Is it even remotely affordable to have a family in the USA?

You are living in fantasy land

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Not every place in america is san francisco or new york. Plenty of places where you can rent a decent home for under $1000 a month so you can live pretty comfortably with $30k per person per year

Housing costs are high everywhere

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dude that stat includes children and seniors. So the average family of four making $150k/year with maybe a grandparent living at home would register as $30k.

According to your graph a couple earning a little over the minimum wage working full time can easily afford to live comfortably in more than half the country
Not to mention housing prices are greatly skewed in urban areas in every state so the actual number of affordable places are actually relatively higher

That's not the definition of "average" we're using dipshit. People really are this warped. You probably think $250k/yr is "middle class" too.

You do know the minimum wage is like $8 in some places right? And that tipped workers make like $2/hr?

Are you using the statistical definition of average? Because yes, the average income, according to taxes, is over $120k/year. Most people make below that though because its skewed by the rich. But there is a lot of income inequality now, so industries are most oriented around servicing the top 10% of society. No car market is going to try to make a new car for poor people (

So a couple making $8 is $16 per hour which according to that map covers pretty much half of the livable area
>not knowing how min wages work
A tipped worker still makes the full minimum wage if tips dont add up to the minimum amount so an employer paying $2 an hour would have to make up the difference if tips dont cover

But i dont want a car with seats where other people already farted into.