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How to live on $432 a month in America

(For All Expenses)

A long and mostly endless stream of “ blackpills ” about the cost of housing can be readily found on any social media platform — and often enough, the “boomers” are the scapegoat; the ones who lived their American Dreams and, as the allegations go, pulled up the ladder behind them as they tasted their successes. Yes, startling as it could be to many “Zoomers” and “Milennials,” it just so happens that if you really want to become a member of the landed gentry, it’s really not so far out of reach just the moment you decide that you like the snow, don’t need access to the hottest clubs and the biggest cities, and can be more than happy with getting cozy in a smaller house. That they’re actively taking the great wealth of our history, land, and infrastructure and hanging onto it, preserving it, standing up for it — in a way that simply isn’t possible for those who choose to pack into top-10 cities with sky-high rents.

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