• AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    You can basically half American salary numbers because we have to pay for a lot of stuff that Europeans usually don’t need to pay for. $57k in America is struggling if you live in a city. Anything below $40k is one car repair away from being financially ruined.

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        1 year ago

        We don’t have public transit, so we need cars… It’s part of what makes us poor…

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        1 year ago

        You are correct. We are forced to have them though. There’s no mass transit and everything is two hours away on foot. Most new cars now are $40k unless you get like a base Sentra but the median income is only $60k.