Businesses aren't willing to raise wages enough for their own employees to afford the products they sell anyway, so the best thing to do is find roommates and double-up or triple-up on expenses such as rent.
On the bright side, a lot of really big houses are being bought up by real estate investors who are turning those big houses into rentals. Too bad for the neighborhood associations, though.
Currently I take home about $850 a month. I have to drive all the way to Jacksonville for work and now gas is up over $3 per gallon. That's crazy! I have to live with family. I can't afford anything on my own, and I know for a fact that most of you can't either. So what do we do?
Well, we can pool our resources and rent one of those fancy McMansions that have become rentals over in Fox Meadow subdivision and have a blast!
Since I work nights and you probably work days, we won't really see each other but there will always be someone home, so there's your security. We will need to get enough of us together so we can afford it though. I'm not going to pay more than 25% of my income on rent, about $220.00 at the very most.
Someone will just have to park in the street because the yard will be out of the question as a parking spot unless someone has some blocks and plywood.
Maybe if our employers paid us enough we could afford mortgages, appliances, cars, clothing and enough groceries to support a family if we wanted to have one of those too.
