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What does it cost you to live per day?

How much does it cost you to live per day?

  • Total voters
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Threegoofs said:
Hmmmm. I calculated I spend $30 per day in property taxes alone.
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You don't need $10,950 in property taxes to live. A lot of people don't even make $10,950 per year and they don't die.
 
AliHajiSheik said:
Looks like a few people don't know how to allocate their monthly and yearly expenses to each day's expenses. If your rent is $600/month, then that allocates to $20/day.
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Millions of people live without paying rent. 3.5 billion people on this planet live on less than $2 per day. Americans have a perverted view of what living means. Even America's poor lives like royalty.
 
mike2810 said:
The poll question is way to open ended. It is meaningless., imo.
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This poll brings to light the truth. The truth makes many people uncomfortable. Telling the truth is fun because it pisses people off.
 
DVSentinel said:
You don't work 30+ hours a week, plus school. Pay for your own clothes, car, gas, insurance and lunch? My God, what kind of kids are we raising today? I tell you, kids these days have it so easy.
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Hire him for $100,000 per year then see how lazy he is. Old people these days are so selfish and greedy. They don't want to hire anybody to work for them. They just want to keep all of their money instead of creating a better world. What kind of scum were they raising back in the day? Geez!
 
Robbie Loucks said:
I assumed that we were talking about excludable goods, oh well. Anyways, I've probably costed about $15 dollars by now. (At the most)
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Don't listen to DVSentinel. He thinks the world works the same as it did when he was 15. He will never listen to anything you say. Ignore him.

The only thing that stays the same is that everything changes.
 
winston53660 said:
Someone pays it though. Be afraid very afraid of adulthood BWAAAAHAHAHA.


Nah its really not that bad its about the same as being a kid when ya get the responsibility thing figured out.
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I'm 35 years old. Life was much easier when I was 18-25 years old than it is for an 18-25 year old today. I disregard any insult to today's youth. Life isn't as good for them as it was for previous generations. When I reached adulthood all of my peers got jobs even the pot heads. I still think the pot heads were irresponsible dirt bags but they still got jobs.

I don't believe for one second that 18 year olds today have a lesser work ethic than they did 17, 30, 40 or 50 years ago. That is so arrogant to believe such stupidity. Young kids today don't have jobs because the jobs don't exist. The jobs are in China, Bangladesh and India. It's not that easy for someone to move to these countries. I don't even know if these countries accept immigrants.
 
vasuderatorrent said:
You don't need $10,950 in property taxes to live. A lot of people don't even make $10,950 per year and they don't die.
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Was that the question? How little does it take to live?

Then the answer is zero. At least for a couple weeks.
 
Threegoofs said:
Was that the question? How little does it take to live?

Then the answer is zero. At least for a couple weeks.
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If you have a couple of empty credit cards you can live much longer than a couple of weeks on zero. ;)
 
Threegoofs said:
Hmmmm. I calculated I spend $30 per day in property taxes alone.
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I live in North Carolina. In my county property taxes are 58 cents per $100 of valuation. That would mean that you own $1,887,931.03 worth of property.

Why am I not crying?
 
vasuderatorrent said:
I live in North Carolina. In my county property taxes are 58 cents per $100 of valuation. That would mean that you own $1,887,931.03 worth of property.

Why am I not crying?
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Why would you assume anyone wants you to cry?
 
vasuderatorrent said:
I live in North Carolina. In my county property taxes are 58 cents per $100 of valuation. That would mean that you own $1,887,931.03 worth of property.

Why am I not crying?
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Perhaps a better way to look at it is what percent of your gross income goes to RE taxes? Mine is about 3%.
 
Robbie Loucks said:
I assumed that we were talking about excludable goods, oh well. Anyways, I've probably costed about $15 dollars by now. (At the most)
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Try to find a room to rent, adding in utilities, cable/internet for $15/day ($450/month). Obviously you count only what you "feel" that you add to the living expenses of others (that actually pay the bills). Rest assured that living "on your own" would cost about $50/day but that two people can live nearly as cheaply as one with only a slight increase in utilities, clothing and food. Of course, if you have a major expense such as needing to replace the car or paying a huge medical bill that will likely take years to pay off - thus the need for savings.
 
GottaGo said:
Perhaps a better way to look at it is what percent of your gross income goes to RE taxes? Mine is about 3%.
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My property taxes last year were are $466.83 per year. My income was $15,832.92. My wife's income was $13,504.81. My real estate taxes were 2.9484% of my income. My real estate taxes were 1.5912% of my household income.

Are you suggesting that threegoofs income is $365,000 per year? I'm not sure what you are getting at. :confused:
 
vasuderatorrent said:
I live in North Carolina. In my county property taxes are 58 cents per $100 of valuation. That would mean that you own $1,887,931.03 worth of property.

Why am I not crying?
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In some parts of the country $10k in property taxes even on a rather modest home is normal.
 
vasuderatorrent said:
Hire him for $100,000 per year then see how lazy he is. Old people these days are so selfish and greedy. They don't want to hire anybody to work for them. They just want to keep all of their money instead of creating a better world. What kind of scum were they raising back in the day? Geez!
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LOL, you actually took that as a serious comment?

Sure, I'll hire him, just tell me where I'm supposed to get the $100,000 per year with an annual taxable income of around $26,000 per year.
 
vasuderatorrent said:
Hire him for $100,000 per year then see how lazy he is. Old people these days are so selfish and greedy. They don't want to hire anybody to work for them. They just want to keep all of their money instead of creating a better world. What kind of scum were they raising back in the day? Geez!
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The world is pretty much like it was when I was 15. The economy on the edge, doing poorly with a worthless piece-of-**** in the white house. Ok, so today, it's a bit better, the Reps control the house unlike the congress we had under Carter.
 
vasuderatorrent said:
Millions of people live without paying rent. 3.5 billion people on this planet live on less than $2 per day. Americans have a perverted view of what living means. Even America's poor lives like royalty.
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But do those same millions of people live without paying taxes of any kind? As for what you think is perverted, I really don't care.
 
House is paid for
Expenses on most expensive first order:

Gasoline
School Loan payment
Credit card payments
Property taxes
Natural Gas bills
Auto insurances
Food costs
Telephone bill
Electric bill
Vehicle maintenance
Internet bill

I do race a dirt track car in the summers, but it is covered by sponsorship.
I buy/sell antiques/coins but it is a break even deal with equity in the future.
 
vasuderatorrent said:
Millions of people live without paying rent. 3.5 billion people on this planet live on less than $2 per day. Americans have a perverted view of what living means. Even America's poor lives like royalty.
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You are free to move from the USA.
In your comparison of some living on $2/day, what does a dollar buy in those countries?

What is your point of your post?
 
vasuderatorrent said:
My property taxes last year were are $466.83 per year. My income was $15,832.92. My wife's income was $13,504.81. My real estate taxes were 2.9484% of my income. My real estate taxes were 1.5912% of my household income.

Are you suggesting that threegoofs income is $365,000 per year? I'm not sure what you are getting at. :confused:
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My point was more along the lines of what someone (by percentage of income) is willing to spend to live in a certain area. The cost of 'living' in a certain area can eat up your income rather quickly if you don't look at it realistically based on percentages.

I wasn't so much debating with you, as suggesting an alternate method of considering what one's 'cost of living' really is.
 
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