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Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary
At full time hours all year long that's a $30,000/year or $2,500/month before taxes job. But rent is at least $1,200/month in my area right now with two bedroom homes going for more than $2,000/month.
I'm not quite sure how that would work out for a +$500,000 house monthly though, but it's probably not that much cheaper. And getting a house less than that is hard to do in my area.
But I think we could live off $1,000/month for food and everything else besides rent/mortgage if we had to. But with some rentals requiring you make at least 3.5 times the rental amount that may not happen with a job like that.
The thing is that a lot of places here are in great need of workers since so many workers are leaving due to the living costs. But they don't or can't pay according to what a living wage should be. Yes, los of places hiring at $15/hour. I've been begged to work as a commercial driver, but they wanted to pay me $15/hour. That's not going to happen with the housing costs the way they are.
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In my hometown Amazon or Walmart pays $15 an hour and a 3 bedroom / 2 bath brick house sells for $100K (Much less if you want to live in a bad part of town)
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3...67236339_zpid/
Or you can live a few miles outside of town in the township among the cornfields for a little bit more ($125K)
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1...67288598_zpid/
EDIT: Or if you are really fancy you can live with the rich folks over in Saginaw Township for $145K
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2...67280956_zpid/