"Goomba38" > wrote in message
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> PeterLucas wrote:
>> "kilikini" > wrote in
>> :
>>> My hubby makes about $14K a year and supports the both of us as best
>>> he can. It can be done!
>>>
>>
>>
>> Excuse the French but.......... ***** me*!!!
>>
>> Even with the exchange rate (it comes out to AUD$15,140.00) that is
>> pathetic for the "supposed" #1 country in the world!!
>>
>> Our 23yo daughter is working for the State electricity Board. Just doing
>> office work.
>>
>> She earns AUD$52,000.
>>
>>
>> My advice.......... give the 'greatest country in the world' the flick
>> and come to the "Lucky Country".
>>
>>
>> (Although they pay their ex-soldiers jack-shit........ it's just on 4
>> times what TFM is making)
>>
>>
>>
>> No wonder so many people in the US turn to crime.
>>
> I think you're getting a distorted or inaccurate impression of the US
> society on the whole based on this family's unusual situation?
>
>
I would have to agree. Each situation is so different in the US. The cost of
living can differ from county to county, state to state, region to region.
What we make in Northern California would be a fortune in Mississippi where
we moved from. A cookie cutter house on a zero lot is still about the same
price as a larger house on several acres in the area we transferred here
from. It's so hard to make a judgement on a single person's experience.
Though I have to agree, there is a huge gap in pay from job to job here in
the U.S. Some fields pay an exorbitant amount for the job done, while those
who are toiling every day in physical jobs make pennies.

We learn to live with what we have though. Even if we do need a little help
from outside sometimes. Being a single mom with a deadbeat ex was vary hard
because I had to either work a job that my schedule met that of my children,
or pay for childcare which saps a paycheck. Just saying, every situation is
so different, it's like comparing apples and turnips.

Cindi

Cindi