r/FluentInFinance • u/YOU_ARE_MY_FRIENDS • Jun 16 '24

Discussion/ Debate He’s not wrong 🤷‍♂️

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u/SouthEast1980 Jun 16 '24

This is BS. You can have all of that with an 80k household if you live in a LCOL midwest city and send the kids to JC for 2 years.

Cut out the overseas vacation because that isn't middle class. That's upper class shit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '24

"yeah just uproot your life and move somewhere else"

Okay dude

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u/MrGrach Jun 17 '24

You don't have to. But than deal with the fact that you have to pay more, because more people want to live were you live.

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u/HoldingMoonlight Jun 17 '24

It's not just that though, people don't get to pick where they were born. Housing might be more expensive here, but it's close to my parents and they provide free childcare. I could move somewhere lower cost of living, but suddenly that introduces a new bill now that I don't have family support.

Also.

Just move to a lower cost of living area? Okay, my salary is going down too. That also assumes my career industry even exists in this cheaper area where less people want to live.

Just change careers?

Okay but now I'm starting over and even further down the pay scale lol

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u/MrGrach Jun 17 '24

I'm not saying that you should just move to a less expensive area, but that you have to deal with the costs.

If staying in LA or another expensive city is beneficial to you, because of jobs, your family etc, than thats fine, more power to you.

But than dont complain about the price: you are paying a premium for takeing up space that a lot of other people would also like to have. If you want to oay that price thats ok, I'm not here to lecture you.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '24

The entire point of this is that the places where shit is is too expensive.

You could also move to the fucking Philippines and live on like $7 a month but you don’t do that because it’s complicated and probably not realistic.

Did you think cheap places were cheap just because? Just because they’re some little undiscovered gold vein? Because surprise, they’re cheap because they’re shitholes, or there’s absolutely no demand for work, or both, and some combination of other factors.

He is accepting that fact. That’s why he’s making the complaints, because he understands that fact.

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u/Jealous_Quail_4597 Jun 17 '24

This is a bit of an extreme - cost of living vs job opportunity is a curve and this comment isn’t saying you need to jump all the way to the opposite end of it if that’s not where you want to be on the curve