• SCB@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Most of the places around me pay way less than the actual cost of living

    This is mathematically impossible, unless you live in a place that’s a combination of heavy commuting and like, tourism.

    And this is in suburban/rural Georgia

    Yeah it’s definitely mathematically impossible. Your standards of living are out of whack with local standards of living.

    Even worse, most establishments are actually choosing to short-staff themselves to save money

    You live in a dying town.

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      11 months ago

      “Mathematically impossible” my ass, everyone commutes 2 hours to the nearest city because work outside of urban areas is unsustainable. And no, the county has had a steady high growth rate for around 3 decades by now because of the prestige from Atlanta rubbing off + low cost to buy a house make Georgia seem appealing to middle class people, and aggressive advertising by the county makes people move here, it’s not “dying”.

      “Local standards of living” are what I gave you, that’s what statistics say. If you don’t like science you can just say so. Hell, it’s not that hard to just Google “median income in Georgia” (spoiler alert: median personal income is $30,000, which is very clearly unsustainable).

      In this day and age, it’s near impossible to survive out of school if you don’t have family willing to pay for you. Hell, if I didn’t have family to fall back on I would probably have been in the streets starving rather than be getting my degree.