Yes, niralth just made a really similar point in a comment below, saying that we both live in expensive urban areas (and you do too, right?) Housing alone is huge and provides a lot of the levels I'm talking about. So, for instance, there's scraping by in Chicago in your condo, scraping by in Chicago with renting out one of those bedrooms, scraping by and renting, and then scraping by somewhere else. So you're scraping by, but that's because you're clinging to living in a great place with lots of of privacy and square feet, on the grand scale of things.
(We are doing the same, except splitting that 2br, 1ba condo, which does make a huge difference.)
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Date: 2009-01-27 05:27 pm (UTC)(We are doing the same, except splitting that 2br, 1ba condo, which does make a huge difference.)