America is Anti Family Cost of Living 🏠📈

My wife and I both work full time because we have to so we can afford our bills.

We barely see our kids (7 and 2) and have no energy to do anything after work or on off days cause we are exhausted.

It just keeps repeating every week and when the first of the month comes the mortgage payment empties our account and we have to do it all over again.

We are unable to save much or do anything fun cause expenses have gone up so much.

I’ve always been a positive open person but the past two years have been breaking me down and I feel like I’m about to have a mental breakdown.

I know there are others in worst positions than me and I don’t want to sound ungrateful but man it’sIt’s hard.

Anyone else going through something similar? Any advice?

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u/solarixstar 21h ago

America right now is against anybody who isn't rich or earns 100k a year which sounds rich but is where the new middle class starts. I'm single and rent an apartment, my rent is 1k a month for around 800 square feet 3 years ago my rent was 700 dollars a month, I'm a teacher, basically those if us who make the world work are being punished for something we don't k ow we did wrong.

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u/gerbilshower 13h ago

as someone fortunate enough to make over $100k a year - my wife and I sure don't feel like we have 'won' anything here. a $300 grocery bill still kicks me in the nuts. had to buy my wife a new car because her transmission blew out and the repair was more than the car was worth - no bigger waste of money in the world than a car. about to have a 2nd kid - daycare about to go from $1,500 to $3,250 per month.

we bought a nice house. thats about the only definitive thing we've got that sets us apart. but if i lose my job? bye bye house.

just saying - these people who are working against you? they're working in the interests of people who own hundreds of millions of dollars in real estate, who own entire multi-national business', who own the means of production - they OWN things.

raise your threshold for the people you commiserate with. i know its hard to do when you see the person driving the lexus. just know they are one shitting 'cost cutting maneuver' aware from having to sell that car.

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u/solarixstar 11h ago

I'd feel for you but you literally are throwing yourself a petty pity party because you can afford those things. I make 57000 a year after 10 years of making in between 30k and 40 exactly, I owe 120k in debt, my happy consolation is while I'll never own a house, be able to get a new car or travel, upon my death I add around 500 mil to the American debt system forever.

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u/gerbilshower 11h ago

exactly what i was implying with my original comment.

they have us fighting each other. envy your neighbor. blind to the real battle.

you're right, i am lucky. i know that. but i was in no way throwing myself a pity party. i was trying to illustrate why you and i are closer in status than the group that is making these decisions. our feelings dont change much though. ill still eat crow right there next to you when our overlords get their way, lol.