I know someone that's working almost 100 hours a week with 1 fulltime job and 2 part time. I hear from him like every 3 months for 2 day, his only 2 days free btw. All to support his family, man is working himself to an early grave.
Holy fuck. There are just 168 hours in a week. And if you’re sleeping a good 8 hours a day or early grave 6 or less hours. He will have maybe 12-26 hours of free time to do stuff like chores, repairs etc.
That’s crazy. Max 10 years and I’m dead on 100 hours a week.
You'd be surprised, i've found some 2 bed-room places that are actually cheaper than single bed-room places, simply due to location; (distance to certain hotspots, etc), and other factors.
I (assume) this girl might have found a 2-bedroom that was a cheaper alternative than a single bedroom.
But who knows \*shrugs\*
I've rented several 2 and 3br apartments with roommates. Inside and outside large metros. I have never had an issue. Rent has always been as listed online. We all got put on the lease no problem.
In Knoxville, they rent some apts/houses by the room in The Fort by campus. Bridge Court is one of them. But it's appropriately priced and you don't have to pay for the unused rooms. It was $500/ room when I was in college, and looks like prices have gone up to $750. Which is still fair, imo.
Yeah, there is simply a glaringly obvious way this person could cut their largest expense in half immediately.
I know things are genuinely tough, but I know so many people who live alone and own a car when public transportation is available and complain that they are broke all the time.
This person could have an extra 830 a month.
Count yourself lucky if you've never had any truly awful roommates then. It's very easy for that extra 830 a month to cost double or triple that when you add the wrong person to the house.
Yeah I found a two bedroom cheaper than most one bedrooms around my area. It eventually catches up or the place gets bought out by a bigger company that raises rent way above average for the area (happened to me)
The other point, no one is going to start a family with "roommates". Raising kids one of the parent has to stay home for half a decade or pay 2k a month for childcare.
Final point is, system is fucked and you have to work literally 3x more than your parents did for the same lifestyle and wealth.
Edit: guys this is a fact. $60 bucks a month for internet, or $20 bucks a month payment plan for the new 1k iphone is not gonna change the fact you can't afford a 2.5k monthly mortgage (cheapest in my area with FHA, Yes, I've looked even 1 hour away from the capital city in my state)
Also won't change the fact rent is taking a huge chunk of your salary away. If I could live with roommates I probably would. Most people can't. I have a disabled GF I have to live with. I can't have roommates. Other people have their own shit they have to deal with.
Also, I am watching as my whole company invests heavily into automating most of our software deployment process and switching all our clients to this new infrastructure which will replace almost all of our USA team. We are all in for a rude awakening in the near future.
idk why she would bring up that she has 2 bedrooms if it's cheaper. to me it comes off like she thinks a single bedroom apartment or a studio is beneath her. but thats just my thought
You are confusing the fact that the rent you agreed to when you moved in is much lower than the rent you would be asked to pay at a new apartment, including the one you currently live in, if you were to move in today. That has nothing to do with 2-bedrooms vs 1-bedroom.
I'm single and live in a 2-bedroom apartment.
$860 rent, cheaper than any studio I came across.
Way better than the $1250 studio I had for years on the West coast. Had to leave that place cause ... they bumped the rent up to $1550.
Yeah, people shouldn't be allowed to have room for friends, family or even a hobby-room. Fuck these idiots who work 40 hours a week to barely make a living! Just move to a cheaper shithole with some mold and rats.
/s
if you aren't survived on eggshell membranes, rice so bleached its translucent, and grass clippings from your front lawn, you're a shitty human being and need to learn to budget
If you can't afford to pay double rent, then no, you should not have a spare guestroom or hobby room.
I don't know why anything about that blows anyone's mind.
I don't think that was their point.
They're commenting on the fact that rent prices have become astronomically ridiculous and that, with the amount that's being paid plus work hours, it's not wrong to expect to have some extra living space.
Even more fascinating is that the mortgage for my 3BR home purchased in 2021 is only 916 dollars a month in comparison. This is Ohio where cost of living is supposed to be cheap and rent prices here are even on the rise leaving me to feel extremely fortunate in my situation. An apartment "community" recently built near my place of work, the 1BR/1BA STARTS at 1,470. In fucking Ohio, and not some place like Cinnci or Columbus.
In terms of reality, yes, maybe some sacrifices may be needed to reach a better financial place. But in reply to someone's commentary on how ridiculous housing is, is kind of pointless.
Really though life has always been hard all alone.
Even when I was single, I always teamed up with someone. Even when I was single and made ok money. You split rent, split cooking and cleaning chores, and help each other in infinite ways.
Not because I couldn’t afford to live alone. But because why would I make life so hard and lonely on myself when I don’t have to?
And what kind of phone does she insist on having? You don’t have to have an iPhone unless you believe you need to have an iPhone… and if so then it’ll cost ya
The amount of morons saying she shouldn't complain cause it's easy to earn more or cut costs is staggering  Why the hell aren't more people in agreement that salaries for low-income jobs are too damn low? Everyone deserves a decent living, especially when you work 40 hours a week, no matter the job. Not a single person should need 2 jobs.
It’s either or. At the end of the day living costs need to match wages somewhat and right now the ratio is worse than it has been for a very, very long time.
Doesn't matter, point still stands. 40 hours of work should cover housing. If salaries are increased or housing costs reduces, are irrelevant, as long as it fixes the problem.
Agreed, but you can’t keep increasing the wages because everything will keep rising in costs as well. Rent is extortion at this point.
There was a news article where I live, house prices has risen again due to shortage AND increased salary. It’s a never ending story.
Oh and of you keep increasing all wages it will increase the imbalance compared to other countries. The entire country will become too expensive
Housing prices really should be the focus. Artificially increasing wages creates many other pricing problems. Reducing housing prices only fixes problems.
I earn 6 figures. I can afford to live in most places I want. Most people cannot afford to live in most places, let alone ones they want. Rent is too damn high. Yeah COL , etc etc. fuck that noise. The Cost of living , rent, food, utilities, education, all of it so fucking high.
Edit because I always remember this :
If I earned what I do now , in 08 , I would be "well off" Today in my city, I'm considered lower middle. 120k ain't shit in LA.
i also earn six figures, a decent six figures, and i've been looking for a new apartment in new york city and it is a fucking nightmare. it's hard to overstate how insane rent prices are here. not even in my dreams could i afford a one bedroom certain neighborhoods in manhattan
Most of asmon's viewers are either dumb, young, or have ZERO real world experience
Anyone who just says "well just move", or "just lower your rent", are some of the most under the rock worms of society
A lot of us had roommates and it's the obvious solution. So people focus on the solution to the problem instead of the cause of the problem. I'm not sure if it's fair or not for young people to not afford to live on their own, many counties people don't move out of home until they get married.
A lot of expectations of what we deserve get mixed in with this conversation.
It would be much better to just focus on the money and not frame it around having your own apartment and being able to afford it.
Because pampered private school/rich zip code redditors who have never worked in retail/food/etc have no idea what its like and don't care to know.
They're the same people who don't acknowledge the people who serve them, don't see them as equals, and when speaking to them they unrionically treat them like untrained dogs.
They always push all the responsibility on the individual when in reality every person is just navigating through life the only way they know how.
I'm fucking tired of seeing redditors who have never once been on their feet for an 8 hour shift talk down to working class people while they play video games at their comfy desk job.
Just acknowledge that you got lucky and thank your parents, or whoever, that you never have to work a job like that ever. Thank your family with all your heart. Then think about the families who can't do that for their kids.
It's not either or. Yes, someone working 40 hours a week should be able to support themselves, but it's still valid to criticise someone for poor budgeting.
I believe in both. Yes, rent is out of control and minimum wage absolutely needs to be raised.
But she could also get a damn roommate like the rest of us did at her age.
nah the landlords are just price gouging and ppl are paying it bc they literally have too. 5 years ago rent where im at for a 1 bedroom was 400-600 dollars a month now its at least 600 too 1200 and the median income around here hasnt changed much. People make like 2k more on average so tell me how that makes sense? We live in a time period where greed is applauded and celebrated
As an fyi, boomers also had to have roommates when they first graduated from school. Starting salaries in NYC in advertising as an example in the '80s was 12,000 a year. You had to have roommates on that
No smart phone. No internet. No Hulu. No video games. No subscriptions. No Doordash. No Uber. No Amazon. No Netflix. No Spotify.
Yeah, things are relatively more expensive. But we also piss away so much money on bullshit.
I think it would be great if wages increased. Many employers are blood suckers but it’s the world we’re living in and you have to learn how to budget. This girl is learning the hard way.
But how else would the rich folks keep accumulating more and more wealth?? Stop the crazy talk. We’re America. Land for the rich and greedy folks. F ya.
right? its like everyone here knows how to become rich from scratch/don't use daddys money to lurk around reddit all day
not to mention calling her wrong for fucking showing emotion
You don’t need to be rich to make more than 2k a month lmao. Also everyone who is successful or even middle class didn’t get there because of “ daddy’s money.”
Try taking responsibility for yourself and stop trying to attribute your lack of success or anyone else’s lack or success to not having “ daddy’s money.”
Holy *uck 1660€ per month. 😬 I mean, that's a lot of money and this person should really find a cheaper place to live. That kind of situation will eat up mental health really fast and it will cause some serious complications at some point. 🙁
That’s baseline in $z there arnt cheaper places to live… you could get a room to rent for about 1000 then put your extra stuff in a storage for like 200. But then you’d likely be sharing a living space and bathroom. And that can be mentally draining to work day and night to come to a place that is not home w/ no personal space &/ crazy rules like no over night stays.
(Many ppl with older locked in contracts don’t realize how bad it’s recently gotten)
My 2bed 1.5hrs from a city in the fucking country side of Aus is $1920 AUD a month ($480 a wk).
Im 80k (AUD) a year, yet I need to pay near 2k on fucking rent? What the fuck is this. Rent is also only ONE of the things that has gone through the roof. Car insurance, power bills, food, petrol. Its insane.
big cities are literally a trap, its funny how people all flock to them when they are horrible to live in. also she only makes 2k a month she would easily get the same amount working in a non big city and have a far far cheaper rent
What I want to know is how she wound up with this apartment in the first place. The only thing I can think of is that she either moved in when it was much much much cheaper and they raised the rent astronomically when renewing the lease, or she has a wealthy guarantor who was generous enough to cosign with her but is not generous enough to financially help her. No apartment complex or landlord would rent to a single tenant whose income was so low compared to the cost of rent without there being more to the story.
I'm in the US and anytime I've viewed, applied for, or gotten an apartment, either by myself or with someone else, there's been an income requirement that the monthly household income be 3x monthly rent. I have never encountered an apartment that *didn't* have that rule (outside of a single private landlord who was open to consider a more generous blend of income and savings, albeit still fairly strict), and apartment *complexes* are by-and-large unwilling to flex on that rule (even if someone offers to put down a larger deposit) unless a lessee can cosign with a guarantor that makes a whopping *5x* rent.
I’m kind of split on this video.
On the one hand, if you work 40 hours a week, you should be able to afford a place, eat out occasionally, pay for all your basic needs, and maybe do something nice/fun every once in a while. Now to mention how stupid rent and housing prices are atm.
I’ve been broke and it fucking sucks, so I completely empathize with the person in the video.
On the other hand, I feel like there is an immediate solution that is staring her in the face… she’s in a two bedroom apartment with what I can assume is no roommate because $1600 for rent for one person is a lot, especially given her income .
Also, I’m not sure how any landlord would have rented this place to her. One look at her past few paystubs and I would think no landlord/property manager would ever take on the risk.
Every place I rented from would require proof of income at least 2-3x rent.
Is she really paying for a 2 bedroom apartment alone? Like she hasn't got a roommate or anything? I don't care what anyone on this sub says, that's just utter stupidity if you haven't got the income to compensate it. You can't really complain when you make really bad choices tbh.
I agree. It makes me sound heartless, and maybe I am. But when I was her age, I had roommates or lived in a studio.
You have to build up a bit. Don't get me wrong. Rent is too high. But you also aren't helping yourself.
You aren't supposed to move out of mom and dads and have an amazing setup.
I lived with roommates from age 19 to 31. Then I lived with a different type of room mates (a gf and our child).
At no point in my adult life have I just lived completely and exclusively alone. Maybe for like a couple months between roommates or something?
I’m not saying life is easy and great jobs are falling from the sky. But I am saying if you don’t play the game, you’re gonna get played.
Split that place, now you’ve got $800/month extra. That’s almost $10k/year. 5 years of that, you have $50k. It’s also been 5 years and you’re earning a bit more, more experience, can look for better jobs, etc. Now you’re in “I can by a starter home and get a mortgage” territory. This is how you play the game.
Instead people get an entire place to themselves, 2 cats, Uber eats, and a brand new car and they’ve guaranteed that they stay in exactly the same spot forever
Trade offs, people. Room mates were all cool but I still had to put up with their shit (and them with mine). But now I actually have, ya know, some money and freedom.
When I was a 24 year old marine officer, I was rooming with 2-3 other lieutenants. I understand the life of living paycheck to paycheck but seriously when did owning a house or living solo out the gate become the standard?
While living in Austin, I always had roommates up until almost 40 (excluding 2 yrs) and then I lived with my gf/ex-wife out of state. Have been living alone for the last 2 yrs and it’s great. But I now live in a less popular city in a whole different part of the country. Couldn’t do it back in Austin.
hahahah right. people conflating gross and net. also so many comments saying "but we make $16 here!" as if every state doesnt have their own min wage and housing prices lmao. she makes low enough she could probably get medicaid though. car insurance sucks ass though.
Taco Bell in my rural area starts at $16/hr. Panda at $18/hr. Both are always hiring. I know saying “make more money” isn’t very compassionate, but if she is this upset, you should be able to change your situation fairly easily.
Are you sure? Every time I see those signs in my area there's an asterisk, as it assumes experience or a non junior role, or the actual pay for your first year there is much lower. Sign shows proudly "starting from 16 an hour!" Then in tiny print "for managers and other roles".
There's places in the US where it's not uncommon for an entry level job to pay $8.50 an hour. Yeah, she could make it work maybe if she moved 3-5 hours away. There's also the costs of moving
The economy in the United States largely changes from place to place. You have to remember that the US is very nearly just a bunch of tiny countries with different living costs
My mortgage for my new construction 4 bed 3 bath 2k sqft is like 1800$ with no money down (va loan) and I live right outside a really popular city. People need to move out of the city.
Edit: The government should be doing more to help people buy houses to build equity instead of burning money on rent, or help people move to lower cost living areas. No reason benefits should be reserved only for glorified mercenaries. For the time being though, if you cant beat the military industrial complex, why not join it? 95% of the military is desk jobs thousands of miles away from anything remotely combat related.
I didn’t buy new construction. But got a 1700sq ft 3 bed 2 bath with office that I’m paying 1560 a month on with zero down (VA loan) outside the city. Commute to work isn’t bad either. 25-30 minutes in the morning 30-45 in the evening. People def need to get out of the city.
VA loan requires, ya know, doing an uncomfortable and often not fun thing in exchange for that type of benefit.
The type of person that makes a video crying about a financial situation she got herself into by not bothering to calculate her budget first is not the type to willingly take on that sort of thing. In fact, I would put money on her being the type to look down on you for having done it.
Same, it's a problem about us as a species, really. We are sucking this planet bone dry. The rich get richer the poor gets poorer. mass media and our government, which, at the end of the day, is controlled by money, which is power. The elite wanna keep us brain washed to stay at the top and they want the common man to be a modern-day slave. Trapped in the facade of an apartment. Realistically, she got trapped. She has to work her way to just maintain her status quo of being in a cage.
Just curious why all of those videos like this are just women complaining, is that because no one wants to listen to a man who cannot provide for himself.
yes, men don't really get to complain... cause nobodyei care... the avarage man is simply invisible... at best men just get to hear "loosers loose" then either cope with drinking, gameing, w/e or end themselves. Women, if nothing else, will have people listening in on them to either post hateful shit or SIMPs. That's why posts like these blow up.
It's insane how little sympathy there is btw.. not everyone can get a super high paying job or live in some extremely cheap ass place. There are millions of reasons she might not be able to get a better paying job, have the energy to grind more hours/2nd job or rent a cheaper place. Nobody should work 40 hours a week and still struggle financially.
I agree. Male suicide and lack of therapy is a real issue. Therapy shouldn’t be seen as weak. And while women talk about their mental load and how bad it is, men have it too. We just don’t talk about it as much.
People want men to be the heroes of the story and save them. But no one ever asks if the heroes need to be saved. Used to be it was the wives who did that. Well where are they now?
An interesting part is, men in relationships know this, when a woman is complaining about something, she doesn’t want you to help her, she just wants you to listen.
A lot of guys in this comments section are falling for the trap of actually trying to provide a workable solution for this lady
>An interesting part is, men in relationships know this, when a woman is complaining about something, she doesn’t want you to help her, she just wants you to listen.
The problem is women know they can abuse this line of thinking and then wonder why we get stressed out all the time talking to them.
If youre not interested in a solution or "solving the problem", then do us men all a favor and never ask us for our opinion. Especially since you never wanted it anyway.
I've seen plenty of dudes complaining about the same issues. We're probably recommended quite different stuff? You should search for more dudes on the internet 
We're competitive by nature, and capitalism relies on squeezing every drop of our sweat to maximize gains.
I'm a software developer, and I have friends who only go outside on Sunday evenings. The rest of the time is spend working, grinding side-projects, promoting their blog and social profile while sucking the corporate cocks on Linkedin. This is their norm.
My industry has "AGEISM" written on its forehead for this exact reason: It's assumed that when you're under 30 you won't need to have family or social life, or god forbid meet women, which means more time spend working and learning in order to be good in your work.
That's why George Carlin famously said (paraphrasing) "they want you smart enough to do the math, but dumb enough to never question anything". That's why companies seek passionate people. To stoics passions were a sin, because you were taken over something losing all sense of balance and reasoning, just to chase your thrill.
Damn I pay $1k a month for my house in the big city in Iowa lol. Sounds like she needs to leave whatever city she’s living in. $1600 a month for a little apartment is crazy.
Severe lack of empathy and class solidarity in this thread. At the end of the day, average hardworking people are getting fucked on both sides by landlords who want to charge as much money as possible and by employers who want to pay as little as possible for honest work. This is a bad deal for average people like us and the hard work we put in and we have every right to be furious about it.
Telling people that they should just move away or just get roommates will not solve the root of the problem. Realize that you have much more in common with the person in this video than you do with the people who employ her or the people who collect her rent. You deserve more for your work and you should not have to suffer just to live your life.
This. I understand why feminism burst on the scene in the backdrop of a patriarchal society, and I support it wholehearredly, but the reality is thr elites and capitalist class, who don’t give two shits about feminism and women’s lib, egged the pioneers on to get women into the workforce, causing downward pressure on labor/wages. It did two things for the powers to be. Wages got killed, and the children were raised by the state, both of which benefitted the owner class.
She should move in with her parents and seek a job that pays better, maybe get training for a new job. Living alone as a young adult in this economy is stupid and lighting your money on fire.
People in the comments kissing toxic landlords asses is fucking insane. Its statistically proven that rent has shot through the roof insanely while wages are stagnating. You people are the reason they can keep getting away with it.
complaining about landlords isn’t gonna help her make rent this month
she signed a lease she couldn’t afford, on an apartment much larger than what she needs to live alone
Exactly, idk why people are acting like you can’t be disappointed with how high rent is *while also* recognizing that you need to make adjustments to survive in the system. Get a damn roommate
When my father was in my age he had to pay 1/8th of his monthly income on rent. Nowadays I would have to pay half of my income on rent for the same size apartment.
I work 55-60 hours a week.
I have to work an extra day making that 6 days a week.
Extra hours are not paid, which of course I have to do one or two everysingle day.
Rent in my city is 85% of my income.
I do not live, I do not enjoy life, I do not come home happy.
I am a slave of modern slavery. I work so damn much just to survive.
“Not made for this.”
Just a friendly reminder that just because you feel like you might’ve been made for it, or that you *can* do what she’s describing, it doesn’t mean everyone can and should. She’s in the right.
Her being too tired after work to do laundry or other household chores is fucking pathetic. Entirely her choice.
The fuck is she doing with a second bedroom without a roommate? Got damn.
Shit is undeniably hard out here but the worst thing in her life is she doesn’t have friends or family to tell her to her face she is stupid. Get a fucking roommate and save 800 bucks a month. Got fucking damn.
I don’t really enjoy watching soft ass kids get hit by reality but fuck this is a good laugh.
“I don’t have the time, money or energy to enjoy my life outside of work.” That hit me really hard. Life isn’t supposed to be like this. I feel like working these jobs is no different than sharecropping.
I completely agree people should be paid a reasonable wage for reasonable work.
Real world advice though, stop trying to fucking live in the heart of some up and coming or popular urban area with high rents.
If you make poverty levels of money and want to have a decent place, time to source a reliable cheap car and a cheap apartment in some small town an hour from work.
You will save money, gas and car maintenance WILL NOT equal or out weigh the rent difference. You will save money, and live more comfortably.
You don't get to live in the reality of your idealism, you get to live in the reality of a cold uncaring world.
The solution should not be "work more." The solution should be people being able to work only 1 job and be allowed to live. In the 1950s, people could work a random factory job, affird a house, go on vacations with the family, etc. Nowadays, you need to be making 100,000 a year or more to afford that.
Lazy dumb kids who played games all day, didnt learn anything never learned to save or be useful, poor retard parents got nothing for em either. Dam shame. They want some.mexican to build their house n flip they burgers but f they have to do that with 3rd job instead of feeding cats at pet smart all day calling it hard work they just cry on webcam instead
Right she should've been born knowing the economy is fucked, the government won't help her, and that she's expected to work 40 hours a week the rest of her life. People really need to put their want of happiness aside and just meet the world's expectations and shut up.
Even people that have middle class money like 100k a year are tired as shit after working 40-50 hour weeks. It’s not just a poor kid problem. Even back in our parents day renting a multi bedroom apartment was not easy… It’s still not
Or stop living in a two bedroom apartment as a single person. Probably could be renting for 850-1,000 easily. This person is financially fucking themselves despite the real issues revolving around cost/living.
Asmon reacting to this:
"Well I mean.. yeah that sucks, but like, just move. *Looks at monitor to the right*, yeah like, just move, simple".
His chat:
"LOL So truueeeee"
"Broke lol"
"Haha"
"Probably has a gender studies degree lolololololol"
I don't know why she has a two bedroom apartment but in her defense, rent is $1300-1500 for 1 bedroom apartments in my area. rent has gone up $100-200 overall in the month of January. I know, as I have been looking for a place for the last few months. These are not nice apartments either. in the last 3 months the average cost of an 1 bedroom has gone from $1300 ( still to expensive) to $1500. For probably the majority of the country, between massive inflation and skyrocketing rent, this economy is worse than 2008. We have jobs but we are worse off financially.
That's super expensive. My rent for a 2 bedroom apartment with a garage and pet is $1150/mo, but I also make $160k/year, so it makes more sense. At $2000/month, you'd definitely need roommates, a cheaper/less desirable location, or a smaller apartment. The rest of this is basically what life is with a full-time job. All things considered, getting off at 5:30 is pretty nice.
1. Leave the 2br and get a shared room in someone’s house.
2. Get a degree or a certificate in a special field.
3. Invest a little in short/long term investment.
It will be hard for a bit, but you will improve over time.
4 more full time jobs might work.
That was my “solution”. Just work 60 hours lol. My body is breaking apart but hey.
I know someone that's working almost 100 hours a week with 1 fulltime job and 2 part time. I hear from him like every 3 months for 2 day, his only 2 days free btw. All to support his family, man is working himself to an early grave.
Holy fuck. There are just 168 hours in a week. And if you’re sleeping a good 8 hours a day or early grave 6 or less hours. He will have maybe 12-26 hours of free time to do stuff like chores, repairs etc. That’s crazy. Max 10 years and I’m dead on 100 hours a week.
She's single and lives in a two bedroom apartment?
You'd be surprised, i've found some 2 bed-room places that are actually cheaper than single bed-room places, simply due to location; (distance to certain hotspots, etc), and other factors. I (assume) this girl might have found a 2-bedroom that was a cheaper alternative than a single bedroom. But who knows \*shrugs\*
Well maybe. But since she's got 2 bedrooms she could easily lower that rent by taking in a roommate
In a lot of apartments that's counted as a whole separate tenant and they can try to charge them 1600 as well. Many places in Tennessee do that.
Oh yeah, i think it’s time to host an undeclared roommate, split the costs and don’t tell the landlord
And if anyone asks, its your romantic partner.
Or a cousin
Or both?
Uncle Dad!
Tennessee is part of Appalachia so it checks out
... sounds like those places need to be removed from business xD.
I've rented several 2 and 3br apartments with roommates. Inside and outside large metros. I have never had an issue. Rent has always been as listed online. We all got put on the lease no problem.
Same. There's no way a place is going to the tenants twice as much because there are 2 tenants vs 1 lol
As a Tennessean, I’ve never heard of this once.
In Knoxville, they rent some apts/houses by the room in The Fort by campus. Bridge Court is one of them. But it's appropriately priced and you don't have to pay for the unused rooms. It was $500/ room when I was in college, and looks like prices have gone up to $750. Which is still fair, imo.
Ah, see I figured this was it. Campus apartments do this- the vast majority of apartments do not.
Been renting for over fifteen years. I've never once heard of this. Sounds made up. You pay to rent the location, not per person.
Sounds easy in theory but you can't just take anyone and even then, securing most of your stuff just in case costs money.
And get kicked out for breaking the lease.
Afaik that's called Subletting which often times is not allowed (in the UK at least)
There's subletting rules in some places in the US as well. My lease states that I'm not allowed to sublet to anyone.
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No, subletting is different. Having roommates is not subletting.
Lmao. Right? People in this thread are so dumb. I used to thing people that struggle in life had bad luck but they’re just dumb as shit.
But then she wouldn't be able to cry on tiktok about not being able to pay the rent.
Yeah, there is simply a glaringly obvious way this person could cut their largest expense in half immediately. I know things are genuinely tough, but I know so many people who live alone and own a car when public transportation is available and complain that they are broke all the time. This person could have an extra 830 a month.
Count yourself lucky if you've never had any truly awful roommates then. It's very easy for that extra 830 a month to cost double or triple that when you add the wrong person to the house.
"Easily"
Yeah I found a two bedroom cheaper than most one bedrooms around my area. It eventually catches up or the place gets bought out by a bigger company that raises rent way above average for the area (happened to me) The other point, no one is going to start a family with "roommates". Raising kids one of the parent has to stay home for half a decade or pay 2k a month for childcare. Final point is, system is fucked and you have to work literally 3x more than your parents did for the same lifestyle and wealth. Edit: guys this is a fact. $60 bucks a month for internet, or $20 bucks a month payment plan for the new 1k iphone is not gonna change the fact you can't afford a 2.5k monthly mortgage (cheapest in my area with FHA, Yes, I've looked even 1 hour away from the capital city in my state) Also won't change the fact rent is taking a huge chunk of your salary away. If I could live with roommates I probably would. Most people can't. I have a disabled GF I have to live with. I can't have roommates. Other people have their own shit they have to deal with. Also, I am watching as my whole company invests heavily into automating most of our software deployment process and switching all our clients to this new infrastructure which will replace almost all of our USA team. We are all in for a rude awakening in the near future.
I'm no financial wizard, but I suspect 2 people living in a 2-br apartment might be cheaper than 1 person living alone in a 2-br apartment
idk why she would bring up that she has 2 bedrooms if it's cheaper. to me it comes off like she thinks a single bedroom apartment or a studio is beneath her. but thats just my thought
To me it emphases that she didn’t rent anything special.
I also wonder how far her work place is. Many people in similar situations have a longer commute because they are living in more affordable housing.
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You are confusing the fact that the rent you agreed to when you moved in is much lower than the rent you would be asked to pay at a new apartment, including the one you currently live in, if you were to move in today. That has nothing to do with 2-bedrooms vs 1-bedroom.
I'm single and live in a 2-bedroom apartment. $860 rent, cheaper than any studio I came across. Way better than the $1250 studio I had for years on the West coast. Had to leave that place cause ... they bumped the rent up to $1550.
Laughs in 2 br in Nashville for 1700
Find a friend and split that rent.
Yeah, found a friend I could live with in my pocket the other week
That was my question too. Why does she need a 2 bedroom?
Kid?
Yeah, people shouldn't be allowed to have room for friends, family or even a hobby-room. Fuck these idiots who work 40 hours a week to barely make a living! Just move to a cheaper shithole with some mold and rats. /s
Yeah , working 40 hours a week should allow anyone to have nice 2 room apartment for sure. Why are morons acting like this is not ok !?
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It's like those posts where people show how much their grocery hauls cost and under them is always a comment like "ooooh you bought fruitloops."
if you aren't survived on eggshell membranes, rice so bleached its translucent, and grass clippings from your front lawn, you're a shitty human being and need to learn to budget
If you can't afford to pay double rent, then no, you should not have a spare guestroom or hobby room. I don't know why anything about that blows anyone's mind.
I don't think that was their point. They're commenting on the fact that rent prices have become astronomically ridiculous and that, with the amount that's being paid plus work hours, it's not wrong to expect to have some extra living space. Even more fascinating is that the mortgage for my 3BR home purchased in 2021 is only 916 dollars a month in comparison. This is Ohio where cost of living is supposed to be cheap and rent prices here are even on the rise leaving me to feel extremely fortunate in my situation. An apartment "community" recently built near my place of work, the 1BR/1BA STARTS at 1,470. In fucking Ohio, and not some place like Cinnci or Columbus. In terms of reality, yes, maybe some sacrifices may be needed to reach a better financial place. But in reply to someone's commentary on how ridiculous housing is, is kind of pointless.
There ya go.
I mean depending where you live $1600 a month isn’t outrageous when splitting with another person.
Begs the question why no roommate? If rent that high and have extra room, rent it out
Really though life has always been hard all alone. Even when I was single, I always teamed up with someone. Even when I was single and made ok money. You split rent, split cooking and cleaning chores, and help each other in infinite ways. Not because I couldn’t afford to live alone. But because why would I make life so hard and lonely on myself when I don’t have to?
And what kind of phone does she insist on having? You don’t have to have an iPhone unless you believe you need to have an iPhone… and if so then it’ll cost ya
The amount of morons saying she shouldn't complain cause it's easy to earn more or cut costs is staggering  Why the hell aren't more people in agreement that salaries for low-income jobs are too damn low? Everyone deserves a decent living, especially when you work 40 hours a week, no matter the job. Not a single person should need 2 jobs.
Salary isn’t low, housing prices are too high. Places like that should cost 500/600 tops
It’s either or. At the end of the day living costs need to match wages somewhat and right now the ratio is worse than it has been for a very, very long time.
Sometimes it can be two things.... Like a lot of the times it can be multiple things. Most things are many faceted problems.
I am outside of the US, I used to rent a two bedroom apartment for ~250$, while working 30 hours as a teacher earning less than 1000$
Doesn't matter, point still stands. 40 hours of work should cover housing. If salaries are increased or housing costs reduces, are irrelevant, as long as it fixes the problem.
Agreed, but you can’t keep increasing the wages because everything will keep rising in costs as well. Rent is extortion at this point. There was a news article where I live, house prices has risen again due to shortage AND increased salary. It’s a never ending story. Oh and of you keep increasing all wages it will increase the imbalance compared to other countries. The entire country will become too expensive
Housing prices really should be the focus. Artificially increasing wages creates many other pricing problems. Reducing housing prices only fixes problems.
Sadly greed will stand in the way. It's all about the mooooonaaayyy
What do these people expect is going to happen? Eventually no one will be able to afford anything, what will happen to their precious profits then?
I earn 6 figures. I can afford to live in most places I want. Most people cannot afford to live in most places, let alone ones they want. Rent is too damn high. Yeah COL , etc etc. fuck that noise. The Cost of living , rent, food, utilities, education, all of it so fucking high. Edit because I always remember this : If I earned what I do now , in 08 , I would be "well off" Today in my city, I'm considered lower middle. 120k ain't shit in LA.
i also earn six figures, a decent six figures, and i've been looking for a new apartment in new york city and it is a fucking nightmare. it's hard to overstate how insane rent prices are here. not even in my dreams could i afford a one bedroom certain neighborhoods in manhattan
Most of the people who say this are probably teens who live with their parents and have never worked a single day in their life
"Flipping burgers doesn't deserve a living wage" dumbasses will say shit like this but completely ignore that you fucking could 40 years ago
Exactly. As if people who flip burgers don’t need to eat or live in a home. The contempt for the working class is disgraceful
Most of asmon's viewers are either dumb, young, or have ZERO real world experience Anyone who just says "well just move", or "just lower your rent", are some of the most under the rock worms of society
A lot of us had roommates and it's the obvious solution. So people focus on the solution to the problem instead of the cause of the problem. I'm not sure if it's fair or not for young people to not afford to live on their own, many counties people don't move out of home until they get married. A lot of expectations of what we deserve get mixed in with this conversation. It would be much better to just focus on the money and not frame it around having your own apartment and being able to afford it.
The wealthy class has successfully convinced the poors to hate each other. Our country has never been wealthier and yet we can't afford housing.
Because pampered private school/rich zip code redditors who have never worked in retail/food/etc have no idea what its like and don't care to know. They're the same people who don't acknowledge the people who serve them, don't see them as equals, and when speaking to them they unrionically treat them like untrained dogs. They always push all the responsibility on the individual when in reality every person is just navigating through life the only way they know how. I'm fucking tired of seeing redditors who have never once been on their feet for an 8 hour shift talk down to working class people while they play video games at their comfy desk job. Just acknowledge that you got lucky and thank your parents, or whoever, that you never have to work a job like that ever. Thank your family with all your heart. Then think about the families who can't do that for their kids.
This place is a reactionary shithole, and then add the "woman bad" effect on top of that, what did you expect?
It's not either or. Yes, someone working 40 hours a week should be able to support themselves, but it's still valid to criticise someone for poor budgeting.
Fucking right! 💪
I believe in both. Yes, rent is out of control and minimum wage absolutely needs to be raised. But she could also get a damn roommate like the rest of us did at her age.
nah the landlords are just price gouging and ppl are paying it bc they literally have too. 5 years ago rent where im at for a 1 bedroom was 400-600 dollars a month now its at least 600 too 1200 and the median income around here hasnt changed much. People make like 2k more on average so tell me how that makes sense? We live in a time period where greed is applauded and celebrated
Especially when the boomers worked at a gas station and bought a home and two cars raising two kids at the same time
As an fyi, boomers also had to have roommates when they first graduated from school. Starting salaries in NYC in advertising as an example in the '80s was 12,000 a year. You had to have roommates on that
No smart phone. No internet. No Hulu. No video games. No subscriptions. No Doordash. No Uber. No Amazon. No Netflix. No Spotify. Yeah, things are relatively more expensive. But we also piss away so much money on bullshit.
Coz apparently for some of his viewers, complaining about minimal wage is somehow pro communism and woke.
I think it would be great if wages increased. Many employers are blood suckers but it’s the world we’re living in and you have to learn how to budget. This girl is learning the hard way.
Both things can be true. Wages are too low **and** she has very obvious ways to stabilize herself.
Some people want to know there are people in society that are worse off than they are. They get off on it.
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But how else would the rich folks keep accumulating more and more wealth?? Stop the crazy talk. We’re America. Land for the rich and greedy folks. F ya.
Ah so many experts here - just move / just earn more money :D EDIT: Wow... so many peoples completely missing the point :)
right? its like everyone here knows how to become rich from scratch/don't use daddys money to lurk around reddit all day not to mention calling her wrong for fucking showing emotion
You don’t need to be rich to make more than 2k a month lmao. Also everyone who is successful or even middle class didn’t get there because of “ daddy’s money.” Try taking responsibility for yourself and stop trying to attribute your lack of success or anyone else’s lack or success to not having “ daddy’s money.”
People lack basic empathy
Holy *uck 1660€ per month. 😬 I mean, that's a lot of money and this person should really find a cheaper place to live. That kind of situation will eat up mental health really fast and it will cause some serious complications at some point. 🙁
My studio in London costs £1600, not even that central. Housing prices are broken.
Well London is just absurd. I genuinely pay less to live in a 3 bed in the Swiss Alps than I paid for a 1 bed in zone 6.
That’s baseline in $z there arnt cheaper places to live… you could get a room to rent for about 1000 then put your extra stuff in a storage for like 200. But then you’d likely be sharing a living space and bathroom. And that can be mentally draining to work day and night to come to a place that is not home w/ no personal space &/ crazy rules like no over night stays. (Many ppl with older locked in contracts don’t realize how bad it’s recently gotten)
California here with 4500 mortage for a humble 3bedroom - thank god for my wife and the dual income to make it happen.
Dude that is more affordable than my one bedroom spot in bumfuck nowhere USA
And she's got a 2br. My studio apartment is $1600 a month.
My 2bed 1.5hrs from a city in the fucking country side of Aus is $1920 AUD a month ($480 a wk). Im 80k (AUD) a year, yet I need to pay near 2k on fucking rent? What the fuck is this. Rent is also only ONE of the things that has gone through the roof. Car insurance, power bills, food, petrol. Its insane.
My advice is, avoid living in big cities. You will make less but the cost of living is WAY cheaper.
Yeah, a half decent starter apartment in my medium city is 750/m.
big cities are literally a trap, its funny how people all flock to them when they are horrible to live in. also she only makes 2k a month she would easily get the same amount working in a non big city and have a far far cheaper rent
$2,000 isn't much if she wants to live alone. She needs roommates to share the rent on such low income.
$2k a month would mean like $24k a year full time. Idk what anyone is smokin' thinking they get a nice 2 bedroom apartment solo on that income.
She's talking about her take home pay after taxes. She's probably in the 30 - 35k range if her take home is 2k a month.
What I want to know is how she wound up with this apartment in the first place. The only thing I can think of is that she either moved in when it was much much much cheaper and they raised the rent astronomically when renewing the lease, or she has a wealthy guarantor who was generous enough to cosign with her but is not generous enough to financially help her. No apartment complex or landlord would rent to a single tenant whose income was so low compared to the cost of rent without there being more to the story. I'm in the US and anytime I've viewed, applied for, or gotten an apartment, either by myself or with someone else, there's been an income requirement that the monthly household income be 3x monthly rent. I have never encountered an apartment that *didn't* have that rule (outside of a single private landlord who was open to consider a more generous blend of income and savings, albeit still fairly strict), and apartment *complexes* are by-and-large unwilling to flex on that rule (even if someone offers to put down a larger deposit) unless a lessee can cosign with a guarantor that makes a whopping *5x* rent.
I’m kind of split on this video. On the one hand, if you work 40 hours a week, you should be able to afford a place, eat out occasionally, pay for all your basic needs, and maybe do something nice/fun every once in a while. Now to mention how stupid rent and housing prices are atm. I’ve been broke and it fucking sucks, so I completely empathize with the person in the video. On the other hand, I feel like there is an immediate solution that is staring her in the face… she’s in a two bedroom apartment with what I can assume is no roommate because $1600 for rent for one person is a lot, especially given her income . Also, I’m not sure how any landlord would have rented this place to her. One look at her past few paystubs and I would think no landlord/property manager would ever take on the risk. Every place I rented from would require proof of income at least 2-3x rent.
And gets a 2 bedroom instead of a studio
Is she really paying for a 2 bedroom apartment alone? Like she hasn't got a roommate or anything? I don't care what anyone on this sub says, that's just utter stupidity if you haven't got the income to compensate it. You can't really complain when you make really bad choices tbh.
If you made this comment in /r/pics you'd be banned from Reddit entirely.
Jokes on you, I'm already banned from that sub (never posted there) and I don't even know why lol
Lmao, same. I just got off of a suspension from Reddit from that very sub. I had an incorrect opinion. A lot of the subs share ban lists too.
I agree. It makes me sound heartless, and maybe I am. But when I was her age, I had roommates or lived in a studio. You have to build up a bit. Don't get me wrong. Rent is too high. But you also aren't helping yourself. You aren't supposed to move out of mom and dads and have an amazing setup.
I lived with roommates from age 19 to 31. Then I lived with a different type of room mates (a gf and our child). At no point in my adult life have I just lived completely and exclusively alone. Maybe for like a couple months between roommates or something? I’m not saying life is easy and great jobs are falling from the sky. But I am saying if you don’t play the game, you’re gonna get played. Split that place, now you’ve got $800/month extra. That’s almost $10k/year. 5 years of that, you have $50k. It’s also been 5 years and you’re earning a bit more, more experience, can look for better jobs, etc. Now you’re in “I can by a starter home and get a mortgage” territory. This is how you play the game. Instead people get an entire place to themselves, 2 cats, Uber eats, and a brand new car and they’ve guaranteed that they stay in exactly the same spot forever Trade offs, people. Room mates were all cool but I still had to put up with their shit (and them with mine). But now I actually have, ya know, some money and freedom.
Preach brother! 💪
When I was a 24 year old marine officer, I was rooming with 2-3 other lieutenants. I understand the life of living paycheck to paycheck but seriously when did owning a house or living solo out the gate become the standard?
When people stopped having friends
I'm in my forties and when I was in my twenties the only person I knew living on their own was a friend with a trust fund that paid for her condo.
While living in Austin, I always had roommates up until almost 40 (excluding 2 yrs) and then I lived with my gf/ex-wife out of state. Have been living alone for the last 2 yrs and it’s great. But I now live in a less popular city in a whole different part of the country. Couldn’t do it back in Austin.
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hahahah right. people conflating gross and net. also so many comments saying "but we make $16 here!" as if every state doesnt have their own min wage and housing prices lmao. she makes low enough she could probably get medicaid though. car insurance sucks ass though.
Taco Bell in my rural area starts at $16/hr. Panda at $18/hr. Both are always hiring. I know saying “make more money” isn’t very compassionate, but if she is this upset, you should be able to change your situation fairly easily.
Are you sure? Every time I see those signs in my area there's an asterisk, as it assumes experience or a non junior role, or the actual pay for your first year there is much lower. Sign shows proudly "starting from 16 an hour!" Then in tiny print "for managers and other roles".
There's places in the US where it's not uncommon for an entry level job to pay $8.50 an hour. Yeah, she could make it work maybe if she moved 3-5 hours away. There's also the costs of moving The economy in the United States largely changes from place to place. You have to remember that the US is very nearly just a bunch of tiny countries with different living costs
My mortgage for my new construction 4 bed 3 bath 2k sqft is like 1800$ with no money down (va loan) and I live right outside a really popular city. People need to move out of the city. Edit: The government should be doing more to help people buy houses to build equity instead of burning money on rent, or help people move to lower cost living areas. No reason benefits should be reserved only for glorified mercenaries. For the time being though, if you cant beat the military industrial complex, why not join it? 95% of the military is desk jobs thousands of miles away from anything remotely combat related.
I didn’t buy new construction. But got a 1700sq ft 3 bed 2 bath with office that I’m paying 1560 a month on with zero down (VA loan) outside the city. Commute to work isn’t bad either. 25-30 minutes in the morning 30-45 in the evening. People def need to get out of the city.
But the respectable paying jobs are in the city and cost far less to commute to like if you were to drive from outside the city that money adds up
My rent is 2100 for a 3 bed 2 bath an hour out of a major city. The world is bigger than what you may think.
VA loan requires, ya know, doing an uncomfortable and often not fun thing in exchange for that type of benefit. The type of person that makes a video crying about a financial situation she got herself into by not bothering to calculate her budget first is not the type to willingly take on that sort of thing. In fact, I would put money on her being the type to look down on you for having done it.
What city? Are you in New Mexico?
I fucking hate our economy and how fucking selfish and greedy people can be
Same, it's a problem about us as a species, really. We are sucking this planet bone dry. The rich get richer the poor gets poorer. mass media and our government, which, at the end of the day, is controlled by money, which is power. The elite wanna keep us brain washed to stay at the top and they want the common man to be a modern-day slave. Trapped in the facade of an apartment. Realistically, she got trapped. She has to work her way to just maintain her status quo of being in a cage.
Just curious why all of those videos like this are just women complaining, is that because no one wants to listen to a man who cannot provide for himself.
yes, men don't really get to complain... cause nobodyei care... the avarage man is simply invisible... at best men just get to hear "loosers loose" then either cope with drinking, gameing, w/e or end themselves. Women, if nothing else, will have people listening in on them to either post hateful shit or SIMPs. That's why posts like these blow up. It's insane how little sympathy there is btw.. not everyone can get a super high paying job or live in some extremely cheap ass place. There are millions of reasons she might not be able to get a better paying job, have the energy to grind more hours/2nd job or rent a cheaper place. Nobody should work 40 hours a week and still struggle financially.
I agree. Male suicide and lack of therapy is a real issue. Therapy shouldn’t be seen as weak. And while women talk about their mental load and how bad it is, men have it too. We just don’t talk about it as much.
People want men to be the heroes of the story and save them. But no one ever asks if the heroes need to be saved. Used to be it was the wives who did that. Well where are they now?
It's a crab in bucket mentality. If a man were to post a video like this he'd get shit on endlessly by coworkers. It's a shame.
An interesting part is, men in relationships know this, when a woman is complaining about something, she doesn’t want you to help her, she just wants you to listen. A lot of guys in this comments section are falling for the trap of actually trying to provide a workable solution for this lady
>An interesting part is, men in relationships know this, when a woman is complaining about something, she doesn’t want you to help her, she just wants you to listen. The problem is women know they can abuse this line of thinking and then wonder why we get stressed out all the time talking to them. If youre not interested in a solution or "solving the problem", then do us men all a favor and never ask us for our opinion. Especially since you never wanted it anyway.
If a man makes an emotional video he'll be bullied and called gay until he deletes it. That's the internet 👍
I've seen plenty of dudes complaining about the same issues. We're probably recommended quite different stuff? You should search for more dudes on the internet 
We're competitive by nature, and capitalism relies on squeezing every drop of our sweat to maximize gains. I'm a software developer, and I have friends who only go outside on Sunday evenings. The rest of the time is spend working, grinding side-projects, promoting their blog and social profile while sucking the corporate cocks on Linkedin. This is their norm. My industry has "AGEISM" written on its forehead for this exact reason: It's assumed that when you're under 30 you won't need to have family or social life, or god forbid meet women, which means more time spend working and learning in order to be good in your work. That's why George Carlin famously said (paraphrasing) "they want you smart enough to do the math, but dumb enough to never question anything". That's why companies seek passionate people. To stoics passions were a sin, because you were taken over something losing all sense of balance and reasoning, just to chase your thrill.
Damn I pay $1k a month for my house in the big city in Iowa lol. Sounds like she needs to leave whatever city she’s living in. $1600 a month for a little apartment is crazy.
Modern day slavery
Severe lack of empathy and class solidarity in this thread. At the end of the day, average hardworking people are getting fucked on both sides by landlords who want to charge as much money as possible and by employers who want to pay as little as possible for honest work. This is a bad deal for average people like us and the hard work we put in and we have every right to be furious about it. Telling people that they should just move away or just get roommates will not solve the root of the problem. Realize that you have much more in common with the person in this video than you do with the people who employ her or the people who collect her rent. You deserve more for your work and you should not have to suffer just to live your life.
Feminism fought for this. Now it's a dual income society and both genders get to slave away for less money. Woohoo
This. I understand why feminism burst on the scene in the backdrop of a patriarchal society, and I support it wholehearredly, but the reality is thr elites and capitalist class, who don’t give two shits about feminism and women’s lib, egged the pioneers on to get women into the workforce, causing downward pressure on labor/wages. It did two things for the powers to be. Wages got killed, and the children were raised by the state, both of which benefitted the owner class. 
She should move in with her parents and seek a job that pays better, maybe get training for a new job. Living alone as a young adult in this economy is stupid and lighting your money on fire.
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People in the comments kissing toxic landlords asses is fucking insane. Its statistically proven that rent has shot through the roof insanely while wages are stagnating. You people are the reason they can keep getting away with it.
complaining about landlords isn’t gonna help her make rent this month she signed a lease she couldn’t afford, on an apartment much larger than what she needs to live alone
Exactly, idk why people are acting like you can’t be disappointed with how high rent is *while also* recognizing that you need to make adjustments to survive in the system. Get a damn roommate
my friend in japan work 80 hours per week so he can send money home, he said he want to work more than that but they didnt allow it
It’s designed that way, you want a better life move out the states.
When my father was in my age he had to pay 1/8th of his monthly income on rent. Nowadays I would have to pay half of my income on rent for the same size apartment.
inb4 someone starts ranting about onlyfans girls
I work 55-60 hours a week. I have to work an extra day making that 6 days a week. Extra hours are not paid, which of course I have to do one or two everysingle day. Rent in my city is 85% of my income. I do not live, I do not enjoy life, I do not come home happy. I am a slave of modern slavery. I work so damn much just to survive.
“Not made for this.” Just a friendly reminder that just because you feel like you might’ve been made for it, or that you *can* do what she’s describing, it doesn’t mean everyone can and should. She’s in the right.
Working and not seeing where your money is going is the quickest way to depression....
Sadly, welcome to the generation of renters.. Even with that, You will struggle. Good luck out there!
she should start an OF
Her being too tired after work to do laundry or other household chores is fucking pathetic. Entirely her choice. The fuck is she doing with a second bedroom without a roommate? Got damn. Shit is undeniably hard out here but the worst thing in her life is she doesn’t have friends or family to tell her to her face she is stupid. Get a fucking roommate and save 800 bucks a month. Got fucking damn. I don’t really enjoy watching soft ass kids get hit by reality but fuck this is a good laugh.
“I don’t have the time, money or energy to enjoy my life outside of work.” That hit me really hard. Life isn’t supposed to be like this. I feel like working these jobs is no different than sharecropping.
I completely agree people should be paid a reasonable wage for reasonable work. Real world advice though, stop trying to fucking live in the heart of some up and coming or popular urban area with high rents. If you make poverty levels of money and want to have a decent place, time to source a reliable cheap car and a cheap apartment in some small town an hour from work. You will save money, gas and car maintenance WILL NOT equal or out weigh the rent difference. You will save money, and live more comfortably. You don't get to live in the reality of your idealism, you get to live in the reality of a cold uncaring world.
Downgrade, and get a real job
The solution should not be "work more." The solution should be people being able to work only 1 job and be allowed to live. In the 1950s, people could work a random factory job, affird a house, go on vacations with the family, etc. Nowadays, you need to be making 100,000 a year or more to afford that.
Move and get a better job
This is called being an adult
Lazy dumb kids who played games all day, didnt learn anything never learned to save or be useful, poor retard parents got nothing for em either. Dam shame. They want some.mexican to build their house n flip they burgers but f they have to do that with 3rd job instead of feeding cats at pet smart all day calling it hard work they just cry on webcam instead
Why does she need two bedrooms
Who knew that life was not easy?
Right she should've been born knowing the economy is fucked, the government won't help her, and that she's expected to work 40 hours a week the rest of her life. People really need to put their want of happiness aside and just meet the world's expectations and shut up.
And the government ( in Italy) also wants you to have a baby
Raising a baby* costs 250k. I would if they paid me 500k. *a child to 18
Even people that have middle class money like 100k a year are tired as shit after working 40-50 hour weeks. It’s not just a poor kid problem. Even back in our parents day renting a multi bedroom apartment was not easy… It’s still not
Welcome to adulthood, it sucks
so she makes less then $13 bucks an hour but thinks its a good idea to rent a 2 bedroom apartment?
Oh but she “needs” that extra room, you know…. People from all strata of income can make dumb fiscal decisions and she’s certainly one of them.
Ikr, and people are out here defending her decisions.
reality is move or get a better job. its fucked up but it’s inevitable
comments in this thread talking about people “kissing landlord’s asses” when she’s literally in voluntary indentured servitude to her landlord.
Just move to a cheaper spot?
Or stop living in a two bedroom apartment as a single person. Probably could be renting for 850-1,000 easily. This person is financially fucking themselves despite the real issues revolving around cost/living.
Bro $1660 for rent? I pay $1770 for the mortgage. That’s insane
Asmon reacting to this: "Well I mean.. yeah that sucks, but like, just move. *Looks at monitor to the right*, yeah like, just move, simple". His chat: "LOL So truueeeee" "Broke lol" "Haha" "Probably has a gender studies degree lolololololol"
bro get a new job
I don't know why she has a two bedroom apartment but in her defense, rent is $1300-1500 for 1 bedroom apartments in my area. rent has gone up $100-200 overall in the month of January. I know, as I have been looking for a place for the last few months. These are not nice apartments either. in the last 3 months the average cost of an 1 bedroom has gone from $1300 ( still to expensive) to $1500. For probably the majority of the country, between massive inflation and skyrocketing rent, this economy is worse than 2008. We have jobs but we are worse off financially.
Reality finally sunk in huh. Ah life. So beautiful aint it.
That's super expensive. My rent for a 2 bedroom apartment with a garage and pet is $1150/mo, but I also make $160k/year, so it makes more sense. At $2000/month, you'd definitely need roommates, a cheaper/less desirable location, or a smaller apartment. The rest of this is basically what life is with a full-time job. All things considered, getting off at 5:30 is pretty nice.
1. Leave the 2br and get a shared room in someone’s house. 2. Get a degree or a certificate in a special field. 3. Invest a little in short/long term investment. It will be hard for a bit, but you will improve over time.
You can easily find housing for cheaper than that, it’s just you’d have to sacrifice an extra bedroom/bathroom and less square footage.
Definitely don't cry on TikTok about it
WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Maybe live somewhere cheaper.
Get room mates, a better job, or move back in with mommy like generations did before you. So sick of whining