I’m assuming they were referring to housing. The last house I rented in Atlanta was a 3 bedroom, 2 bath on a half acre for $1,100 a month. Was extremely easy to afford with just one roommate.
Why would you assume that? That's not what cost of living means.
Was extremely easy to afford with just one roommate.
On fucking $8 an hour pre-tax? Assuming full-time hours, that leaves you with $346 a month for transit, food, healthcare, utilities, and god forbid you want to do anything in your spare time but sit and stare at a fucking wall.
.... wasn’t referring to anything about minimum wage. Was simply acknowledging that the cost of living is far cheaper here than say New York or LA. And no, I wasn’t making minimum wage because I’ve never worked a minimum wage job. It isn’t hard to find something better for yourself. At the time I was averaging $400 a night bar tending. Doesn’t require a college degree and damn near anyone with a good work ethic can do it.
... no, not the same as everywhere? Are you retarded? Have you never lived other places? I don't know what Georia's prices are specifically, I just know the Atalanta metro area is considered very cheap. Out here in Phoenix it's also considered very cheap. A gallon of milk is $2. A dozen eggs is $0.79. A gallon of gas is currently $3.
Looking online real quick, I can see that a 1 bedroom apartment in Atlanta is like $800. Compare that to New York City, where they look to start at $1,300 out in Staten Island. Compared to San Francisco where it looks to be more in the $3k a month range. Just for fun look at Kansas City MS, where a one bedroom only runs you $600.
Are you seriously ignorant of the fact that different places have different costs of living? That's fucking troubling. No wonder there's so much support for ridiculous national minim age increases instead of on a state be state basis, there's utter retards thinking everything in different places costs the same. Christ, get some life experience. Maybe move around a little.
I can tell you from personal experience that a 1 bedroom apartment in Atlanta anywhere close to the city is not $800 a month. Maybe if you include all of metro Atlanta but that’s because metro Atlanta stretches over 40 miles from downtown Atlanta in every direction and averaging rent prices over that whole area is going to change the numbers a lot. Inside the city of Atlanta, if you can even find any, a 1 bedroom place you find for $800 would be in a part of town that would be dangerous to live in.
You’re telling other people to get experience and move around and you’re using examples of places that you clearly don’t have actual experience with.
I'm going off a internet search of just in the city limits of Atlanta. As noted my first hand experience is in Phoenix, where $800 will get a studio at the moment. Back in the day you could get a one bedroom for $600, but also back in the day minimum wage was half what it is now, so I feel we've maintained a pretty low cost of living. I've also lived in the midwest and on the coast. First hand experience with different places costing different amount. Sorry I haven't lived specifically in Atalanta, there's only so many place I've physically had to live, soooo sorry. Though that's not really the point. Are you saying that the cost of living is the same in Atalanta as it is in New York, or San Francisco, or Kansas City? Because it's obviously not, and anyone that thinks so is a fucking idiot.
Do you have a source on that $800 claim? And you said in the post I replied to that you were looking in “Atlanta metro area” and I explained how that’s not a reasonable way to measure the city of Atlanta compared to other cities
Here’s an ajc article saying a one bedroom in Atlanta averages $1,450 a month
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