I'm amazed that, according to this, around 40% of American adults somehow make even less than I do. I'm broke as hell!
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I'm amazed that, according to this, around 40% of American adults somehow make even less than I do. I'm broke as hell!
I would say that if you aren't able to save, you are basically barely surviving. With the criminal austerity rules forced to this country since 10 years ago there is literally no way I can expect to ever collect a pension, so if I didn't have the prospect to sell some property in the future I'd be facing an utterly bleak end of life.
On the other hand, due to said criminal austerity forced rules, even just owning property means you have to pay a massive tax (regardless of income or no income from it).
On the other hand, due to said criminal austerity forced rules, even just owning property means you have to pay a massive tax (regardless of income or no income from it).
According to the table that means you make ~2k/month. If you're broke, then I hope it's not because of health costs, and I'd say otherwise you're doing something wrong (or you have too many children, but that partially overlaps ^^).
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Rent in Honolulu alone is over 50% of that monthly take. So I guess he made the poor choice of being alive in a money society.
Your income is affected greatly by where you live. You'll be wealthier earning $50k in Wyoming than $90k in San Francisco, etc. Cost of living varies a lot state-to-state, and cities are so much more expensive.
This is why people discussing salary online, especially competitively, is all but pointless. The only worse thing is probably the price of housing, since that varies even more intensely by hyperlocation.
You can technically live in Greece, with 1000 euro/month, but you won't be living in any good apartment. Cause anything actually decent (for one person) would cost at least 400/month if not a bit more (by "decent" I don't mean the best properties in the city, obviously; you will be lucky if you can see the sea from the balcony). Food will also set you back at least a couple hundred euros/month, and then there are the bills for electricity etc, and finally the tax (I mean the tax to the state, not the other taxes collected with anything you buy).
I would be generally ok with 1000/month, which is doable in the immediate future, but it's not like I ever buy anything other than food and cigarettes.
Saving at least 100-200 euros/month is also a very good idea in my case. Cause who knows how the market will fluctuate. Atm online seminars are still a nice gig, if you are reasonably good and with a serious company, but maybe it won't last far into the future.
That said, when either the main property will be sold, or I solve some millenium math problem, money will no longer be an issue, you plebs
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That's an example of how people can get misled by statistics. The mean income isn't the same as the median income.
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Maybe you should find your soulmate already, so you can join apartment and share the cost, joined income always more efficient than living alone, find a female version of Kyriakos, perhaps someone with a name like Kyriakitas or something.
Around 2k/month before taxes, yes, but it's more like $1700-$1800/month after (and it's been well lower than that in the past), and...
...yeah, this, Rent is nearly half my income and my living space is hardly luxurious or spacious. If I could afford to I'd find a better (but slightly more expensive) place to live.
The other half tends to mainly go to food, groceries, and yes, health costs, because this is America and even crappy insurance costs thousands of dollars a year.
I'm not totally broke, I've actually managed to save up a bit of money over the three years I've spent here by virtue of the fact that the University pays me more for working in the summer than they do the rest of the year and I haven't been spending that extra pay much, but I also just don't buy very many things (not like I'd have space to put things anywhere if I did buy them), don't own a car, don't take vacations much (I do go back to Seattle to visit family once or twice a year, but my parents will pay for that so I don't have to), and the small amount of money I do have saved up will eventually have to go towards paying off student loans.
TL;DR: Yeah, I make a bit less than $2k/month, and it's just barely enough to get by because living is expensive.
The female version is Kyriake, anyway. It is what the day of the Lord is called too :/
Actually, I once liked a girl with that name (well, its popular abbreviation) - but I was in the final year of elementary school, and in many ways a very different path.
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Dang, you might just missed your soulmate, Kyriake and Kyriakos, that would be epic!
Those are relatively common first names - Kyriake's abbreviation more so. I doubt any female uses the form "Kyriake", unless they are really into religion (quite rare here).
She probably did like me, but at that time I was not really going to think much of anyone.
Well, yes, but Kyriákos ≠ Kyriakós.
We could start by doing a search on Facebook-and/or-Instagram.
The fact that the monastic name differs in stressed vowel would be enough to allow Kyriakos to be a civic name just fine (as it does). Similar with Christos, a more common name than Kyriakos, and Christos stressed at the "o" (only used for Christ).
Kyriake has nothing of the sort, so usually becomes something bubbly like "Kiki" (with a heta in the end, obviously).
So much for Christos; he seemed to be an utter jerk anyway.
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And real income isn't the same as nominal income.
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What about the friendly income?
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I genuinely giggled at this.
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