Reply #59: Same here. [View All]

[Berry Cool]

In the Cleveland area, you can actually rent a decent, roomy one-bedroom apartment for three figures a month. There are places in upstate New York where you can buy an older, but very decent, house for $40,000 or so. Those are just two examples. In places like that, earning less than $50K a year as a single person doesn't automatically make you poor. It depends. Is it $10K? Yeah. Is it $45K? My God, you're loaded. But could you buy a house in the Silicon Valley? Could you afford a Manhattan apartment with a WINDOW in it? Ha! Well, OK, no. But that's part of why we live here. I'd rather have a one-bedroom apartment in Cleveland than a Manhattan shoebox full of roaches that I can barely turn around in where the "kitchen" consists of a hot plate set up in a closet. I wouldn't want to move to a place like that unless I was making at least six figures.