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ketzybear t1_izw3uq6 wrote

A minimum wage job cannot support you or pay the rent on any apartment in NYC. You'll need to find roommates, and even that will be difficult on a shoe string budget.

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Pristine-Confection3 t1_izw58cz wrote

Plenty of us live on it . It is called being in poverty.

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movingtobay2019 t1_izw5rek wrote

I don't know if that is the path we want 21 year olds on.

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Pristine-Confection3 t1_izwbd2f wrote

It is all over the country though. Minimum wage is 7 dollar and rents are too high for that. There you have to pay for a car. As long as jobs don’t pay enough and the cost of living is so high, people will be poor everywhere . It is easy to survive with 25000 in savings and any job. Middle class people say you can’t but are used to more comforts . You just rent a room and not live in trendy neighborhoods. North Brooklyn and Manhattan are far more expensive that most of the city .

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