• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So, take the above with a grain of salt because it is, after all, green text. The numbers may be bullshit. The entire thing may be bullshit. Who knows.

    But that said. $2000 monthly is more than my mortgage, utilities, insurance, internet, cell phone, and fuel expenditures combined in the same span of time. That is insane. (With what I overpay towards the principal on my mortgage puts me above that, but I wouldn’t technically have to. I’d just like to actually own my house some time this century, or at least before I’m dead.)

    Why anyone would deliberately choose to live that way is beyond me. There isn’t anything special about my situation; I live in the here and now, at precisely the same date and time as this dude, in the same country, in a major metropolitan area. I’m not an executive, CEO, or landlord. I work in the durable goods industry, for fuck’s sake.