“Chicken Wings, Nobody Should Be Paying $2 Per Wing”: 30 Things People Can No Longer Afford

Many would but the cost to emigrate in many countries requires being rich. For example to emigrate to Australia one must have at least $500,000 in savings.

I'm eligible for dual citizenship with Italy through heritage. I'm looking at what that will entail and if it how difficult it would be to live in Italy or eu for me. Cause I'm over this.

Oh gee, why didn't I think of that!!! I would love to emigrate to Canada or Europe but it's unattainable because of our income.

Remind me why so many people keep trying to get into the US?

Wish I could pack my bags I have a $1,200 medical bill in collections right now. That is after insurance and a $3,000 up front deductible for a surgery I desperately needed.

Canadian here, dental and vision (other than eye exams) are not covered.

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Most of us cannot afford that either

Not that amazing even if you have national health fund. You might die before doctors can see/diagnose/treat you.

With what money? We're too poor to move to another city never mind a country.

Yes, NHS dental is the way to go.

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Dental in Germany is not free either. At least not things like fake teeth etc. Going to the dentist is still free, so no reason to have bad teeth.

I'm feeling instant jealousy

Which was a substantial amount of money then

CSNY $2, Greek Theater Los angeles 1969. Grateful Dead $2 (student ticket) Pauley Pavilion, UCLA 1971.

I went to go see a local artist who wasn’t very well known at all a few months ago, tickets were $50 🥲

Back in the 80s and 90s a home typically cost 2 to 3 times the average annual salary. Today it's more like 10X.

My bi-weekly grocery trip used to run me about $150, or about $300 for the month. That was just after the COVID restrictions started. Now? A mere 4 years later? Well over $200 - and it's necessities only instead of whatever we wanted. Birthdays and holidays are a real financial crunch right now.

Adjusted for inflation, 1975 prices were about the same as today's. However, normal stuff in today's prices are up significantly in other places. For example, a 4L bucket of paint is up almost 100%. Drywall is 75% more expensive, as is lumber. Gasoline is comparatively similarly priced, but tires cost 70% more nowadays. Rent in 1975 is about 60% of today's prices. Anything that has NOT been indexed with inflation costs SIGNIFICANTLY more than it did in 1975. But thanks for chiming in without researching boomer

I went and bought a box of cat litter, bag of cat food, coffee cream, onions and apples today. $74 CAD 😬

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What the hell do you know about food deserts in the USA?

The problem is the interest rate is so high it never gets paid back unless you make significant overpayments each month

The program I want to take (in Canada) is $20,000 a year :(

Starmer will lower that threshold, you'll get what we have in Australia. Two parties in governments identical. You'll lose all hope.

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My carcass can go to science

My grandma worked at a funeral home for the last 10 years of her life. Great death hack, we got her employee discount on her own funeral 😅 and lots of freebies like extra flowers from the staff because they were her coworkers and she was a wonderfully friendly woman.

That's why my plan is to donate my body to science. No grave, no container, no funeral, no memorial service.

Why care? We’ll be dead! Just put me in a plastic (compostable) bag and stick me somewhere.

Not my problem once I'm dead.

But if you're dead, YOU don't have to worry about it! And I have no relatives, no family members, nobody that bill collectors can come after, my will states the DAV will have access to my estate immediately upon being declared deceased, so everything will be long gone before any hospital or other agency tries to grab anything, and as a disabled vet the VA takes care of the planting or Bar-B-Que free of charge. Croaking is gonna be a free ride for me, no worries.

I have literraky googke if it is kegal to just bury without a coffin on my own land ( way out in field to not effect resale value) or to even just crispy critter my butt. Burn me in the field, i am fine with it.

well... not for the deceased at least 😂

I think that's the point of it being included. Only very wealthy families can afford to live comfortably on a single income.

"Those Disney people - they're kinda close with a buck." - Bill Murray

And for ruining Star Wars. Screw them.

Forget the greed, all the human trafficking.

They never were. Walt built Disneyland so families could go and play together, instead of Mom and Dad sitting on a bench watching their kids on the carousel. It's utterly out of control now; thanks to "dynamic pricing", they nickel and dime you to death for things that used to be part of the ticket.

Not as Walt Disney himself envisioned.

I heard someone talking about “starter homes” the other day. Like, “yeah that’s a nice house but a little small for a family, it would make a good starter home for a young couple.” I was like…..a WHAT?

Never gonna happen. That boomer sold their summer property when the resort town got gentrified and they put their own home up for a reverse mortgage. They consumed everything left behind by previous generations, and feed off the taxes of the younger generations. They will leave nothing behind but a dying world and debt