The market for 40+ people is on fire!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3260706&forum_id=2#33886596)

I pay 1k in rent each month, it's tough making a decision on whether I should cop a studio for 1.5k a month or just stay with roommates, save aggressively and cop a condo in the next 2-3 years.

For example I feel like girls judge me based on having roommates etc, and copping a 180 GF is important, especially as I get into late 20's and the 180 girls at locked down.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3260706&forum_id=2#30746768)

So, go out, do stuff, don't spend all your money though. Most importantly, don't stay at a shit job that is draining your soul away. There are always options.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3260706&forum_id=2#30747316)

it's not if you are intelligent/upwardly mobile. i had the same experience. every time you move up the socioeconomic ladder and your income/wealth/whjatever goes up significantly, your prior scrimping and saving becomes almsot inconsequential. it's like struggling to save $5 in high school before you get a real job, then all the $5s you saved mean very little

my first job making $30k i scrimped and saved, and now making a lot more than that all the money i saved then was pretty chump change

at some point you do hit a cap, but until then all the saving you do in prior life stages is compeltely overshadwoed as soon as you level up

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3260706&forum_id=2#30747252)

Plus, it's entirely possible you don't "level up" or some major event derails your life, and then the money is highly consequential.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3260706&forum_id=2#30747329)

(a) complete overhaul of society, so your savings are meaningless.

(b) this world is a festering TTT, and killself is the best option.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3260706&forum_id=2#30747379)

Decadent. What's the XO wisdom on min income to afford a 1600 place?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3260706&forum_id=2#30748675)

Your life is as valuable towards the end: your cock stops working, you lose your hair, you lose your hearing, social groups wither away, etc... Many experiences are only truly available to the young.

Having said that, I don't have an answer. I need to live like a pauper if I ever want to buy real estate. Or never have kids. It marry well. Or Both.

Edit: Adam Carolla talks about not having health insurance or even modest savings in his late twenties, with no family to fall back on. He figured he'd either make it or he wouldn't. He disdained the modestly confortable and soul crushing middle. I tend to agree with this perspective. This is why fed gov jobs should be avoided

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3260706&forum_id=2#30748406)

If I'm honest, I probably troll against a healthy medium. Settling for a fed gov job, marrying a plain woman, and buying a 700k condo strikes me as a shitty life. Many of us won't make it, but give it a shot

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3260706&forum_id=2#30748544)

Right now I'm set up to save almost 50% of after tax income on a 70k salary

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3260706&forum_id=2#30837525)

When you're older you'll chuckle as everyone around bitches and whines about how hard it is to "make it" now. They'll all be loaded with debt, asking their parents for handouts, and enduring a financial stress that will eat away at their marriage/relationship.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3260706&forum_id=2#30837744)

when fresh out of school, you can literally live like a poor grad student and still have as much fun as ever. you don't need to be fancy. you can't really win the fancy race in terms of golddigger chicks anyway. so try to save your money. rent, food, transportation and maybe travel are the big expenses. I'd say get roommates, save as much as possible on solo meals and have some left to splurge on dates or out. don't be cheap with others around to judge you. travel while young on those kinds of trips that you can do cheaply and best when young anyway: hostel style backpacking; national park camping; road trips between domestic cities.

so please live it up as much as possible, but as a young person you have a built in excuse to do so in a carefree, young way. don't try to chase some kind of ideal of a baller.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3260706&forum_id=2#30838025)

What happened to the Bulgarian? Get a chick that is down to earth and that u find attractive. It's 180.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3260706&forum_id=2#33164727)

im trying to focus on getting promoted or a better job and not bank on making anything in crypto

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3260706&forum_id=2#33886571)