Shit. I’m not even looking for a two bedroom. I want a studio for less than $1400.
They don’t talk about one bedrooms in these statistics because it’s all based on assuming you’re going to fuck and make babies for God Economy.
the statistic for one bedrooms is almost as bad. In 93% of US counties, you can’t afford a one bedroom on a minimum wage salary
Oh, I’m aware, it just always sticks in my craw as a person without kids how the subject is represented.
Find a way to move out of major city centers
Outside of city centers in my state it’s almost 20% less per hour. Sure, the housing is cheaper, but other goods cost the same. That’s 20% less money to spend on groceries, cell phone bill, gas, car payment, etc. Also, moving out of the city, I would have to get a car again to get anywhere, instead of using the bus. It doesn’t always make sense to just drop everything and move to the burbs.
Yeah, it always depends on your field, there’s also big cities that are cheaper than others, where I’m at housing in the fifth city by population is at least 50% cheaper than in the first city and salaries aren’t that different.
this isn’t about cities. there’s not a single US state where you can afford a two bedroom on a full time minimum wage salary. And for 93% of US counties, you can’t afford a one bedroom
Money, services, and better job quality are all found in cities. Rural is physical labor and bad pay. It usually also smells like either a farm or chemicals for those rural jobs too.
Cities are where civilization grows.
Spoken like someone who never got out of the city they live in.
You realise that there’s many steps between major city centers and bum fuck nowhere, right?
In a town of around 10k you’ll have everything you need to spend your whole life there if you want.
People like you act so smug towards the people who bring food to your table, extract the minerals necessary for you to have access to the internet, cut the wood used to build the furniture you’ve got… Cities don’t exist without rural areas, rural areas continue sustaining themselves without cities.
May the capitalists never gain access to the multiverse.
If anyone can find a way to hoard and separate infinite resources from infinite people, it’s them.
Honestly that’s why I’m rooting against successful space colonization. The rest of the universe doesn’t need our greed disease to spread.
A violent revolution is unthinkable until the hour it is inevitable.
I think you misspelled studio apartment without any flat mates…
that’s just the statistic, but yeah. Can’t afford that either. But people will tell you to “just move somewhere affordable” when the point is there isn’t a single place in the US where you can afford a two-bed apartment on minimum wage – which should be a wage you can live on
Yes someplace affordable is what was called a Hoover house about a century ago, that is a cardboard house or stacks of used paint cans and dreams of a communist revolution.
Hoover and his industrialist buddies were livid over FDR’s New Deal, not realizing it was a stopgap to let capitalism get its shit together.
I work a full time job well above minimum wage and still can’t afford a 2 bedroom lol
same. the minimum wage should be a living wage but we’re nowhere close
Two bedroom?
Socialists and their poor mind 😆🤑
