Exactly! Utter bullshyt...The cost of living keeps going up and wages remain stagnant. Yet they wanna tell us we aren't saving enough
Making $40k before taxes in South Florida and a respectable apartment is around $1200/month.
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Making $40k before taxes in South Florida and a respectable apartment is around $1200/month.
Pretty much every other building I looked at that was cheaper had a serious rat and or roach problem and also didn't have a garage for my car and was far away from the PATH train. People get stabbed for their cars in Jersey I wasn't risking it and I wasn't trying to live with rats and roaches or walk far and get robbed when I get home from work. I'm pretty much paying for safety.You paying 1400 to live in Newark?! Newark?!!
Must be the proximity to NYC that keeps you there.
But i may just chalk it up once my lease is up in a few months and move to Irvington because the rent should at most be $1,000 with utilities included. I'm not staying eastcoast though I am definitley going back to Chicago when my time here is done. There's no way anyone over here can save any money, but this is the GOAT learning experience for me, I'm glad I'm seeing it first hand for a little bit. The 1% really pulled it off spectacularly. 
The landlords were really looking at me with a straight face when I was apartment hunting months ago, saying the rent was $1,800+ utilities to live in a small ass 1'bedroom in Teachers Village in downtown Newark and as soon as I walk out the front door it's bodegas with old dudes selling dusty fake hats and crackheads drinking out of brown liquor store bags in front of abandoned buildings. Talking about "the area is gentrifying" 
It ain't gentrified yet, why the rent so high.
It's just making me appreciate the Chi more and more every day.
I hear where they coming from but this article is silly without addressing the huge income gap that has spread over the last 30 plus years not to mention people at the bottom/middle class arent even getting adjustments for inflation each year 
Pretty much every other building I looked at that was cheaper had a serious rat and or roach problem and also didn't have a garage for my car and was far away from the PATH train. People get stabbed for their cars in Jersey I wasn't risking it and I wasn't trying to live with rats and roaches or walk far and get robbed when I get home from work. I'm pretty much paying for safety.
It ain't gentrified yet, why the rent so high.
It's just making me appreciate the Chi more and more every day.
These greedy landlords won't stop till a Depression comes in and people can't afford it anymore. Once that bubble burst, it will be a reynolds wrap for the whole economy.
He chooses not to own a car..Age 16 bought a car for $1700, still have it 3 years later
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by 35........................... nikka please
i'll be making 65k... you want me to have 130k in savings already? how the hell was i supposed to make it to that job, have a family, home, car, life.... and still manage to save 130k that i don't need, that can just chill and relax.. lifestyle expenses ain't 75%... motherfukking rent, gas and bills is 75% and i'm not balling or ODing in any category
Yall spend a bunch bullshyt though...DONT FRONT.
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Hungerpain
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shyt is a joke breh.there is nothing in New Jersey worth $1,400 every month. Nothing! I'm here for work for a year and a half and I already give the northeast two thumbs down. Especially Jersey.
I don't know how people do it. I walk down the street in Newark and drive thru Irvington and The Oranges and it's all worse than any ghetto in Chicago and the people and buildings look even more dilapidated. How do you live in the same neighborhood as me if I'm clearing six figures and my rent is astronomical but you bummed out?
Bossman real talk my apartment is 740 sqft with a garage space, I pay the electric bill and that's it. $1,400 every month.I'm blessed to earn good money and to be single so I can still save,but what if I was a regular guy making $40,000? Forget saving like the article said, I'd be homeless.
nikkas sleep on how grimey,segregated,and corrupted Jersey is.
Be happy you just sliding threw this bytch on some work shyt and didn't have to grow up here.
shyt turns decent nikkas into real life savages and deviants word to the legend himself @skeetsinternal
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BrokePhiBroke
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Let's talk about taxes that's eating my damn check alive!
Every pay period I'm mad ass hell cause they hitting my shyt like they going to war.
Plus high ass rent and other necessities.
Every pay period I'm mad ass hell cause they hitting my shyt like they going to war.
Plus high ass rent and other necessities.
The cost of living keeps going up and wages remain stagnant. Yet they wanna tell us we aren't saving enough
Lawd, don't get in a accident, band-aids $50 in the hospital
Daycare--cuz both ya'll gotta work--$200 a week, minimum
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Tell the employers and greedy owners to put PRICE CAPS so that people pay no more than 25% of their paychecks on bills AFTER TAXES.
Why are people spending more than 70% of their overtaxed checks on basic necessities and rent is going up beyond inflation levels?
People are spending a lot more than they used to bruh...
And I'm not saying theres not a problem with wage growth stagnation
