"Dee.Dee" > wrote in
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>
> "Goomba38" > wrote in message
> . ..
>> PeterLucas wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Just a question.......... why is it that most Yanks are on a 'strict
>>> budget' or any sort of budget?
>>>
>>> The only people we see on 'budgets' over here are people on the dole
>>> (welfare.... no food stamps here!!) or lower income wage earners
>>> that have 'gone beyond their means'.
>>>
>>
>> Perhaps because as a single person she likes living within her income
>> debt free yet also likes to indulge in costly travel and other
>> expenditures that she budgets her money for. And all the while she
>> maintains that house (and payments) in Arizona while living elsewhere
>> for 3 month periods of time.
>
>
> Not on a budget here. But one wants to use money wisely and live
> healthy.


True.


>It is a discipline of sorts. Surely, people in other
> countries do the same, I would think.
>


Some do.

I would have thought that a 'contractural' nurses wage would be quite
good.

Seems the US is a sucky place for good money.

Unless you're a drug dealer or a blood sucker.



--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia


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but they do not end where you please.

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