Here in the midwest 40k is quite a bit and more than average. Right now my wife and I if we made exactly what we have made the last month or so would make 40k/year, but I am just restarting my online biz and hopefully that number will go up quite a bit quickly. I am perfectly happy with the way I am living my live at this point in time. Granted you aint gonna be driving around sports cars, or in our case even a new car period, and thats just because of my personal preferance to not have a carpayment, but I guess I am just not a materialistic person and dont need all that stuff to be happy.
I have my wife, daughter, and in around 5-6 weeks I will have a son, the 2 dogs, we own our home with an insanely small mortgage payment (350/month because I was able to put a large chunk down 4 years ago), yes we drive 2 old cars that look like shit, but they run great and are comfortable. Even though we aint gonna set the world on fire with outrageous possessions and trips to exotic places we have all we need and then some.
My simple life is a good life
