"living wage" is always a strange term to me, it's a very wheezily term - just say how much it is. Just for reference, here is the "calculator" (I can't valida

"living wage" is always a strange term to me, it's a very wheezily term - just say how much it is. Just for reference, here is the "calculator" (I can't validate it's reasonable): https://livingwage.mit.edu/metros/35620 https://livingwage.mit.edu/metros/35620 To put it in perspective, everyone is dramatically above the poverty line here. Living wage is >2x the poverty line. You can get food, clothes, entertainment, etc. in a "living wage". To me, if this is true, people should leave. Move where you get more bang-for-your-buck. As that happens, the wages will be forced to increase and prices will come down. Fundamentally, if people are fine living in New York with those wages, who are we to stop them? If they want to move to have a higher quality of life in some suburb, that's fine (quality of life being: more stuff, cheaper, not in a smelly city, more disposable income)