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How much money do you have to a make to have comfortable living

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by rockbox, Jan 30, 2007.

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  1. KingCheetah

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    To really live right I think you need to make about 150k.
     
  2. DonnyMost

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    Money finds a way to spend itself.

    Discipline seperates those who "live comfortably" from those who struggle to get by... even the wealthy can have trouble "living comfortably"
     
  3. Yonkers

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    How would that be comfortable? Property taxes would be about $7000. Homeowner's insurance would be $1500. Gas would be about $1000. Electricity and other utilities would be about $4500. I'm probably missing more but that would still only leave you with $1000 for food.
     
  4. Deckard

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    Especially if you add kids, paying a large chunk of their college, medical bills, vacations, anniversary gifts... the list is endless.

    I look back fondly on my days living the hippie life, with my garage apartment by Hermann Park for $65 a month, bills paid. The giant attic fan that place had, and how I scarcely had to turn on the window unit to cool the place off. Except in August. August in Houston is a degree short of hell on earth, temperature wise.

    Thirty cent a gallon gas for the Vomit Comet, although I could find it for less. Making a huge batch of pinto beans for the ubiquitous "red beans and rice," and adding stuff to it to vary the taste. How good that brown rice smelled when I lifted off the lid and took a whiff. Shoving 2 twin beds together, and inviting a chick over for beans and rice. "That's a hell of a big bed!" Just for you, sweetheart. ;)

    Dollar pitchers of beer, if you knew where to go. Concert tickets for the top acts for 3 to 5 bucks. Taking a chick to see Hendrix for $10, for both tickets, and then ending up on the second row, center. Paying for a semester of classes for around 300 dollars. Maybe that was for two semesters. Can't remember. Good times.

    What the hell... good times! Worth saying again.
     
  5. chow_yun_fat

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    Well, I did say minus the property taxes. So that would be at least $4-$5k for food.

    If you think about it, whats really important in life. Good health and wife/kids or a bunch of materialistic junk?
     
  6. SwoLy-D

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    You mean like $1000.00 a year?

    I agree with DonnyMost. Except I like to spell the word "separates." :D

    In order to live comfortably, and I don't care if you live in the 5th Ward, the East End, or River Oaks, you need to make MORE than you spend. <- period

    In short, I think you need to earn ~ %120 of what you spend.
     
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    currently I am think 150K would make my family very happy, but you never know.
     
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    since i eventually want to have a family, and would like to make my future family's lives even better than what my parents provided... i'll say 500k+ a year.
     
  10. macalu

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    here's another question:

    would you rather make $70,000/year and live where everyone else makes $80,000 or make $60,000/year and live where everyone makes $50,000/year?
     
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    I think that's a question that could easily find it's way to D&D! :)
     
  12. mateo

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    My answer to this question changed dramatically when I moved to NYC.
     
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    I make 6,000 dollars a year right now, working part time. That is not good.


    After I get through with all the schooling I plan on going through (if I make it that far), I project to earn anywhere from 80 to 150k a year. I think I could get by on 80 easily.


    I think 50 a year would do me. 100 would be really fomfotable for my girlfriend and I, especially in this town, I would say.
     
  14. LonghornFan

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    I wish I still got an allowance, gas card and a free car from my parents. That was pretty sweet.
     
  15. Franchise3

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    I'm shooting for low-to-mid six-figures. I'll probably also be single well into my thirties and I'm unsure about having kids. Yeah, I'm a greedy b*stard, but I'll also have more than a handful of student loans to pay off.
     
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    I can live comfortably on 50, but I would be alot happier making 25 and working half as much.
     
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    The answer depends on where I live.

    $100,000 in Houston? Live like a king, baby.
    $100,000 in New York? Pass me the ramen noodles.

    I wish my wife understood this concept. (She wants to move back to the NE.)
     
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    Well, if you're gonna live in a backwoods town in the northeast, a 100,000 will have you living like a king and then some! The town I live in, 100,000 would basically mean you're filthy rich. :p
     
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    Beautifully phrased, though sad in a way. I like it.
     
  20. FrontRowJoe

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    About $3.2 million a year.

    Sincerely,

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