http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026877702Oh my,
Since they created these hellholes, I think they should be forced to stay there.
edhopper (14,192 posts) Sun Jun 21, 2015, 05:31 PM
Priced Out
It's how I feel about everything more and more.
I live in NY, we are priced out of buying anything and soon might be priced out of renting.
And that pretty much goes for the NE Coast from Washington to Boston.
Probably the same for the West Coast.
Moving to a more affordable area only makes sense if there is work there. But this is where my work is, and I like where I live.
I get the sense that that is how it is for more and more Americans, priced out of a good place to live, a nice vacation, a nice meal out, etc..
The Country looks more and more like a place for and about the 1%.
Am I just myopic about my situation, or is this going to be the norm?
Lots of primitive comments, but only here's only a few, selected at random:
Cleita (72,770 posts) Sun Jun 21, 2015, 05:39 PM
3. I'm on the West Coast and have to get by on SS.
The cost of living has far outpaced the COLAs on SS. I'm actually hoping I don't live to a ripe old age because I have no more budget adjustments I can make.
^^^the primitive's already at a ripe old age, being older even than California Peggy; so ancient she can even remember pre-World War II Los Angeles.
nadinbrzezinski (138,404 posts) Sun Jun 21, 2015, 05:46 PM
9. The way things are
when we retire we will have to move somewhere ELSE. We cannot afford it, period.
It used to be we were in a very affordable city, but not anymore.
Something will have to give.
<<<wonders what this when "we" retire bit is; the cousin's husband is the only one who works.
SoCalDem (102,178 posts) Sun Jun 21, 2015, 06:55 PM
19. We are selling our 4 br 2 ba here in SoCal and are moving to WA
With what we have saved and what we should net, we can buy a better house with the huge bldg my husband needs for his damned toys & tools and his precious pick up and I can finally get my walk in pantry ..and we can do for next to nothing every month..
We have only SS (his and mine) and a small pension (mine)..
SoCal forever will eat us alive..
thunderthighs (23,055 posts) Sun Jun 21, 2015, 05:53 PM
11. husband and i are damned near priced out of where we live
college town with a fair number of tech jobs, population around 140k ish when school is in. we're technically lower middle class, but average rent for a two bed is half our monthly income and we can't even get a reasonably-sized one bed at a good price. our place isn't bad and we moved in before rent got really outrageous.
before anyone beats up on us for not just living in a one bed, husband does electronics repair for extra money and records music as a hobby, so we need the space. moving to a one-bed at this point would only increase the rent while decreasing living space.
at this point we can't afford to move to another place in town. we could move out of town, but the extra gas would make it a wash.
<<<thinks thunderthighs would be surprised, how much disposable income she'd suddenly have, if she quit the dope.
Ms. Hindenberg:
Warpy (83,079 posts) Sun Jun 21, 2015, 06:59 PM
23. I felt the same way when I lived in Boston
and was paying half my pay for rent that was going up faster than the paycheck did.
I was lucky, nursing was a very portable job. The pay went a lot farther out here in New Mexico.
However, things like vacations were still for other people, never for me. Ditto dinner out in places that lacked harsh fluorescent lighting and had tablecloths.
No matter where you are, that's the same. Things our parents did are now far out of our own reach. It's the measure of how the middle class is now working class--or worse.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN (8,702 posts) Sun Jun 21, 2015, 07:29 PM
28. It's what the TPP will speed up.
The process of turning America into another Brazil, with the 1% living in palatial estates, walled off from the crowded slums into which the rest of us will be crammed when there are nowhere near enough jobs because most of them have been offshored to places where people are happy to work for 50 cents a day.
