nosuchreality said:
Two destination vacations, one staycation, weekly date night and $500/month entertainment on top of fully funding a 529, 401K, the mortgage on $1.8m home, Toyota Highlander car payment and $500 a week on food all while handing the most expensive toddler years.
What a joke. More like $350K to have your cake and eat it too.
100% agree. That article is shit clickbait. It's a shit postulation using shit numbers and shit reasoning to support it. The premise of the article is you need to make $350k a year in the coastal areas because the COLA is so high. Granted, housing and child care cost more, but the rest of it is ridiculous.
"Oh, poor us, we live on the coast, and we're middle class, so we take 3 vacations a year."
"Oh, poor us, we live on the coast, and we're middle class, so we put $38k a year into our retirement funds."
"Oh, poor us, we live on the coast, and we're middle class, so we spend $26k a year just to feed ourselves."
"Oh, poor us, we live on the coast, and we're middle class, so we put $12k a year toward our kids' college funds."
"Oh, poor us, we live on the coast, and we're middle class, so we spend $5k a year on clothes from The Gap."
Geez, I don't think I've spent $5k on clothes over my entire life. And real middle class people, the ones making the actual median wages in this country, can't afford those things. Living on the coast doesn't make someone more deserving of being able to do any of those things. What, kids in flyover states don't deserve the vacations, the eating out or to go to the same colleges as coastal kids? It all costs the same no matter where you live. Anyone who agrees with that crap is out of touch.