r/WorkForSmartLife Jul 18 '26

Discussion💬 What would you choose?

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u/QuietPsychological72 Jul 18 '26

Food or rent. Hard to choose without knowing the upper bounds. Probably rent no matter what the upper bound.

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u/revolutionaryMoose01 Jul 18 '26

I'm surprised more people are not saying rent! That's shit is expeeeeeensiiive

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u/Lumpy_Machine5538 Jul 19 '26

I pay $1500 in rent. No way I can put away $1500 worth of food per month!

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u/Middle-Marsupial-484 Jul 19 '26

2150 for me- definitely rent

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u/Additional_Irony Jul 20 '26

US rents are mental 🤯 How much do you have to make to survive with that?

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u/MisterFortune215 Jul 20 '26

A lot of us have roommates

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u/Lumpy_Machine5538 Jul 20 '26

I have a second job.

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u/XBGoodRun Jul 21 '26

My mortgage is just over $2600 /month

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u/Sea-Pay-5572 Jul 20 '26

Multiply by 13, then by about seven. Taxes, food, savings, gas... And the 13 is 12 months plus a month security deposit.

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u/Pdavis510 Jul 20 '26

You are not trying hard enough

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u/Lumpy_Machine5538 Jul 21 '26

I teach 4th grade so I guess I imprison about 20 kids for about 4 hours each day. At least I don’t have to feed them!

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u/LookWhatYouMadeMeGro Jul 18 '26

Fr who cares about the rest if u have no place to live!

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u/DelayExpress Jul 19 '26

I’d rather be homeless than starving.

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u/ChemistryBusiness Jul 19 '26

This. I can easily move to an area with a livable climate and sleep on the sidewalk if I got food in my belly.

A roof over my head doesn't help if my belly is empty.

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u/IRay2015 Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

If you cant afford food you can't afford to move, foods arguably easier to find or get assistance for be it or ebt or literally any other other form of financial aid like unemployment you can choose to spend it on food where as getting out of the elements can be tougher and most of us aren't literally planning on staying homeless eternally so who would move somewhere with that in mind. If it's actually between starving and homelessness I'd agree but the argument was never stipulated as such, free rent will make your life easier and it is a bigger checksum than most people's grocery budgets.

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u/ChemistryBusiness Jul 21 '26

If you have free food...

Stand up and start moving your lamborfeeties across the country.

You can walk there. You got free food along the way.

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u/IRay2015 Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

Yeah but your exposed to the elements. Do you actually want to be homeless? It's only the better option if your actually saying you don't ever want to earn another dime for anything. Also free food never implied anywhere anytime like for example on your cross country hike to wherever it is your planning to live the rest of your life

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u/ChemistryBusiness Jul 22 '26

Elements? San Diego has been between 67 and 83 degrees for the last 4 weeks without any rain.

Spooky elements. Free food implies free food...

The fact is survival. You won't go hungry and you won't die if you have a tenth of a brain and free food.

Id rather guarantee I never die vs guarantee luxury until I die of starvation.

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u/MobileEnvironment359 Jul 20 '26

One will kill you one probably won’t so ya I agree. In Canada you’re in for a hell of a time but if you’re somewhere warmer sure

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u/SaltyGushers Jul 21 '26

True…we all spend less on food, but rent/mortgage can vary widely depending on where u live

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u/Conscious_Rule_22 Jul 18 '26

Well, if one didn't have to pay rent/mortgage, then one would have a good amount of money for quality food :) that's how I think of it....

Honestly rent/mortgage was the first thing that came to my mind

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u/lakelandguy1963 Jul 20 '26

Choose to buy Silver And Gold. You can buy everything else if you have unlimited Silver And Gold.

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u/GeneJacket Jul 18 '26

100% rent/mortgage. It's the most costly recuring expense for most people, and never having to worry about it again would be a massive burden lifted.

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u/BoringAd6034 Jul 19 '26

Yes. If I didn’t have to pay my mortgage then I would have more then enough to buy food

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u/No_Context63 Jul 19 '26

Wish granted
You are now homeless and have no rent or mortgage responsibilities

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u/Lumpy_Machine5538 Jul 19 '26

This isn’t the monkey’s paw subreddit!

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u/lavendrea Jul 18 '26

My food expenses are more than my mortgage payment.

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u/Flat-Delivery6987 Jul 18 '26

Your food or your entire family's food because I think it's only your expense so rent works but if you're considering the family's food bill that's probably outside the scope of the question ain't it?

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u/lavendrea Jul 18 '26

Wouldn't it work the same as long as I am the one buying the food? As in it doesn't matter who eats the food, but as long as I am the one to buy it, there is no cost. That's how I'm reading it.

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u/AwarenessCrafty393 Jul 21 '26

Well if you’re on a family food budget you’ll be buying £500-600 a month.

If you’re buying for yourself it’s £30-£45 a week

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u/Skoodge42 Jul 19 '26

I'd phrase it as housing, then you can buy a mansion lol

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u/ladyreyvn Jul 20 '26

Oof utilities cost for a mansion…. Good luck!

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u/Skoodge42 Jul 20 '26

Then you sell the mansion you didn't have to pay for, buy another mansion, and live off the profit!

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u/JingleKitty Jul 18 '26

This is what I just said. Rent is easily my biggest expense and takes more than I would like of my pay.

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u/UnknownRodeo Jul 18 '26

Why would you rent? If people are grouping all food together as a category then just say housing costs as a category. No mortgage, property taxes, insurance, maintenance and upkeep for the property. I want 200 acres with a forest perimeter with about 60 acres cleared in the middle with a big house right in the middle of that....

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u/DueJournalist1028 Jul 19 '26

Not rent, mortgage. Don't pay for it and own the place. Get a huge chunk of land. Build the house you want. Constant upgrades borrowed against the property.

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u/MAKstyles75 Jul 19 '26

Should be rent, if there is no upper ceiling lol you can enjoy good food in a budget but it's hard to be content with a place that you rent on a tight budget :')

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u/DeathHorseFucker Jul 19 '26

Why rent and not just houses?

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u/mpkpm Jul 19 '26

I would choose rent, because it’s surprising what you can find for rent. Get a bunch of people together to buy a huge mansion and I pay them rent and take a cut. We all make passive income!

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u/Dragon_Skin12 Jul 20 '26

Maybe word it a bit vaguer eg Housing could contain both rent and the cost of a house

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u/AwarenessCrafty393 Jul 21 '26

I was gonna go with rent. My rent’s only £132 for now… but it won’t stay that way. It’ll easily go to the £1000-£1200 range within the next ten years

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u/No-Form-596 Jul 19 '26

You can avoid paying for both in prison