โข POLL: I'm curious about the demographics of geminispace -Would you consider yourself financially well-off? โข ยท ยท ยท Results ยท ยท ยท ยท [1] 40% โข Yes (4 votes) ยท ยท [2] 30% โข No (3 votes) ยท ยท [3] 30% โข I don't know (3 votes) ยท ยท ยท โข ยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยทยท โข
11 months ago
[1] ยท 11 months ago
[3] this depresses me ยท 11 months ago
@cobradile94 I know! I'm thinking on switching careers at least for a while. I could live below my means for a few years, but our needs as a family has changed, and perhaps looking for a better income in a different discipline would be convenient. Let's see... ยท 11 months ago
[3] Well... As a married couple in north of MX, we are stuggling to get enough income to buy a house. But we can rent a decent place, and enjoy a few opportunities. We have a good internet access, we can work-from-home and sometimes outside, we can travel and have more vacations than the minimum amount in this country. We are semi-confortable in the middle class. So I guess, it's more a yes, than a no. ยท 11 months ago
[1] - to me, well-off means I can pay all my monthly bills and still have a little left over to do some of the things I want to do. Not all of them, of course, but enough to break the monotony of the daily grind. ยท 11 months ago
[1] I think. But that is only because I live _very_ below my means and I don't have a GF/partner yet. Otherwise likely approaching 2. ยท 11 months ago
[2] big change in circumstances over last two years, infirm parent care responsibilities forced early retirement. ยท 11 months ago
[2] ยท 11 months ago
[2] Game Dev pays very little ยท 11 months ago
for the sake of odin, excuse my bad grammar, i had some beers and english is not my native language... ยท 11 months ago
a few years ago, i moved back to my parents to support them, so them have no to pay for a cook, a gardener, doing laundry and so on. i am in my 40th, and i have not to pay rent, food and stuff. we have a quite good coexistence and one time when they're gone i will have a shitload of money and house and ground and stuff, so, i think i am fscking whealty... will never have to work again in my life. thanks to my parents, they cared me for all over my lifetime, i have such a luck with them. ยท 11 months ago
Right now yes, [1], but I go through periods of intentionally not earning money and living life entirely on my own terms, and in those situations I spend almost everything I have and it switches back. ยท 11 months ago
I'll go ahead and put in my own answer - [3]. I live with my parents who would be considered upper middle class but my own income is not consistent enough to be taxable, mostly a couple hundred USD here and there for developing websites and other odd jobs. Still, we share a fridge and they don't want to charge their only son rent, so that's not really badly-off. ยท 11 months ago