Comment on Anon lives on a budget
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I was born into one of those nowhere low wage “right to work” shitholes and I have some advice for people in them.
Leave. GTFO. Get a passport or move to a state with a high minimum wage. Your family doesn’t matter. Your education options don’t matter. You will be better off somewhere else, I guarantee it.
Move to a state with a high minimum wage
You’d be right back in the same boat. You might make more, but now you live where the cost of living is way higher, too.
California has a $15/hour minimum wage, and it’s not enough to live off of in California.
your quality of life will be much higher.
in CA op wouldn’t need a car
Maybe if they choose to live in LA or the bay area. You definitely need one in the central valley.
You would not be back in the same boat. Your life will improve. Make the move.
Tracaine@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I am 100% doing this. Fuck my family. My wife is a piece of shit and the kids are too. A random stranger online said it and that’s fucking gospel to me. Good luck to the kids. I’m outta here. Thanks buddy. You are SO right.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I was implying the family as in the larger social network of parents, grandparents, cousins, etc. The leading cause of homelessness is not having exactly that sort of network, I think about a third are foster care children who aged out of the system.
If you have a wife and kids then you’ve already made your bed. Best you can do is take them with you to Colorado or Washington.