Yeah I mean, I’m just accounting for myself I guess. Once I get married and have kids (hopefully that all happens for me), the math changes a lot. But also keep in mind that my plan includes having my home completely paid off, so that takes away a huge expense.
You could be an ex-pat nomad for way less than 60k/year even as a couple.
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If I walked through an airport looking like that, I would think I was either doing something very wrong or that I’m in a dream.
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+1. It’s not impossible but it’s definitely not an easy task.
You would have to live in a low cost of living area and be very nitty about expenses.
Yea, this is me. So much good value out there! No way I’d ever retire in the States.
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Our plan as well. Work until 50 and save as much as possible and then just travel visa nomad 10 months a year while still having a paid off home base in the states to use to see family or whatever.
So many places we have been are better in almost every way and cheaper also. Portugal and Colombia stand out for us as two places for us that are awesome with amazing people, food and nightlife while still being very inexpensive.
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Almost half the households in the country survive on less than that.
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This is fair, but it’s also possible she had to work to put food on the table that day. She shouldn’t be in a scenario where she had to had to face this choice, which is why I think it’s predominantly a failure in the part of the government. She definitely shares blame too, though.
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It’s kind of wild from a CDN perspective, dealers here start at like $20/hour, people don’t tip that much. But, for home games obviously dealers are tipped and in the bigger home games can make $1k/night for a longer game\
Locally we’re into phase 2 now. 50 people allowed for outdoor stuff, 25 indoors. Played golf two days ago, Soccer today. Over half of small businesses were open as of Thursday, with more coming this weekend.
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It’s possible I think my current haircut looks better than it does so you may be right; and
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Are you sure you are not misunderstanding something about that tax? That doesn’t sound right. I suppose it’s possible, but I just find it unlikely that there is a proposal for a flat tax on any source of business income no matter how small.
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This is true. I live in NY so grain of salt I guess, but I don’t know anyone who’s not taking it seriously.
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Well, as of yesterday dive bars, inside the actual bar, are back in business in San Diego. Personally, as much as I love diving, I don’t care to surf the second wave, and I’ll be staying out of the drink for the indefinite future.
What has really amazed me is the CA ABC, infamously the pickiest of the pickiest of alcohol regulators, has basically thrown out their own damn rule book… anything goes to keep the booze flowing.
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I think we’ll get some more Donny Dollars in September or October so he can win votes.
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I’m going to dig into it more before I vote, I’m basing it off of the quotes from the politician. Maybe it phases in, or something.
How many of the half are retired and done supporting a family and have a paid off house and their medical expenses for the most part covered? And then a bunch more are likely single person households compromised of a relatively young person in an apartment. Then how many of the rest are living a lifestyle acceptable to most of us in an area we might want to live in?
“Over my dead body.” - Lindsey “I’ve Perpetually Got the Vapors” Graham
I know what you meant. But when people say “You can barely survive on X” it comes across as indifferent to the tens of millions who are forced to survive on significantly less than X, while also implying their existence is somehow unimaginable. It’s a variation of the “middle” class definition where what’s considered barely acceptable gets set to a level 1/3rd of the population has no hope of ever achieving.
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Well that’s certainly not my intention to come across like that. For a good chunk of my adult life after leaving my parents house at 17 y/o I lived below the median, sometimes well below, and was mostly perfectly happy.
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