Nova Mysquaros Gitaxias :
I did this as a project for remedial math (here in the US) in 2003 before I graduated.
I had classmates arguing with me about actual objective facts. Minimum wage at the time was $5.15 an hour. A studio apartment at the time, cheapest in town, was $350 a month and included water, sewage, and trash disposal. You had to pay electricity, phone (we didn't have a lot of mobile phones back then), internet if you wanted it (it wasn't ubiquitous back then), car insurance and gas and possibly car payments because we didn't have a bus system back then, groceries, and insurance (the ADA didn't exist back then so you couldn't get Medicaid if you made minimum wage). I went to that apartment complex and asked a variety of people for their living costs, researched credit rates for car loans, researched insurance rates in our area for 18-year-olds (insane even back then), everything. Even living with ZERO fun stuff, you couldn't survive without hitting the food banks or using a bicycle as your exclusive form of travel.
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