[jethro_tell]

I'd love to read this. Is it just an interest piece or is there some statistical data that goes with it? I know there are a lot of people who are not in a great place in cities. I also know, there are a lot of people not in great places in rural areas.

For my situation personally, it's never been an issue, and it's not for the people in our social circles. We were never going to be a single income household, it's not something either of us have ever wanted. The thing with cities, is you can't move to a city and do things the same as you do when you didn't live in a city. You've got to find a way to drop commuting, live in smaller spaces, be closer to thing things that you love. I know a lot of people who have moved to the city but can't live in a small space, so they buy a house out on the edge then spend hundreds of dollars and countless hours commuting into the city and it just breaks them. I can understand how they'd want to live else where but even then, when I talk to them, they are turning down job offers in non-coastal cities.

[aspenmayer]

I think this is the piece mentioned. They have an expense/income breakdown of each family from my quick skim. Google query was "new york times four families iowa" just in case that helps.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/03/your-money/mi...