• @JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca
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            510 months ago

            What’s the quality of life like on that salary in Germany? And is that in euro or USD? Honestly very curious.

            • @RobertOwnageJunior@lemmy.world
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              710 months ago

              It’s EUR, so like 26k in Dollars or something like that. It’s pretty ok, tbh, I can pay rent and spend on stuff I want here and there. It’s pure speculation, but it’s probably a lot more comfortable than if I would live in the US. I am definitely not poor or anything, but most of the people I know definitely earn more.

              • Flying Squid
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                310 months ago

                26k in the U.S. is definitely poor and you’d be lucky if you could afford an apartment by yourself.

                • @Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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                  310 months ago

                  26k in the US is the poverty line. For a family of 4. At least as far as the federal government is concerned.

                  • @Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                    110 months ago

                    That’s amazing to me. It’s me and my two kids, I’m lucky enough to have been able to recently purchase a house but up to six months ago we were living in a two bedroom 900 sq ft apartment and it cost $1300 a month. This is in Ohio, not anything I would think is high cost of living area. Boys were getting old enough that sharing a room and not having space apart was starting to present issues. Nothing bad just felt bad about our living situation. I couldn’t find anything with three bedrooms for under $2200 a month. How the hell does a family of four survive on $26k, seriously what do people do?

              • @ilex@lemmy.world
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                210 months ago

                It was tight (bad-tight, not 90s-tight) trying to live in an American city on 40k/year.