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PoindexterOglethorpe

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21. I haven't seen that thread yet, but I'm not surpised.

Reply to jimfields33 (Reply #20)

Wed Dec 9, 2020, 07:16 PM

Dec 2020

Although the people who lost their jobs in the spring, whose unemployment benefits have run out, and with no new stimulus check in the offing, they are in serious trouble.

I had several wonderful trips planned before everything shut down. Someday I hope to do at least some of them. What I will do, whenever I can resume traveling, is upgrade the whole experience. First class air fare. A better room in a better hotel. Stuff like that.

I'm 72, and while I'm in excellent health and hope to remain so for at least the next twenty years, the truth is that at some point in the relatively near future I will need to cut back or stop solo travel altogether. So I may as well do it in style while I still can.

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Why Households Need To Earn $300,000 A Year To Live A Middle Class Lifestyle Today [View all] ansible Dec 2020 OP

Growing regional hub cities have been getting rapidly more expensive empedocles Dec 2020 #1

However, the pay in non-coastal cities is not nearly as high as in the coastal ones. Yavin4 Dec 2020 #2

I live on about 15K a year and I do fine. Kaleva Dec 2020 #3

The hard part of a financial life is those surprises jimfields33 Dec 2020 #9

It's not a surprise -- it comes out of the depreciation account that you continually pay into Klaralven Dec 2020 #10

When one is low income, there are many organizations that offer asisstance. Kaleva Dec 2020 #14

That is wonderful. I'm glad they have organizations that provide things like that jimfields33 Dec 2020 #19

As I mentioned in another post, low income are often elegible for assistance. Kaleva Dec 2020 #15

I live very comfortably -alone- in a beautiful marybourg Dec 2020 #4

This is absurd. honest.abe Dec 2020 #5

The $600 for entertainment mercuryblues Dec 2020 #13

Yes indeed. honest.abe Dec 2020 #16

This country has lost its way Johnny2X2X Dec 2020 #6

The article refers to living in the most expensive cities in the country... brooklynite Dec 2020 #8

Last time I checked, they'd figured out where kids come from... brooklynite Dec 2020 #7

In central Illinois you can live a great life for 1/3rd or less of what is needed in HCOL areas beachbumbob Dec 2020 #11

Besides doctors and lawyers, what other occupations pay $150k a yr? New Breed Leader Dec 2020 #12

Actually quite a few in expensive places like SF and NYC as the article states. honest.abe Dec 2020 #17

My reaction to that is to suggest PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2020 #18

It's actually incredible how much money I've saved this year not going out jimfields33 Dec 2020 #20

I haven't seen that thread yet, but I'm not surpised. PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2020 #21

That sounds great and well deserved. When it comes time have fun! jimfields33 Dec 2020 #22