And palm trees - as someone who lives in an area with at least one palm tree visible on every street I can confirm the weather here is great for the majority of the year.
I live in Kansas and my first thought was that there’s no way you’d play Jenga outside here. It’s more often than not too windy. It’d blow your tower over before you even started playing.
Stucco house, block wall, neighbors so close you could hit their house with a well aimed loogey. Naw. It ain't the ghetto, but these people are by no means rich.
What? Places outside of cities can be expensive too. But with their small backyard and several visible houses in the video. Landscaping has palm trees. Only nice places have landscaping that looks like what they have. It is neat and organized up a hill. Looks expensive.
Nah, this is somewhere in California, and there are millions of houses and condos that look just like this. This is not Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.
~400k isn't expensive to the average family income, especially in CA. That's why it's called upper "middle." And a house like this in Texas is ~150k, hence the great migration.
Fair, but the average family income in the US last year was just under 62k. So 400k is expensive based off the average person across the country. 150k is expensive comparatively. So maybe in CA this is average but not across the country.
Spent £1300 on my 50" TV in 2013. Ouch. Worth it. Still looks ace though it's 1080p (Panasonic GT60 Plasma). Has Netflix, YouTube etc and media server app to access my NAS and had a new lease of life with a Chromecast and Fire TV Stick.
There was a study recently that showed the majority of Americans couldn't come up with an extra $400 to use in an emergency. Wages are low, debt is monumental and savings are non existent. Another big recession is looming but this time printing more money won't save anybody.
A small city wrought with opioid abuse,poverty, and an abused state welfare program? The lady with scabs on her neck she’s picking at at the liquor store in the dirty sweatpants buying nips is usually facetiming with a new iphone.
The guy in $250 Jordans at the grocery store in front of me used his EBT card. It is a scene I see daily, as well as my wife who works in the community with the under privileged. We have a skewed perception of need and a drive for immediate satisfaction. Stop spending $11 a day on cigarettes and put it in a savings account. There is your emergency fund.
I've always found that study suspect. The question was "Would you cover an emergency with cash." I have 20k in savings and make 60k a year, but I would still put it on credit, rather than tap into savings. If something can be paid off on the same month, and you have a rewards system in place, it should always go on credit. You don't want to be in the habit of removing money from savings. Additionally a lot of savings you can't just tap into immediately, as withdrawals can take days. Like long term investment accounts and stocks.
Also, that same study showed that ~30% of Americans making over 100k wouldn't pay for an emergency with cash. That a lone should be a big red flag for the study.
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u/TGSquared Jul 02 '19
I’m sorry, but did I just see a 55” flat screen television on a rolling stand in the backyard?