Elected Democrats and other critics call out the Trump administration for refusing to use contingency funding to pay for food stamps during the US government shutdown.
I remember when I made $2400 post tax a month. My rent was $750 (literally unheard of cheap for a one bedroom in the middle of nowheresville). Easy, except childcare was $950/month for my one toddler. So rent and childcare alone ate 70% of my income. I don’t want to talk about my electric bill because I was drowning, but had no debt, cold showers, but no debt, I’d say to my self on those cold winter mornings.
I had to steal from peter to pay paul, a lot. Mind you this was back pre pandemic, you could get a beater car for $500-$1000, and I did. Each car I had lasted about a year or two with repairs I could afford before they died.
I was late on my rent two months in a row, and my slumlord (you ever wake up next to a puddle?) told me, sarcastically, “well, maybe you should find a cheaper place to live”.
He knew damn well he owned the cheapest, shittiest apartment in the area. He was a cunt.
Living somewhere “undesirable” to save a buck is folly.
You have to move somewhere where you can afford to own property.
It might not be “good enough” for you, but it’s the only choice you have if you seriously can’t afford living in a city.
I remember when I made $2400 post tax a month. My rent was $750 (literally unheard of cheap for a one bedroom in the middle of nowheresville). Easy, except childcare was $950/month for my one toddler. So rent and childcare alone ate 70% of my income. I don’t want to talk about my electric bill because I was drowning, but had no debt, cold showers, but no debt, I’d say to my self on those cold winter mornings.
I had to steal from peter to pay paul, a lot. Mind you this was back pre pandemic, you could get a beater car for $500-$1000, and I did. Each car I had lasted about a year or two with repairs I could afford before they died.
I was late on my rent two months in a row, and my slumlord (you ever wake up next to a puddle?) told me, sarcastically, “well, maybe you should find a cheaper place to live”. He knew damn well he owned the cheapest, shittiest apartment in the area. He was a cunt.
Living somewhere “undesirable” to save a buck is folly.