer).  I also think you have to realize that health care was much more basic back then.  There was no physical therapy for every sprain, no MRIs, no chemotherapy, etc., etc.  The range of therapies that exist now is incredible (and great FWIW), but expensive. [/quote]

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