How Much Money Do You Really Need In A Year?

[see4]

@april - you are quite right, I dont need all this money ( not that I am super rich or anything ) -- but I enjoy what I do, and it just so happens I get paid well doing it. I live a great life.. I generally work from home most days, and can come and go as I please.. last year I took a months vacation (paid) no problemo..

@tip top - right, I also stated it depends on where you live. $18,000 where I live would not get you far at all.. you might be lucky to survive a few months, maybe.. but down south or in the midwest, $18,000 can last you the year.. remember, the gov came up with this stat..

 

[april]

wow if 17000$ means i live in poverty i love being poor, blackberry, new car, trucks, boats, fuck my life sucks i guess lmfao

 

[see4]

It all depends on where you live. Not sure how many other ways I can say it.

 

[tip top toker]

Even depending on where you live doesn't really bare much relevance. I could live in london and regardless what people say, it would be just fine, potatoes and carrots only cost soo much regardless where i live. Restaurants and pubs and taxi's and trains and cinema's may all be a lot more expensive because of the neighbourhood, but again, those items have nothing todo with poverty. Anyone that met me would probably state that i live in poverty. I have little money, i eat instant noodles for 80% of my diet, i don't go to pubs, restaurants, cinemas, buy new clothes, but i am perfectly content, poverty never even crossed my mind.

 

[april]

It all depends on where you live. Not sure how many other ways I can say it.

aw muffin i was just being sarcastic, i am very proud of my life and the way i choose to live it, so should u, you have drive and goals be proud of u and your wife!!

I know i will make what i need to be happy, thats what matters, so don't take it personal if i tease ya about buffing your white sneakers, i only mock the ones i respect.

 

[medicalmaryjane]

my rent alone adds up to moe than 20k a year. i need a lot to live in this city.

 

[see4]

I ain't mad at ya april, no worries.

tip top - you could not be anymore wrong. level of income has a direct relationship with where you live. that's just common sense. a person living in Alabama making $18K/year will live much better than a person living in Manhattan making the same. Street bums in the city make more than $18K/year, and they are STREET BUMS!

 

[see4]

Even depending on where you live doesn't really bare much relevance. I could live in london and regardless what people say, it would be just fine, potatoes and carrots only cost soo much regardless where i live. Restaurants and pubs and taxi's and trains and cinema's may all be a lot more expensive because of the neighbourhood, but again, those items have nothing todo with poverty. Anyone that met me would probably state that i live in poverty. I have little money, i eat instant noodles for 80% of my diet, i don't go to pubs, restaurants, cinemas, buy new clothes, but i am perfectly content, poverty never even crossed my mind.

Yet you spend money on weed and internet. Yea, you have your priorities in line.... (sarcasm)

 

[april]

Ya that's why i live in a rural canadian city with 900 people lmfao, if i lived in Toronto i would need alot more, i did work in Toronto and made over 50000$ a year, which made me miserable!!!! I hate the city!!!! Too many yuppies and guys in skinny jeans!!!!

 

[medicalmaryjane]

I ain't mad at ya april, no worries.

tip top - you could not be anymore wrong. level of income has a direct relationship with where you live. that's just common sense. a person living in Alabama making $18K/year will live much better than a person living in Manhattan making the same. Street bums in the city make more than $18K/year, and they are STREET BUMS!

so true. find me someone in alabama who pays rent like i do for a 2bdrm apartment lol

 

[StonedPony]

well im happy with my life........Im in the IRON and STEAL business.........my girlfriend Irons close and I go out at night and steal...................so about 200 bux a year will do me............while I sit here in jail for stealing...........

 

[see4]

Shit, if you think thats bad, try moving to LA or San Fran... you can't buy a parking space for less than $100,000. And yes, I mean buy a parking space. They do that in cities... a family member recently their parking space in Boston (Back Bay) for $125,000.... you can buy deeded parking spaces..

 

[tip top toker]

I ain't mad at ya april, no worries.

tip top - you could not be anymore wrong. level of income has a direct relationship with where you live. that's just common sense. a person living in Alabama making $18K/year will live much better than a person living in Manhattan making the same. Street bums in the city make more than $18K/year, and they are STREET BUMS!

It has a direct relastionship with what house you live in, not on having a better life. I could live in the most expensive part of london or any city i like, happily, essentially for free, and survive just perfectly on a few thousand pounds a year. The poverty line is set on a governments opinion on what is and is not a good life. They are creating a definition for poverty on nothing more than their opinions of what is acceptable. I don't buy into the whole consumer lifestyle, i wear the same clothes i was wearing 5 years ago, yet to most people this would be seen as a terrible thing, to not have new clothes..

Yet you spend money on weed and internet. Yea, you have your priorities in line.... (sarcasm)

Weeed costs me nothing.... Internet costs me £5 a month, wow, huge outgoings there.. and who the fuck is anyone to tell someone else to get their priorities in line other than as a degrading "you don't conform to my idea of normal" remark... I eat instant noodles because i love them, they take a few minutes and they're from china so are lush, and i don't go out because i do not want to go out, and i do not buy clothes because i have zero need to buy clothes, they are all colourful, fit, and are fit for their purpose, or am i just supposed to throw out perfectly good clothes and buy new ones for the sake of buying new ones and seeming "normal". It has nothing to do with priorities. Title of this thread is need.. not want.

 

[see4]

well im happy with my life........Im in the IRON and STEAL business.........my girlfriend Irons close and I go out at night and steal...................so about 200 bux a year will do me............while I sit here in jail for stealing...........

And I bet you spend the 200 on boner pills. I know I would.

 

[see4]

It has a direct relastionship with what house you live in, not on having a better life. I could live in the most expensive part of london or any city i like, happily, essentially for free, and survive just perfectly on a few thousand pounds a year. The poverty line is set on a governments opinion on what is and is not a good life. They are creating a definition for poverty on nothing more than their opinions of what is acceptable. I don't buy into the whole consumer lifestyle, i wear the same clothes i was wearing 5 years ago, yet to most people this would be seen as a terrible thing, to not have new clothes..

You have gone off topic, and are no longer arguing the original point. At this point you are only stating your personal preference. And to live in the most expensive part of london you would need to be making much more than the "mandated" poverty level.. so your argument there is moot.

 

[tip top toker]

You have gone off topic, and are no longer arguing the original point. At this point you are only stating your personal preference. And to live in the most expensive part of london you would need to be making much more than the "mandated" poverty level.. so your argument there is moot.

Um no, i can live in a campervan quite perfectly in the most expensive part of london as happy as a bee. The poverty line is based on an opinion, that an aceptable place to live would be X, that an acceptable amount of food would cost Y. The whole point is poverty means nothing, it's just a label, you can class people as in poverty all you like but it doesn't make it so, not unless they themselves decide they live in poverty

If you havn't noticed this entire thread is about personal preference.

I mean if we're sticking on topic, noone needs any money a year.

 

[beardo]

I have done it in 0$ but it sucks sometimes, having money is better but more stressful

 

[see4]

You are now arguing semantics. You are right, poverty is simply a label. And according to my point of view, you live under the poverty line. You may not think so, which is wonderful, and I am truly happy for you.

Yep, you are right, this thread is about personal preference.... so why the frik are you arguing with me?

 

[see4]

I have done it in 0$ but it sucks sometimes, having money is better but more stressful

totally agree... it can be done, one can simply live off the land, have no money at all, and survive. but to many that is considered a shitty experience. to others, living in a van down by the river is pretty crappy too, but Chris Farley did it...

 

[tip top toker]

Yep, you are right, this thread is about personal preference.... so why the frik are you arguing with me?

I guess that would be when you told me i could not be more wrong.... good day

And i guess my point was that noone get's to judge anyone's state of poverty but their own.