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-34 points

So your average rent is still only 4% of your average income. You’d still have 48k left over after paying rent.

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30 points

Different timescale; Average income is annual, and rent is monthly

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-23 points

That’s confusing. Why not use the same time scale? And what country quotes rent monthly? We do weekly here. Monthly rent makes no sense because months are different lengths.

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27 points

Rent is the US is typically monthly.

As far as potentially stupid things the US does, this is pretty far down the list.

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10 points

Monthly rent makes no sense because months are different lengths.

Eh, we typically sign one-year leases here in the US, so the only real effect of paying 1/12 of the total annual rent amount every month is slight adjustments of the due dates.

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10 points

Interesting, if you pay weekly here you likely live in a shitty hotel with heroin addicts.

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Where I live rent is usually described in fortnightly periods, despite being paid weekly. I’m pretty sure most of the rest of the west uses monthly, so I don’t think it’s particularly confusing to describe rent that way (at the very least, I wasn’t confused?).

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Stupid Americans down voting me 🤣

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6 points

That 50k is pre tax and insurance too

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1 point

So was the 30k.

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