Comment on 54% of young Americans say food costs are the biggest strain on their finances
MrVilliam@lemmy.world 6 months agoIdk where your numbers are coming from. I know my rent is higher than average, but I’d like to know where you think you can find an apartment/house where rent is under $1k. My wife and I (DINK because everything’s expensive) have a 2 bed, 1 + 3/4 bath apartment for $3k. Utilities (no cable) add up to about $200. We pay for HBO and Paramount but are cancelling Paramount because it fucking sucks. Groceries are ballpark $50/week because we go to Aldi and don’t buy much processed crap. Giant would be easily over $100 for the same shit. We’re on Google Fi for about $60/month but we’re looking to switch to Mint because it’s about the same cost but for unlimited data.
Starbucks and McDonald’s are overpriced, but idk why you think it’s impossible to step into either without spending $50+. Maybe that was a voice to text mistake and you meant $15+. My wife and I literally the other day went to a pretty nice sit down restaurant right by the mall and had a delicious lunch plus an alcoholic drink apiece and the bill was about $32, $40 after tip. If somebody finds a way to spend $50 for just themselves at Starbucks or McDonald’s, then that’s obviously an outlier.
We can only really swing this exorbitant rent because our cars are already paid off and I make us over $100k. Rent is only gonna go up, so we’re actively looking to move, hopefully to own, but everything in our area under like $400k needs serious renovations. The housing market is fucked because of landlording. We will likely be buying a townhouse in a worse location and still pay like $2500/month.
snownyte@kbin.social 6 months ago
Wow, you're certainly on the offensive over something that is otherwise just examples and going on such a tirade over it. If you don't fit the example I've just described, why would you have to go out of your way to defend yourself over it?
Get off the internet for a while if you think you have it better than others.
MrVilliam@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Idk where you get off being so insulting and accusatory and then when I validate others’ concerns you think it’s fine to be rude and dismissive to me. Take your own advice and chill out. You engaged in a discussion. You don’t get to tell others to not participate when you’ve invited discussion through your own participation.
Generally speaking, people are being objectively correct when we say that costs are high and wages have stagnated. You’re right that budgets can be tightened for most people, but I have no reason to believe that people’s irresponsible spending habits are anywhere near as extreme as you are claiming, at least not outside of some rare outliers. And if I’m wrong about that, how does that change anything about how you are choosing to live your life? It really doesn’t. It kinda just sounds like you’re whining about welfare queens or whatever Tucker Carlson’s replacement on Fox is disingenuously getting people riled up about this week. If your finances are fine and others’ aren’t, then good for you. It’s possible that you’re luckier or better at planning or older than the people complaining. Your status doesn’t invalidate the experience of other people.