• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Depends where and how you live. My rent is $800 a month, but some mortgages are thousands of dollars.

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        18 hours ago

        Ikr, just saw an ad for a nearby apartment wanting 1,200$ a month for a studio apartment… in Nebraska

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          15 hours ago

          You pay $500 less than the average American for rent. I think you may be lacking the perspective necessary to engage productively with this topic.

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            My rent is $500 less than whatever metric you’re using, but our local ecconomy is also lowers than yours.

            Average wage here is 10/hr for a factory job. I’ve heard some places like Seattle make $20/hr just working at starbucks.

            And keep in mind my rent is basically 1 room.

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              So, I happen to have friends that live in Lakewood, and from the sound of it, you just might live in a different Lakewood than them. Lakewood is economically similar to the majority of other suburbs of the major Ohio cities, and seeing as I also live in one of those suburbs, I can assure you that you’re lucky to be paying what you’re paying in rent, even for a studio apartment.

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              10 hours ago

              The problem with lying about things on the internet is that people can check.

              https://www.talent.com/salary?job=&location=lakewood%2C+oh

              https://www.apartments.com/rent-market-trends/lakewood-oh/

              To sum up: You are paying less than the average rent in a city where the average rent is lower than 40% of the rest of the country and lying about the average wage in order to make it look like this is normal.

              It took a very small amount of my time to look this up.

              Be better.

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      18 hours ago

      Again, the “how you live” thing again, in your opinion, what is the “correct” way to live?