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What is gravity? (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can basically half American salary numbers because we have to pay for a lot of stuff that Europeans usually don't need to pay for. $57k in America is struggling if you live in a city. Anything below $40k is one car repair away from being financially ruined.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Anything below $40k is one car repair away from being financially ruined.

You guys have cars while being poor? Sorry but seems stupid to me

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Welcome to our country that has utterly failed to invest in public transit outside of a few major cities, such that we must be dependent on cars. Love it here. amerikkka

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow your country really does hate its people huh

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Very much so.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We don't have public transit, so we need cars... It's part of what makes us poor...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Death to America

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

You are correct. We are forced to have them though. There's no mass transit and everything is two hours away on foot. Most new cars now are $40k unless you get like a base Sentra but the median income is only $60k.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What are we considering in vs out of city? Does in city mean just downtown, within city limits, within metro area? And what are we considering a city - 300k population?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Less than 30 minute commute, if it's less than that the price of housing goes up ~20% for each 5 minutes you would save.