Re:Experienced well-being rises with income, even above $75,...
by dilap on Sunday January 24, 2021 @03:40PM
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Beach bum lifestyle seems appealing, except if you want kids. I'm guessing you don't?
Re:Experienced well-being rises with income, even above $75,...
by potions on Sunday January 24, 2021 @04:54PM
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do kids hate the beach? I feel like 'relatively meager compared to HN' could be low 100k and that would be plenty livable, 2-3x the household median income at non super fancy beach towns in the east/south US.
Re:Experienced well-being rises with income, even above $75,...
by nostrademons on Monday January 25, 2021 @12:12PM
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As someone whose kid loves the beach - beach time with small children is very different from beach time as a childless couple. You have to constantly watch the kid to make sure they're not running into the waves, or eating sand, or throwing sand at other beachgoers, or about to fall into the creek. It's not at all as relaxing as going to the beach as a single person or couple is, for reasons entirely unrelated to how much going to the beach costs.
I'm glad I snapped out of the delusion that you need to waste your youth working so that you can finally enjoy life when you're old and have trouble getting a boner.
We have a cultural problem where we don't use money to buy time. We instead use money to buy everything else. You're usually looked down on for making the time trade, like some sort of deadbeat who doesn't want to work hard. We make day to day decisions as if we were immortal.