phoneymouse@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 11 months agoWhat salary do you think would make you happy?message-squaremessage-square175fedilinkarrow-up1100arrow-down16
arrow-up194arrow-down1message-squareWhat salary do you think would make you happy?phoneymouse@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 11 months agomessage-square175fedilink
minus-squareMeltrax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down3·11 months ago$140k won’t buy you a house in almost any even remotely popular city or its suburbs.
minus-squareBreadstickNinja@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·11 months ago$140k per year is enough to afford a mortgage on a $500k house. You’d have to make crazy money to buy a house outright on a year’s salary, so nobody evaluates it that way.
minus-squarefruitycoder@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoIs 500k a house to raise a family in or just a place to stay in?
minus-squareMeltrax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months agoIn Boston, where I live? $500k is an unheated garage.
minus-squaremodel_tar_gz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-211 months agoSan Diego checking in. $500k is a shack in someone’s backyard. Fuck I love it here but damn sometimes I really don’t. ok ok I exaggerate a little. But everything is crazy expensive here. Nice weather and beaches though. Get to surf every week. Can’t complain.
minus-squareMeltrax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months ago$500k houses don’t exist in popular cities.
minus-squareBreadstickNinja@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoThat’s why I live way the hell out in the suburbs
$140k won’t buy you a house in almost any even remotely popular city or its suburbs.
$140k per year is enough to afford a mortgage on a $500k house. You’d have to make crazy money to buy a house outright on a year’s salary, so nobody evaluates it that way.
Is 500k a house to raise a family in or just a place to stay in?
In Boston, where I live? $500k is an unheated garage.
San Diego checking in. $500k is a shack in someone’s backyard. Fuck I love it here but damn sometimes I really don’t.
ok ok I exaggerate a little. But everything is crazy expensive here. Nice weather and beaches though. Get to surf every week. Can’t complain.
$500k houses don’t exist in popular cities.
That’s why I live way the hell out in the suburbs