I have no idea how a family of four can live on $23,498 per year. I don’t even know how a family of one can live on it.
I lived for the last 2 years of grad school on $21,000 but I was constantly running short and had to run up a debt. Every unexpected expense would turn into a major hardship. Once I needed a root canal, at another time the bank made a mistake and kept punishing me for it, then I had to make an unexpected trip, then my laptop died, then Greyhound lost the suitcase with all of the books I was using for my dissertation and I had to buy them all over again, etc. I knew, however, that grad school would soon be over and I’d get a real job, so the debt I was accumulating wasn’t that scary.
How people manage to live permanently on that kind of money is beyond me. And I come from a 3rd world country, so it isn’t like I’m spoiled by a life of luxury.
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I have no idea how a family of four can live on $23,498 per year. I don’t even know how a family of one can live on it.
Its not easy. At my last job I (a “family” of one so to speak) was making 29,301 and was living paycheck to paycheck.
I truly don’t know how a family of four could do it.
In all seriousness those that do need to be the ones running the finances in the country.
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I’m living on less than that and doing fine (although I would like to be saving more). I don’t know how anyone could support a family of four with that level of pay though. I think I can support myself mainly because my rent is very cheap and I get a lot of free food from my workplace, and most people don’t have such luck.
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I live on very, very little
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