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by jcranberry 3230 days ago
I've never seen such bullshit! I live in Chinatown with a 100k salary. According to this website the median is 111k salary, with 11k discretionary income.

I have a decent place in Manhattan (Chinatown), which I'm paying $800/mo for (split with 2 friends), absolutely not paying 5.3k/y for transportation (3 subway cards a month??), and I have NO idea what these mystical $1500/mo miscellaneous expenses are, unless they could be attributed to savings, $600/mo on groceries is just feckless profligacy--and $500/mo on utilities??? WTF!???

I have so much discretionary income I literally have nothing to do with it except save/reinvest. My two roommates constantly make fun of me for being a spendthrift, but according to this website I must be in the top 25 penny-pinchers in Manhattan...