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I consider Las Vegas a big city. I now live in a small studio apartment. The rent is $365 a month and it includes water, cable TV AND telephone. All I have to pay for is electric which averages $40 a month.
That's not a typical situation fo someone on minimum wage
if i paid $365 for rent in philly i would have to home invasions every night
If I paid $365 for rent in San Francisco, ummmm... that would mean I was living in a cardboard box on Market Street. Seriously, you can't even rent a parking spot that cheap! Studio apartments in the Tenderloin (one of the worst parts of SF) go for around $1000-1200 here, and that doesn't even include utilities.
At least they're employed... I've been unemployed for almost 6 months... I have my Associate's with honors and currently pursuing my Bachelor's and I can't get a job!
You have told us you have no health benefits. Thus with no health coverage if you get sick you are done. Minimum wage is 7.30 not 9.50. So you make 2.20 over minimum wage. What about when you retire as well? Do you get 40 hours most low wage jobs do not. Days and hours and vary from week to week. Hard to take a second job when you do not know what you are working week to week.
I don't believe in doctors, and don't go to them. So having insurance would just be a waste of money and time.
Let's say I called out sick from work, because I've hurt my knee. What is a doctor going to tell me--that I don't ALREADY know? "Stay off it. Rest. Ice. Elevate." And that's about the only thing that would get me to call out, because I wouldn't want to do that to my fellow employees, but if I've hurt my knee so bad I can't work, then I sure can't walk the two to three miles to get there either.
But a doctor's not going to tell me anything I don't already know. Except that he might suggest I take some kind of drug, and I don't even take aspirin.
That's only two weeks rent here. At best. That's a trailer park though.
Maybe it is time to move to a city with cheaper housing? There are lots of apartments under $400 a month in Las Vegas. For $600 a month you can rent a nice condo and/or apartment that even has a washer and dryer in the unit. Mine personally does not.
Please explain why not? Las Vegas is not exactly the cheapest city to live in. If I can live well on such low pay, I think anyone else should.
I wouldn't exactly say you live well. You get by. There is a difference between getting by and living well. However, it's a good thing that you're able to get by on 9.50/hr.
Also, 1 dollar per hour makes a big difference if you don't make much money. You only make slightly over minimum wage, but that slightly higher pay can make a difference.
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Seriously, you can't even rent a parking spot that cheap! Studio apartments in the Tenderloin (one of the worst parts of SF) go for around $1000-1200 here, and that doesn't even include utilities.
