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Magic Kingdom worker makes $13.02 an hour, worked there for 17 years, lives in hotel (https://chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=308875)

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Originally Posted by Bearcat (Post 12968345)

I was, if they're paying $1000/month for a motel room and there are apartments for $750-800, utilities and a phone might not even be $1000/month (I assume the A/C is on all the freakin time though, but when I lived in an apartment, my utilities weren't more than maybe $100/month).

I probably came off more "I know what's better for you after reading an article" than I meant in that post, but no, $26k isn't poverty. This article shows how ridiculous that statement is...

I'd have to assume people in poverty don't give a shit about phone or internet or TV. I know people in KC making $10-12/hour while raising kids alone, which is a small miracle... but, in KC you can also find cheap apartments for like $500/month.

And if this cost of living comparison is accurate....
http://www.bestplaces.net/cost-of-li...-park-ks/70000

...I'd really question your definition of scraping by.

Rhode island is a tax haven. I pay 4500 a year in property tax, 5000 a year in federal tax, 2200 a year in rhode island income tax, 1800 a year in vehicle tax (they tax your cars every year, even though you paid tax when you bought the car) 500 a year in sewer tax, 1400 a year in TDI tax, 700 a year in unemployment tax, not to mention 7% sales tax on anything i buy in state. There are alot of smaller taxes that i am leaving out as to not seem like i am grasping at straws here. But I am also married with a 3rd child on the way, I am not single.

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Originally Posted by rockymtnchief (Post 12967793)

I used to think the same until I looked it up when I bought my house four years ago. Montana is about in the middle of the road on property taxes (tied at 19th lowest at 0.85%). However, tax on licensing a vehicle seems high to me after living in other states.
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I really need to get out of Nebraska

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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud (Post 12967710)

Nope

You are 100% wrong and I am a perfect example of how I have managed to rent great places for a fraction of the price of weekly hotels. :clap:

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Originally Posted by BigRichard (Post 12969183)

I really need to get out of Nebraska

Have you considered Illinois?

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Originally Posted by scho63 (Post 12971849)

You are 100% wrong and I am a perfect example of how I have managed to rent great places for a fraction of the price of weekly hotels. :clap:

You may be right for certain parts of the country but dude, in LA, motels aren't cheap and they're occupied by hookers and drug addicts.

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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud (Post 12971865)

You may be right for certain parts of the country but dude, in LA, motels aren't cheap and they're occupied by hookers and drug addicts.

But the hookers aren't as conveniently located in an apartment.

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Originally Posted by BigRichard (Post 12969183)

I really need to get out of Nebraska

Wisconsin isn't much better but at least they have cheese curds and killer bike trails.

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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud (Post 12971865)

You may be right for certain parts of the country but dude, in LA, motels aren't cheap and they're occupied by hookers and drug addicts.

Then they are right up his alley. Haven't you read his posts?

Didn't read the whole thread, Disney makes the wages, operations costs and utilities money within the first 15 minutes of opening for the day. It's about the same as Walmart.

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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud (Post 12967251)

LMAO

A one bedroom shitty apartment in Hollywood is $2,000 per month.

A one bedroom shitty apartment in San Fran is $4,000-5,000 per month and close to the same in Mountain View. They are blowing the lid off of rents out there, it's thickening. :D

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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990 (Post 12967156)

Good point. I'll bet he's happier than the story makes him out to be. Some people just have a very low wage ceiling in life. And that's ok.

Easy, Judge Smails ROFL:

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