https://rdrama.net/post/90316/as-all-true-drama-lovers-should

also check out the documenting of the festival above. I'll be scouring the facebook groups posting the best screenshots all week.

The offending post

Ive lived in the same shitty apartment in the Bay Area for 7 years. My rent has gone from 1300-3500 in seven years. They’ve raised it so much I no longer qualify for this or any other apartment since you have to make 3x the rent, and pay first last and deposit to move in, so the move in costs alone are over $9000. I can’t leave, nowhere to go, too poor to move. I’m slowly being sucked dry of all of my accomplishments and savings.

You need to leave the city If possible of course* The city is too expensive now.

BTW I live in a town of 4700 people, my mortgage for a house with shop/garage on a double "city" lot is 640 a month!! If you were to bail and find a work from home job you could literally get a house in rual America for less than what you paid for your s***** apartment 7 years ago.

The usual responses

Except there's like...nothing IN those tiny towns. So sure, my mortgage would be 640 a month, but I couldn't get more than 10up/10down broadband internet without paying out the butt for satellite and to go to any big store I'd have to drive an hour to the next town over.

Yeah people always seem to forget that nobody moves to the city for the space and cheap living, people move to cities because of the culture and opportunities it affords. There’s nothing wrong with living in a rural community obviously, but it’s an entirely different situation, with an entirely different set of pros and cons.

This is such reddit thing.

High COL? Move to the rural cheap area.

See a video of cops fricking with minorities, people with crazy trump flags or religious hostility, a total lack of infrastructure, meth heads breaking into shit or whatever crazy third-world stuff and the comments are like "move to a better place".

Can't we have a decent place, especially for those who wouldn't fit in a white Christian nationalist neighborhood that isn't ridiculously expensive? Oh, and jobs

Why do west coast city dwellers always think every thing else is some rural shit hole? If you move to some po dunk 1200 pop town in Southern Ohio then that's what you'll get. If you live in any of the three big Ohio cities or their suburbs you don't have to deal with that shit for the most part. Plenty of cheap rent, jobs and culture.

I'm not West Coast. I'm in the suburbs of Virginia.

Ohio? If I would have moved somewhere simply for cheap rent, I rather go live in Montenegro or Kuala Lumpur. Ohio?

Some very angry responses to this one:

If you pay 3500 for rent how are you too poor to move?

how fricking old are you. you sound liek a kid who hasn't had real life yet

do you understand that if someone is only making enough money to break even (or have minimal savings) they won't be able to save enough to move.

Jannied into oblivion. Unddit was able to capture most of it:

https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/Economics/comments/wdfpwu/millennials_are_finding_it_harder_to_survive_as/iii6ql1

actualy thats big walet gangsnta shit

Net Worth: ~`$215,700 (My net worth is half of my house value, $770,000, minus half of remaining mortgages, minus student loans for my older children, minus credit card debt, plus pension fund and savings.)

Debt: $291,688 (Credit card: $12,738, home equity loan: $118,000, primary mortgage: $77,000, student loans: $83,950)

Do you worry about money now?

Every, every day. My husband and I have been in a cold war for a few years now. I’m not even sure how it started, but it definitely had something to do with money. We’ve always kept our money separate, even when I was a stay-at-home parent for about 15 years. L. was always able to pay all of our expenses, but he’s gotten more and more unwilling to do so over the years. As of now, he pays what he must to keep a roof over our heads, but not much more. For about the past 10 years, he has not contributed to any of the children’s college educations, nor to semi-discretionary expenses like clothing, birthday gifts, prom, AP tests, college application fees, dorm stuff, etc., which is why I have so much debt and no savings. He has no debt other than our mortgage and home equity loan, and approximately $450,000 in retirement accounts (I snuck a look at his statement for this diary). I don’t know how much he has in other savings, though I have to assume that it is quite a bit. He is self-employed and refuses to divulge how much he makes. I know that he declared $85,000 on our tax return this year, but in the past, it has been as much as $275,000. It's a financially abusive relationship, and I can't afford to get out. I am trying to save enough for an attorney, but that is proving to be almost impossible, given the high cost of children and education.

The story of a suburban teacher whose husband is hiding money from her while the kids are constantly hitting her up for money. The comments have a lot of me too's in them.

This money diary also made me cry. I think there are many women in financially abusive relationships and I hope OP is able to get out of this relationship. I cannot imagine how lonely it must be with a selfish partner like that. I hope OP knows that we're all routing for her.

If you run the current numbers provided, OP has $25,358 in discretionary spending per year, while her husband has $25,324. Nearly equal. Does it make him selfish to prioritize saving for retirement while OP prioritizes spending on education expenses for their adult children? Seems more like a difference in financial priorities and values.

This ruffled some feathers.

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