My old person trait is that I think ‘ghosting’ is completely unacceptable and you owe the other person a face-to-face conversation.
My old person trait is that I think ‘ghosting’ is completely unacceptable and you owe the other person a face-to-face conversation.
My old person trait is thinking a family should be able to live in a house if one member has a stable job (maybe two people if both are at minimum wage).
You can, as long as that one member makes $200k+. It’s your fault you’re poor, weirdo
You can also live in a lower cost of living area and accomplish it.
Except the work availability doesn’t exist in low cost of living areas so you just trade monetary cost with time and accessibility cost.
You never heard of remote work eh? There are tons of jobs you can do from anywhere that you have reliable internet.
Also, there are other jobs that pay well enough to live comfortably in many areas close to rural areas. It’s quite simple to just drive a few miles to town for a work commute.
You could not persuade me to move into a city / metro area for double my current salary. Nothing beats having your own home and land for a price that you can easily afford.
The problem here is menial work. Some people need to build houses or produce furniture or repair cars etc. And that is often not well paid, destroys you physically, and you need to live where the work is or you need to pay for a car and extra insurance and extra taxes etc. etc. And then people do a full time job with actual societal merit, working in a field they want to work, but it’s not worth doing so. And that can’t stay this way. There is no remote job as a stone mason, Raoul. Not everyone can do that.
Yes, there is menial work available in many areas. Even if you live in a rural area, as millions of Americans currently do, who make a living and own homes.
The magical secret is CARS - you can get a car, and drive it to the job. Jobs definitely exist outside of big city metro areas, even if you don’t believe in them.
Necessities for children should be provided or paid for by government
Edit: not sure about this anymore