Affordable California Living?? - Beyond Tiki

M Monkeyman Tiki Socialite Vista, CA Joined: Mar 04, 2003 Posts: 2386	M Monkeyman Posted posted on Mon, Aug 11, 2003 2:11 PM Hanalei Pirate, I ask the same questions over and over again. We are a single income family (my income) and I wouldn't say that we live poorly but....I certainly don't feel like I have the means to live at a standard anywhere near my "peer group". Many years ago a household had ONE income. Now you have double incomes... what is next. Each adult has 2 jobs? Send your kids to work in a factory? Invite your inlaws to move in with you and split living expenses? We are creating an ever increasing standard for what is considered "acceptable living". That standard has far exceeded any reasonableness. The number of new cars I see on the road is staggering. Now take it a step further and see how many cars on the road cost $40,000 and up and it is crazy. Perhaps I digress but it all starts somewhere. This thread seemingly started out as a simple request for information but it unlocks a long a deep discussion about some very basic difficulties that many of us face. I know that we are all at different points in our life and retirement is a ways off for many of us, but I have resigned myself to the fact that I will probably NOT retire near my family simply because our quaility of life/ affordability goes down each year. By the time I am 65, who knows what it will be like. New Zealand here I come.

Hanalei Pirate,

I ask the same questions over and over again. We are a single income family (my income) and I wouldn't say that we live poorly but....I certainly don't feel like I have the means to live at a standard anywhere near my "peer group".

Many years ago a household had ONE income. Now you have double incomes... what is next. Each adult has 2 jobs? Send your kids to work in a factory? Invite your inlaws to move in with you and split living expenses?

We are creating an ever increasing standard for what is considered "acceptable living". That standard has far exceeded any reasonableness. The number of new cars I see on the road is staggering. Now take it a step further and see how many cars on the road cost $40,000 and up and it is crazy.

Perhaps I digress but it all starts somewhere.

This thread seemingly started out as a simple request for information but it unlocks a long a deep discussion about some very basic difficulties that many of us face.

I know that we are all at different points in our life and retirement is a ways off for many of us, but I have resigned myself to the fact that I will probably NOT retire near my family simply because our quaility of life/ affordability goes down each year. By the time I am 65, who knows what it will be like.

New Zealand here I come.

Post #47349 by Monkeyman on Mon, Aug 11, 2003 2:11 PM