this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2025
462 points (93.4% liked)

Greentext

5952 readers
1094 users here now

This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

Be warned:

If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Home depot is the most depressing of hardware stores. I wouldn't want to work there even if what this fake ass post says is true.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Also $17/hr is shit pay. You can't even rent an apartment at $17/hr.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm renting an apartment at $16 move to a better area.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Surely they need to move to a shitter area.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago

Assuming lower cost of living means shittier is very home country of you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Depends on your area.

Edit: working a full 40hr/wk at $17/hr can afford rent up to ~$880/mo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

$880 is how much people pay for a bedroom in someones else's house in my city.

*This is mostly because the zoning laws require all new apartment complexes to have one parking space per tenant which means land owners who want to develop their land to provide more density have to put in an underground parking garage on their lot which would make recouping the cost of development pretty much impossible (there's no room for surface lots). My city is almost entirely zoned this way which creates situations where the university is fully surrounded by single family homes that are "renovated" to provide jury rigged density.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thats something like 50 percent of your pay in my area.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

$17/hr can afford ~$880/mo. rent. Not impossible, especially with a roommate or domestic partner.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You forgot about other things like food, probably a car, phone bill.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I did not. I calculated rent as 30% of income, the level generally considered affordable. Admittedly it is pre-tax income, so arguably the number is a bit lower, but it's a start.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I did it by after tax cause thats how people actually live.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago