A younger me would be throwing a brick right now...

[Ben Kenobi]

Quebec doesn't have an equivalent of Goldman Sachs? Quelle surprise. Or whatever it the French word for surprise is.

I'm surprised so many folks here didn't know how well KH was doing. All the evidence was there.

[KrazyHorse]

AKA slightly less than Mrs KrazyHorse.

Unfortunately I was counting both our incomes to get there. She has a reasonable hoighty toity 6 figure income...

[Wiglaf]

Honestly it's not hard to make six figures, unless you have given up on life. Air traffic controllers make 6 figures, and they effectively caused 9/11, so if you aren't even meeting their salary you should probably consider becoming an air traffic controller. Just be sure to notice when planes go missing and crash into buildings because that is evidently NOT something that should be happening, and definitely should be reported.

[Captain ******* Kirk]

My rent is less than 2500 a month.

Well done.

[regexcellent]

My rent is less than $600 a month.

[MikeH]

Unfortunately I was counting both our incomes to get there. She has a reasonable hoighty toity 6 figure income...

[Dr Strangelove]

Actuslly I knew KH wa well off.
The last remnants of my mortgage payments is $100 / mo.
KH should buy a house. With that kind of income he can easily afford 800K to 1 million dollars. Does he want his kid to grow up above the meqn old lady? Some day KH is going to come home and the little tyke will say: "Daddy! You parked in front of the store! Move your car!"

[KrazyHorse]

Still way less than mine

[MikeH]

All the cool people have wives who earn more than them.

[MRT144]

It is the lowest you can pay in the center of a very rich NYC suburb to get a nice 2br apt.

For comparison, a 4br house outside the town center would go for 800k-1MM. Mortgage would be ~3500-4000 and property taxes + insurance would be another 500-1000 a month. Mortgage would be (partly) tax deductible, so bring it down to a total of 3500-4000.

Also, it should be noted that my rent is only a very small fraction (mid single digit percentage) of my income. I could economize further, but would have to sacrifice pretty concrete utility in terms of space (share a br with my kid) or commuting distance (fairly bad tradeoff, given that I value my time at >100 an hour).

If you want to give your kid a complex you should sleep in the same bedroom and tout your thrift every single night before bed.

[The Mad Monk]

and tout your thrift every single night

Is that what they're calling it now?

[MikeH]

Oh, there's no touting your thrift with a new baby in the house.