• anon_8675309@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Oh good grief. Okay so if childcare should be no more than 7 percent then if you pay 1200 per month you should make $200k. This doesn’t mean that if you have two kids and pay $2400 per month you need to make $400k. That math ain’t mathing. Not everything else goes up.

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      12 hours ago

      Right, we are to assume that basically everyone with children is bankrupt now? I don’t think that is the case.

      Costs vary widely across the vast nation. Not making anywhere near 400k here and doing fine.

      • OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world
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        3 hours ago

        For some reason the benchmark is always the highest cost of living cities in America.

        Maybe the ones obsessed with making it to the top in those cities are the most vocal online. I don’t know but it’s weird how that is.