As of 2021, the state with the highest median household income was Maryland with...

drivebyhooting · on July 20, 2023

It would break my family. It would mean living in a small cramped place near the highway(s) with bad public schools.

You can argue from your data all you want, but it would 100% lead to divorce.

adhesive_wombat · on July 20, 2023

For richer, for poorer*

* but not less than $200k, this is a marriage not a charity.

mistymountains · on July 20, 2023

Welcome to the real world. Move somewhere more affordable.

drivebyhooting · on July 20, 2023

Who is to say what is real? I grew up in a 3rd world country in what most Americans would call poverty. Was that more real than living a middle class life in Montana?

I’m just giving my personal perspective: I have assumed substantial responsibilities with long term duration and liability. A precipitous drop in income would be cataclysmic.

Move somewhere else indeed! How is that not destroying the life we’ve built so far?

KptMarchewa · on July 20, 2023

Yes, but that much of a decrease would be broad and that housing cost would collapse.