Re: For the ladies
aaaaand you totally missed the point.
I put health insurance in there. The sense I get from the thread is we’re talking about a “roof over your head” and “food”. $15k covers that anywhere in the US. You might not get a beautiful suburban mansion or gourmet food cooked by five star chefs, but you’ll live with a roof and food. If you’re earning $16k, your earning $1k more than you really need, so in my book, yea your living large. $1k larger than the $15k guy, who is getting along just fine too, just not living it up.
What country do you live in?
For a family of 2, 15K isn’t even the poverty level in most states in the US!http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/data/threshld/index.html http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/09poverty.shtml
Now before you go accusing people of wanting to live large, nobody wants to “just get by” and live in utter poverty. Most people do have standards of living!