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Cake day: August 13th, 2023

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  • My wife and I are extremely fortunate in that we have a family friend rent situation that is way below market rent and both have decent income & no kids (yet). We enjoy a bit of light travel and go to 5-6 concerts a year and maybe one music festival. Outside of that we are fairly frugal. Don’t eat out often, do most of our shopping at Aldi etc. That being said, we don’t feel particularly well-off. And if we had a mortgage (minimum in our area with a 20 percent down payment) would be around $2k a month and a car payment, things would be pretty tight. I don’t know how people are getting by at this point… especially new families buying their first home and starting to have kids…