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Nevermind the fact that you're moving the goalposts, those numbers don't even remotely add up.  you're talking over 4k/mo expenses.  The numbers you gave are 51k/yr.  we still haven't talked about taxes and withholdings.  Fed alone we'll say is ~22%, that's about 66k a year.  again 9.5k/hr is less than 20k/yr.  You're lying or your math is sloppier than you understand it to be. 
  
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 EDITED EDIT: corrected math

gpt
Well yeah to be fair, I said 'almost 20k a year', so if 30% higher than that is too far away I completely understand. My point was simply that if I can do this and still maintain a real lifestyle (ie. not hotdogs and ramen noodles) in one of the highest cost of living areas on earth, someone could easily live under 20k a year in a lower cost of living area on minimum wage. There's an entire flow chart on it over in r/personalfinance