I hope you guys are talking about $50,000 take home money, and even that is tight in most areas of the US. $50,000 salary would probably not be enough for a family to live on with all the basic family expenses (especially a family of four) - and no vacations or events or going to the restaurant. But just my opinion...
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Living Costs in the Dominican Republic
Split-leaf tomatoes by chance. Many people in North American live quite well on less than 50,000 take home, but they don't live in big cities.
Yannandu/Pi2/Yapaski/Whatever,
20k is well below the poverty line for a family of four in the U.S. They could probably be just fine if they chose to adopt the Unabomber lifestyle and raise half-homeschooled-half-feral children, hunt moose with bows and arrows (I'd really like to see that, btw,) and dress their wounds with moss and dog spit, but that just doesn't sound like they're having a very good time.
I agree with you (and your multiple personalities) that things would be MUCH better if they had a solar cooker and a family-sized nuclear reactor.aranoid:
Yes more people receive food stamps in the US worth 16k$ a year than ever before and eat the junk food.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/o...we-end-poverty-in-america.html?pagewanted=all
But the real poor in Africa etc. get about $1,000 a year for a family of three - US surely has a selfish nature driving up food costs.
Yes I have seen pot-bellied children in Indian camps in Minneapolis state too - begging at the roadside when state owned helicopters roared overhead,
If we all share a little or a lot depending there may possibly be a World in the future to be proud of
yapask1.
I have no mortgage on my house and If I gross 50 K per year I am broke
Re Tax 3500
Ins hs 1000
Ins car 1500
Con Ed 2500
Heating oil 8000
Cable/Inet 1200
Car maint 1200
Child support 12000
Im at thirty grand before I buy a shirt or groceries. And I live modestly.
Without the child support and the heating oil it would still be a struggle to live on 50 grand in the Bronx. Thank God my house is paid off.
Re Tax 3500
Ins hs 1000
Ins car 1500
Con Ed 2500
Heating oil 8000
Cable/Inet 1200
Car maint 1200
Child support 12000
Im at thirty grand before I buy a shirt or groceries. And I live modestly.
Without the child support and the heating oil it would still be a struggle to live on 50 grand in the Bronx. Thank God my house is paid off.
Not modestly - when I was growing up a small paraffin stove heated the family bedroom - about 1 gallon a week in winter.
Child support: its up to you but go to the DR etc. and difficult to chase you. Ride a scooter to work and sell the cars with their high maintenance.
yapask1
HA! i got it now! you did get poor cousin mitzie in trouble, did ya? had to move far away from home to avoid paying child support, did ya? yanandu's motto: spread the seed but don't pay the deed.
back here in the Domnican Republic,
I would like to encourage anyone who has a RETIREMENT income of 50k to come and live here
you will
live
like
ROYALTY
I would like to encourage anyone who has a RETIREMENT income of 50k to come and live here
you will
live
like
ROYALTY
Look, I know folks who made maybe 40k between TWO salaries working for the city of Asheville .. and still managed to put their kids through college. I have friends who never made more than 12k and raised kids without ever going on the public purse. I know families who just bought a trailer for the kids and helped raise the grandkids.
If you go south of the Mason Dixon and inland by sixty miles there is another world
did you know that half of America's population lives within one hour of the coast?
public rural education.. in places that are NOT the prison warehouses that are growing up now, like Columbine, but towns like Asheville, and Knoxville, and Louiville, and Chattanooga.. these are all VERY habitable and SANE and GREAT little cities.. St Louis.. awesome places....
Median Income for 4-Person Families, by State - U.S Census Bureau
the median income divides the population into two parts, with half making less and half making more
the median income divides the population into two parts, with half making less and half making more
People find different ways to survive - and where you live does affect the cost of living - in the US or the DR.
I would guess that the median salaries versus the median expenses would show that most people just get by (and in reality, in the US, many carry large debt all their lives).
I would guess that the median salaries versus the median expenses would show that most people just get by (and in reality, in the US, many carry large debt all their lives).
Congratulations - your efforts most likely supported a family of 4 in Haiti for a month. $2 a person a day is typical for person in Haiti. Might have been more effective to give some money to charity and have a picnic on the beach....
yapask1
yapask1
Yes of course ; and they can pretend to be god as well Louis the XIV - portrayed as Jupiter:
Just what the DR does not need - more sun-gods making people jealous and hateful.
Yes of course we all live with multiple mirrors - some people do not look at their reflection!!
Just what the DR does not need - more sun-gods making people jealous and hateful.
Yes of course we all live with multiple mirrors - some people do not look at their reflection!!
Yapaski,
Maybe i misunderstood your post but...I believe Mountainannie works with Haitians--both in the DR and in Haiti. my understanding is that she is one of the few people on this board who directly works in trying to better the lives of the Haitian people.
Frank
Yes, thanks Frank, I do and have been for the last 8 years. I am pleased to report that working from the base in Las Terrenas and up to the level of the International Office of Migration we now have papers for an NGO to protect the rights of Haitians who are living here now -- particularly those who were brought over to BUILD the place-- and will be getting those who wish to return back to Haiti with all their children registered with solid international papers.
I will be taking a job now to pay of the $16,000 personal debt which I have incurred.
Yes, the minimum wage is about 16k $ a year but many jobs are only part time or on demand. Short term contracts or waiting at street corners for some farmer or other to hire.
Yes, there is hunger in the US.
Hunger in America: 2012 United States Hunger and Poverty Facts
yapask1
"Yappy", your jealousy of everything about the USA is VERY evident in this thread.
This IS, the :Living Forum", "it is supposed to be about "Living" in the DR,NOT the USA,or "everywhere" else.
Every post you make does not have to include an internet search about living in the USA.
You are definately in the World's minority,since just about everyone in the world would LOVE to live in America.
I am luck to spend money on what I want because I can.
I don't live "On-The-Cheap" because I don't have to.
Hampsters have no money to spend,yet seem to be very happy.
That doesn't mean I would rather be a hampster!
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This IS, the :Living Forum", "it is supposed to be about "Living" in the DR,NOT the USA,or "everywhere" else.
Every post you make does not have to include an internet search about living in the USA.
You are definately in the World's minority,since just about everyone in the world would LOVE to live in America.
I am luck to spend money on what I want because I can.
I don't live "On-The-Cheap" because I don't have to.
Hampsters have no money to spend,yet seem to be very happy.
That doesn't mean I would rather be a hampster!
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I don't know your definition of royalty but things cost way too much to live like a royalty here with only $50K. Although I haven't ventured into South America yet but in many Central America and Asian countries I traveled in had beautiful girls, beaches and excellent food and the living cost was far less then DR. Personally if I had $50K retirement money and if I want to live like a King I would look for a place in South East Asia or Central America.