this isn’t about cities. there’s not a single US state where you can afford a two bedroom on a full time minimum wage salary. And for 93% of US counties, you can’t afford a one bedroom
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Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 5 months agoFind a way to move out of major city centers
any_memes_necessary@lemmy.world 5 months ago
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Money, services, and better job quality are all found in cities. Rural is physical labor and bad pay. It usually also smells like either a farm or chemicals for those rural jobs too.
Cities are where civilization grows.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Spoken like someone who never got out of the city they live in.
You realise that there’s many steps between major city centers and bum fuck nowhere, right?
In a town of around 10k you’ll have everything you need to spend your whole life there if you want.
People like you act so smug towards the people who bring food to your table, extract the minerals necessary for you to have access to the internet, cut the wood used to build the furniture you’ve got… Cities don’t exist without rural areas, rural areas continue sustaining themselves without cities.
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Outside of city centers in my state it’s almost 20% less per hour. Sure, the housing is cheaper, but other goods cost the same. That’s 20% less money to spend on groceries, cell phone bill, gas, car payment, etc. Also, moving out of the city, I would have to get a car again to get anywhere, instead of using the bus. It doesn’t always make sense to just drop everything and move to the burbs.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Yeah, it always depends on your field, there’s also big cities that are cheaper than others, where I’m at housing in the fifth city by population is at least 50% cheaper than in the first city and salaries aren’t that different.