Reply #79: Actually, the average rent in SF is $2400. $1200 gets you a studio. [View All]

[El Pinko]

But rents (and home prices) in SF are way out of whack in relation to incomes. I'm not saying that $50K affords a nice lifestyle, you'd have to live in the sticks to live comfortably on that, but $50K is generally not considered "working poor". Unfortunately, with fuel, housing and food factored in, the cost of living in the last 7 years has gotten exorbitantly high while incomes have not kept up, so a lot of people who are supposedly "middle class" now feel like the working poor (or are up to their necks in hock maintaining the illusion of "middle class".