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Old 10-24-2011, 12:38 AM
 
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Hi,

How much would a youngish man have to net each month to live a pretty good lifestyle in Boulder? Thanks.
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Old 10-24-2011, 01:00 AM
 
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Depends on your expenses but you will need exactly $3,256.37 each month to live comfortably in Boulder City. Hope this helps. One penny less and you will need a part time job.
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Old 10-24-2011, 10:31 AM
 
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von949:
Depends on your expenses but you will need exactly $3,256.37 each month to live comfortably in Boulder City. Hope this helps. One penny less and you will need a part time job.
Your calculation is off by 1 cent. I get $3256.36, so he'd actually be OK if he had one penny less than your calculation shows. But he'd have no margin for error.
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Old 10-24-2011, 11:27 AM
 
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von949:
Depends on your expenses but you will need exactly $3,256.37 each month to live comfortably in Boulder City. Hope this helps. One penny less and you will need a part time job.
Your calculation is off by 1 cent. I get $3256.36, so he'd actually be OK if he had one penny less than your calculation shows. But he'd have no margin for error.
Ah, but you forgot to factor in the trust fund. Add that in, and we can round it off at 6.40.
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Old 10-24-2011, 11:32 AM
 
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C'mon guys, you left out the calculations for Colorado wind speeds and the rotational effects of our spinning orb. That raises the estimates in inverse relationship to the number of days of sunshine divided by the cost of parking in Boulder, but keep that a secret since it came from a native who's been doing these calculations on his abacus for several decades.
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Old 10-24-2011, 11:39 AM
 
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Mike...actually my calculations did include everything you mentioned, but I admit that I failed to include the fact that the last day of the Mayan Calander ( 10-28-2011 ) will occurr in just 4 days. That will casue a 'shift' im my calculations in one direxction or another, but I won't know which way until we run out of time, so it doesn't really matter anyway.
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Old 10-24-2011, 03:25 PM
 
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Mike...actually my calculations did include everything you mentioned, but I admit that I failed to include the fact that the last day of the Mayan Calander ( 10-28-2011 ) will occurr in just 4 days. That will casue a 'shift' im my calculations in one direxction or another, but I won't know which way until we run out of time, so it doesn't really matter anyway.
Just to be safe, I've stocked up at the wine store about an hour ago. Let the world end, I'll just pop the top on a cold one.

Meanwhile, back to the OP's question. IMO any single person who wants to live in Boulder should be netting about $3k per month.
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Old 10-24-2011, 04:05 PM
 
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$3K a month! Things have changed. I lived OK in Boulder on my $64 a week unemployment check in '72.
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Old 10-24-2011, 04:15 PM
 
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$3K a month! Things have changed. I lived OK in Boulder on my $64 a week unemployment check in '72.
You are nothing but a trustafarian leech.
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Old 10-24-2011, 04:22 PM
 
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Depends on your expenses but you will need exactly $3,256.37 each month to live comfortably in Boulder City. Hope this helps. One penny less and you will need a part time job.
True, if you're talking about Boulder City, Nevada. This thread, however, is about Boulder, Colorado. In that case you need ~3,414.46 per month to compensate for the 4.63% Colorado income tax.
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