Living on $5,000 a year, on purpose: Meet America's 'intentional poor'
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Living on $5,000 a year, on purpose: Meet America's 'intentional poor'
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Re: Living on $5,000 a year, on purpose: Meet America's 'intentional poor'
#2This article is full of fabrication.
The girl claims to live on $1000 a month in NYC, and she only pays $135 a week for an extra room in a crap neighborhood.
Leaving her, with $540 to live on... In NYC, for 30 days. Now, I'm sure this is possible, but she is sitting there on a macbook. Welp, there goes your budget for the entire year! And this article claims less is making these people happier. Not really, and they are just exploiting their so called frugality to make a buck from selling their story. Of course they wouldn't be lying about collecting welfare and hypocritically supporting #OWS.
TL;DR The article fails to mention these people are also exploiting the system collecting welfare.
Re: Living on $5,000 a year, on purpose: Meet America's 'intentional poor'
#3I would definitely do something like this if I didn't happen to live in latitudes where it's cold and snowy in the winter.
Re: Living on $5,000 a year, on purpose: Meet America's 'intentional poor'
#4This article is full of fabrication. The girl claims to live on $1000 a month in NYC, and she only pays $135 a week for an extra room in a crap neighborhood. Leaving her, with $540 to live on... In NYC, for 30 days. Now, I'm sure this is possible, but she is sitting there on a macbook. Welp, there goes your budget for the entire year! And this article claims less is making these people happier. Not really, and they a…
No, what's fishy is the $135/week rent, even a small room can cost more than that--unless it's a really, really bad area. But you can live on $540, for a while. Food can be very cheap in the bodegas and the rest can largely be controlled by only getting what's really needed. Of course a hospital visit will set you back 1-5 years of living expenses but that's different.
Re: Living on $5,000 a year, on purpose: Meet America's 'intentional poor'
#5This article is full of fabrication. The girl claims to live on $1000 a month in NYC, and she only pays $135 a week for an extra room in a crap neighborhood. Leaving her, with $540 to live on... In NYC, for 30 days. Now, I'm sure this is possible, but she is sitting there on a macbook. Welp, there goes your budget for the entire year! And this article claims less is making these people happier. Not really, and they a…
No, what's fishy is the $135/week rent, even a small room can cost more than that--unless it's a really, really bad area. But you can live on $540, for a while. Food can be very cheap in the bodegas and the rest can largely be controlled by only getting what's really needed. Of course a hospital visit will set you back 1-5 years of living expenses but that's different.
I agree you could live on the $540 a month for food. But, how does one go about the room, obviously a cell phone bill with tethering (or leeching wifi?) Because she makes 100% of her income blogging from a macbook that costs more than 3 months of her food budget.
I like the concept, but it's just so obvious there is more behind their income. The other guy vacations to hawaii to surf, but doesn't mention what he does for income.
Re: Living on $5,000 a year, on purpose: Meet America's 'intentional poor'
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, what's fishy is the $135/week rent, even a small room can cost more than that--unless it's a really, really bad area. But you can live on $540, for a while. Food can be very cheap in the bodegas and the rest can largely be controlled by only getting what's really needed. Of course a hospital visit will set you back 1-5 years of living expenses but that's different.
I agree you could live on the $540 a month for food. But, how does one go about the room, obviously a cell phone bill with tethering (or leeching wifi?) Because she makes 100% of her income blogging from a macbook that costs more than 3 months of her food budget. I like the concept, but it's just so obvious there is more behind their income. The other guy vacations to hawaii to surf, but doesn't mention what he does…
The other guy vacations to hawaii to surf, but doesn't mention what he does for income.
The sentence immediately following the mention of Hawaii states Price’s version of the simple life costs $5,000 a year, which he earns from publishing a wilderness zine and doing odd jobs around Joseph, his eastern Oregon town.
Re: Living on $5,000 a year, on purpose: Meet America's 'intentional poor'
#7This article is full of fabrication. The girl claims to live on $1000 a month in NYC, and she only pays $135 a week for an extra room in a crap neighborhood. Leaving her, with $540 to live on... In NYC, for 30 days. Now, I'm sure this is possible, but she is sitting there on a macbook. Welp, there goes your budget for the entire year! And this article claims less is making these people happier. Not really, and they a…
There are probably a good number who had the expensive items before they decided upon this lifestyle.
Plus do not confuse living with living, as in what you would accept is likely far different than what they accept.
Re: Living on $5,000 a year, on purpose: Meet America's 'intentional poor'
#8I live in the EU and the median wage in my country is around $5000 a year after taxes.
Re: Living on $5,000 a year, on purpose: Meet America's 'intentional poor'
#9I live in the EU and the median wage in my country is around $5000 a year after taxes.
What country is that?
Edit: Looking at some EC website [1], these are the countries with median gross annual income Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania
1. http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index....
Re: Living on $5,000 a year, on purpose: Meet America's 'intentional poor'
#10I live in the EU and the median wage in my country is around $5000 a year after taxes.
What country is that? Edit: Looking at some EC website [1], these are the countries with median gross annual income Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania 1. http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index....
Basically any ex USSR country.