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Originally posted by 12clicks
when your country is rich, 21k looks poor. 
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Well, if you're single and making under $21k after living costs, health care alone you're fucking poor!
To live comfortably in the U.S. a single person in a metropolitan area has to bring home AFTER taxes $50k. That's giving that most decent apartments in a city are gonna be $2k a month easy. Add to that the other high end expenses of living in a city that's comfortable.
Here in LA you can get by on $40k after taxes IF you get a decent car without ridiculous payments. A decent apartment in a good neighborhood is gonna cost you around $2k. So that's $24k a year to have a place to live without gangsters and perverts on your front door.
Wait. $40k in LA is not nearly enough. Let's make that $60k AFTER taxes.