Re:What you’d need to make in every county in the US to affo...
by danielweber on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @04:27PM
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In some dense cities, the bulk of the transportation costs are rolled into your housing costs, because you are buying walking distance to a subway.
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Re:What you’d need to make in every county in the US to affo...
by mikeash on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @05:15PM
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Yes, it really seems like a variable approach would work better. There's a big difference between spending 30% of your income on housing while living in a rural area and doing so in the middle of Manhattan. I imagine that percentage could go considerably higher in big cities.