I live in St. Louis which is a miserable city with high crime, high taxes, bad weather, no mountains, no beach, etc... but $1400 goes a long way. My mortgage payment is only $449 a month. I just did the math and all my utility bills, insurance, gym membership, and property tax would run 1,134 a month. So it is definitely doable. Probably impossible in New England or California.
A better option would be a diet high in good fats (e.g. avacado) high in nutrient dense veg and 4oz. or so of protein. High fruit diet is generally unnecessary and typically far more sugar than needed (stick with berries). As an aside - organic milk is garbage just like conventional. Do a bit of looking for some local goat milk options and if that's too expensive I'd just forgo milk for water / herbal tea / kombucha / etc. Rice is honestly not that great of an option. Eggs if you can get pastured otherwise don't bother because you are likely buying a very shitty watered down version of what eggs should be. If you are steaming vegetables (which is an ok cooking method for only some of them) be sure not to steam longer than necessary (generally speaking the range is typically 5-7 minutes optimally). Grow your own. Save more money that way and it's better for you if you know what you are doing. Otherwise buy local and do your homework. Worst case buy in store but stay the hell out of the middle of it and along the edges.
Man can truly live on Mac and Cheese alone. Add in another 40 cents for the ancillary ingredients, and you have like 1000 days of food on the $1400 stimmy,
And that's just food for like a week. What about housing expenses? Assume you get a roomate, the average rent for a 2-bedroom apartment is like what $1000? So 2 people, that's $500 each plus all the utilities, gas, electricity, hot water and etc.? Even assuming $500 covers everything, that's only going to cover 2 months. Another 2 months, the total rent alone is $2000. That $1400 is supposed to cover FOUR months of EVERYTHING, rent, food, clothing, transportation, personal hygiene...!!
Yeah that's ONE month. This clueless report is saying $1400 is supposed to cover all the monthly expenses for FOUR months. A $1,400 stimulus check will allow 22.6 million Americans to pay their bills in full through mid-July, new report finds A $1,400 stimulus checks by March 1, would help 22.6 million Americans to pay their bills in full through mid-July without going into debt, according to a report released by Morning Consult on Friday. https://www.businessinsider.com/sti...n-americans-pay-bills-through-mid-july-2021-2 Am I the only one who is seeing these texts?? And p.s. get yourself out of there! If it's such a miserable city like you described, how are you going to sell your house in the future?
Mac and cheese mixes well with cotton socks. Adds fiber to the diet. Hehe, I know what yer saying JSOP, and I agree. the idjits at that institute do not recall what living day to day is like, because they are all rich assholes who have nary a scientific bone in their heads.
I know like I said before, they must be from the planet of Pluto and are using the cost figure from Pluto. LOL
The best is if you live in a remote area where your neighbour is like a street away. You can get a hunting license and you hunt for animals on your own and you grow your vegetables in your own backyard. Have a friend who hunts and he says the huge game animals that he kills lasts him several months. North American soil is pretty fertile so you are gonna have pretty good harvest every year. That way you have both your protein and vegetables covered and you just need to buy some fruits once in a while. For carbs, you just get some flour, knead the dough and make your own bread. The house in remote area is dirt cheap. You can get one for like $200K. With a living arrangement like this, you MIGHT just MIGHT be able to stretch the $1400 over FOUR months.
I am stuck here because of my kids. The irony is people are lining up to buy houses here. My house is worth 4 times what I paid for it, so either way I will be okay. When I moved in the neighborhood I thought I got a good deal... but now I see schmucks moving in paying 4 times and I feel sorry for them.
I don't mind the bad weather and the high taxes (although if the infrastructure is all crumbling down that means there is corruption as the gov's is doing s***) but the high crime should be enough of a deterrent. I mean what's the point of living in some place when you are constantly getting attacked? People are moving in there prob. because there is no choice. They can't afford to live anywhere else. Hopefully when more decent people move in, it will slowly drive the crimes out.