Bro. I’m not even in California and it still cost me about five grand to move down the street to a different apartment. You can forget moving out of state. I can only imagine what it must be like for those poor folks.
The rich, as they should be now but aren’t because they’re allowed to use every loophole possible to not pay any taxes.
There are fundamental human rights to be allowed to eat, drink, sleep in a bed under a roof, and even have internet access. Do you think the underpaid, overworked masses can afford all that for everyone, or is it the people getting rich off their backs?
Yeah, all that tracks. For me and my wife, anyway. We had to blow all our savings just to move to another apartment down the road, and there’s been more than one time we’ve had to put essentials (gas, groceries, medication) on a credit card. We both got decent pay bumps this year, but it hasn’t helped in the slightest.
Hey, some people learn from their mistakes. Hell, my first PC build (23 years ago…) was DOA because I had inadvertently bent a pin on the CPU, and it got smashed when I tightened down the cooler. That was an expensive mistake, but one I certainly learned from.
The issue is, at the end of the day, that nobody ever seems to know how to keep a decent distance away from the car in front of them. It doesn’t matter how slow traffic is, leave some space in front of you. It gives you room to slow down in case something happens, and it gives everyone else room to merge.
And people repairing their own stuff is always a good idea. People learning how to maintain their electronics is never a bad thing! Everyone should pick up a soldering iron at some point. :)
So, from my personal perspective, mine and my wife’s wages did go up during those years. Quite substantially, I might add. Mine by $5/hr to $20/hr and hers by nearly $10/hr to $24/hr. Not without some time with us both being unemployed during the pandemic.
However, none of that helped us. We had to declare bankruptcy. Both our cars died and we couldn’t afford new ones, so we borrowed one until IT died and saved some money for a new (to us) car. Now we’re in more debt than before the bankruptcy thanks to that car and credit cards that I had to take out for us to be able to afford to eat during some hard times.
We’re paycheck to paycheck. Barely. Literally everything is more expensive. It took our entire savings (about $6k) just to move down the road to another apartment that wasn’t going to jack up our rent by $300/mo. Almost every dime goes to paying bills.
My net worth is negative. Has been since I was born. And I see no way out.
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Goes? As in, like, just now? Not, I dunno, years ago?