4 ms·
I make less than 20k a year. Somehow I am able to eat healthy food while living in one of the more expensive metro areas. I have no debt, and even have a little
by povertyworld 7y ago
I make less than 20k a year. Somehow I am able to eat healthy food while living in one of the more expensive metro areas. I have no debt, and even have a little extra at the end of the year to speculate with sometimes. Luck I suppose. It would still be cool to have a full time job, but we can't all have those, apparently.
- frankbreetz 7y agoI'd like to see a breakout of your budget. I know I couldn't do this. I live in the midwest and have trouble keeping spending around 20k post-tax. I have a wife and child through.
- x2f10 7y agoDo you have roommates? Do you own a car? Do you have a child?
- povertyworld 7y agoRoommates. No car. No kids.
- chrisseaton 7y agoWhen an American says they have roommates, do they literally mean they share a bedroom with another adult they're not romantically involved with? Or does 'room' mean the whole apartment?
- povertyworld 7y agoShared kitchen and bathroom. It's not ideal, but it's also not worth paying twice as much in rent for exclusive use of those two rooms that I only need for an hour a day or less.
- dgzl 7y agoTypically roommates have their own rooms. Sometimes that's not the case.
- antisthenes 7y agoNeither one. It could be a separate room with a shared kitchen.
- hacker_123 7y agoIn college, everyone used roommate for someone in the same bedroom and apartment-mate or suite-mate for someone in the same unit. For us, a suite lacked a kitchen and living room, but did share a bathroom. As others have said, roommate generally just means living in the same apartment. It's a weird term though, in that I wouldn't use "room" to refer to an entire apartment.