My net income is between 40,000 and 60,000 depending on how hard I want to work in a given year. It's a shame that I have so much business expenses or it would be conciderably more.
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About 24k per year. My wife does not work. Trailer is paid for. We have more than just the food and raiment Yeshua promised so we count ourselves blessed.
Do your stats for the national average incorporate all those teens and college-age kids that are technically earning money, but are doing so part time and still living at home?
How about all the part-timers at Wal*Mart?
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Despite today's rising cost of living, it remains popular.
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Do your stats for the national average incorporate all those teens and college-age kids that are technically earning money, but are doing so part time and still living at home?
How about all the part-timers at Wal*Mart?
I think it was fulltime only. I am sure there are some walmart workers still living with parents in the mix, but also actors and professional sports figures - So that would help balance the numbers
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Actually the suburb I live in has a higher cost of housing than the city of Indianapolis. My house wouldn't be worth maybe half of what it is if it were sitting in downtown Indy instead of downtown suburb.
My mortgage is 440 and that includes loan, taxes and insurance. I couldn't rent a home or apartment here with the sq footage that I have for under $800a month.
My utilities run about $100 for electric/water/sewer Gas heating is another story... but we get it done.
Car payment is $229 because the interest is low... my insurance is low on that car...
I have 3 cell phones, home phone, DSL, cable television... pretty average bills for a household of 4... I still manage to feed us all and we go out to eat at least... the very minimum of twice a week... I rarely cook on the weekend.
I guess Midwest living is pretty good huh? I wouldn't live in California unless you paid me to.
Actually the suburb I live in has a higher cost of housing than the city of Indianapolis. My house wouldn't be worth maybe half of what it is if it were sitting in downtown Indy instead of downtown suburb.
My mortgage is 440 and that includes loan, taxes and insurance. I couldn't rent a home or apartment here with the sq footage that I have for under $800a month.
My utilities run about $100 for electric/water/sewer Gas heating is another story... but we get it done.
Car payment is $229 because the interest is low... my insurance is low on that car...
I have 3 cell phones, home phone, DSL, cable television... pretty average bills for a household of 4... I still manage to feed us all and we go out to eat at least... the very minimum of twice a week... I rarely cook on the weekend.
I guess Midwest living is pretty good huh? I wouldn't live in California unless you paid me to.
Gas is killing us here in Cali! Average right now is between 3.53 (ARCO) -3.79 (Chevron) for REGULAR.
Oh, well...I just answered according to what Jeff makes--I stay at home.
He makes well above average, but he has two jobs--his fulltime, salaried position, and then his web business on the side. The two of them together keep us well-maintained. When he was out of a job, the web business brought in enough to sustain us, but not as comfortably as we'd like.
Now that he has a full time job again, it allows us to pay bills, and put money in savings, buy [big item] things we need, buy extras, redo the house, etc.
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"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
Actually the suburb I live in has a higher cost of housing than the city of Indianapolis. My house wouldn't be worth maybe half of what it is if it were sitting in downtown Indy instead of downtown suburb.
My mortgage is 440 and that includes loan, taxes and insurance. I couldn't rent a home or apartment here with the sq footage that I have for under $800a month.
My utilities run about $100 for electric/water/sewer Gas heating is another story... but we get it done.
Car payment is $229 because the interest is low... my insurance is low on that car...
I have 3 cell phones, home phone, DSL, cable television... pretty average bills for a household of 4... I still manage to feed us all and we go out to eat at least... the very minimum of twice a week... I rarely cook on the weekend.
I guess Midwest living is pretty good huh? I wouldn't live in California unless you paid me to.
Goodness, FB, I don't know how you do it. Jeff and I lived on pennies when we were first married, but with kids in the house--they're like a money funnel. I do everything I can to be frugal. I shop consignment, we don't eat out very much, etc.
One thing is...we don't use any credit cards. So when we do buy something, we pay cash rather than using credit to pay it off. I think that sometimes presents the illusion that we aren't as "well off" as we are, because we accumulate things a little more slowly than those who just pile it all on a credit card and bring it home. In the long run, of course, it works out better.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
Actually the suburb I live in has a higher cost of housing than the city of Indianapolis. My house wouldn't be worth maybe half of what it is if it were sitting in downtown Indy instead of downtown suburb.
My mortgage is 440 and that includes loan, taxes and insurance. I couldn't rent a home or apartment here with the sq footage that I have for under $800a month.
My utilities run about $100 for electric/water/sewer Gas heating is another story... but we get it done.
Car payment is $229 because the interest is low... my insurance is low on that car...
I have 3 cell phones, home phone, DSL, cable television... pretty average bills for a household of 4... I still manage to feed us all and we go out to eat at least... the very minimum of twice a week... I rarely cook on the weekend.
I guess Midwest living is pretty good huh? I wouldn't live in California unless you paid me to.
One of the pleasant surprises I found in Omaha is that that housing prices are around 12% below the national average. I bought a new home here for much less than I could have purchased the same home in Michigan.
However, the caveat is the taxes are much higher.
Reason being, there are 1.7 million people in Nebraska, and between Omaha and Lincoln, there are nearly 1.1 million of them, lol.
So, the two cities are pretty much carrying the taxes for the entire state.
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