Spent – Poverty Simulator (2011)

Re:Spent – Poverty Simulator (2011) by jandrese on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @12:07PM (#18284605)

What you need is a tradeoff between high rents and high commuting costs. You can get an affordable rent, but commuting eats 4 hours of each day and a big chunk of that money you were saving on rent.

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Re:Spent – Poverty Simulator (2011) by wongarsu on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @12:25PM (#18284782)

I can't judge how true this is in the US, but in Europe the sane choice in this situation would be to rent a smaller flat, and maybe get a flatmate (more unusual with a child, but not unheard of).

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Re:Spent – Poverty Simulator (2011) by olliej on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @01:05PM (#18285204)

The assumption you’re making is that you’re not already in a small shared flat (the amounts quoted are reasonable for a shared apartment in most of the Bay Area)

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