To live where I work, and have a comfortable life I would need to earn 5x my current hourly income, working full time.
About $240,000 /year at $115 /hour.
Maybe I did the math wrong, or approximated my costs wrong.
But houses are about $500,000 , & rents are about $3,000 to $3,500
Monthly groceries is about $400 to $600.
Car insurance is about $200 / month.
Gas is about $100 / month.
Phone is about $80 / month.
Am I crazy, or stupid?
This doesn’t include luxuries, just the basic necessities.
I can try to fine tune this by finding cheaper towns nearby, or by finding cheaper living which I didn’t do in detail yet.
I need to look at everything is detail more later on.
Insane How much energy we have to put out just to sleep over a roof
To be fair I might have miscalculated but I’m not sure.
I’ll re-run the numbers later on tonight, and figure out the more accurate costs.
To me everything there is kinda what i would say im paying as well. Pretty much
I did do the numbers wrong.
Here's a more accurate / updated result.
Yeah climbing on top of the apartment building every night is a massive pain.
Seems you may be a little low on the groceries but I don’t know your location. Those numbers generally comport with my location otherwise.
I am in California, and I'm accounting for only myself, not a family, or anything.
Ok, I re-ran the numbers.
The Annual Cost to Live where I work is about $48,230.16 / Year.
Mind you this doesn't include variable costs like gas, water, electricity, entertainment, or any other adult bills people have to pay.
(Medical Coverage is Covered by my employer).
I think I accidentally did monthly expenses, and multipled them by 52 instead of 12 💀.
I don't where I got silly but I did.
