@resjudicata I just sold a house I had bought in 2010. It was four bedrooms in Orlando Florida, I had bought it for $103,000 and refinanced at 2.9%. My whole payment was $850. For a four bedroom house.
Not selling one of those and living it forever is how.
@resjudicata You need hire amounts per child. For a family of four you need like 100k to be considered middle class for a family of 4. Are both you and your wife making $33k a year?
@spiritualhuman Ohhh gotcha. I never thought about that. As I've always been WFH. But teens have expensive hobbies, vehicles, clothes are way more expensive, and each one eats as much as 3 adults.
@alwayscurious I just mean in comparison to teens which have vehicles, eat what seems like 9 meals a day, expensive hobbies (no toddler asks for a gaming PC and $100 to go to the movies/dinner), and adult prices everywhere you go
@pchris Depending on how old the teens are they can get jobs to offset some of those costs. And they tend to be pretty independent. Unlike small children who require you to be at their beck and call like the tiny tyrants they are.
@outofthedesert It's that exactly what the article is trying to calculate? What's the absolute minimum to be considered middle class with a dollar less being in poverty?
