I know my sibling and their partner were easily pulling in $250K+ but living paycheck to paycheck (and piling up debt!) because they lived in a high cost-of-living area but more importantly were spending gobs of money eating out at trendy places for nearly every meal (seriously, when I visited I looked in their cupboards and they were completely fucking empty), buying shittons of expensive clothing, and traveling in luxury. They were easily spending over $1K/week on food alone. It was insane for me to see...if I were making that kind of money, I'd be saving as much of it as possible so that I could free myself from work entirely. Blows my mind when people are fortunate enough to have the opportunity to have so much freedom and instead chain themselves to their jobs with unsustainably extravagant lifestyles.
I know my sibling and their partner were easily pulling in $250K+ but living paycheck to paycheck (and piling up debt!) because they lived in a high cost-of-living area but more importantly were spending gobs of money eating out at trendy places for nearly every meal (seriously, when I visited I looked in their cupboards and they were completely fucking empty), buying shittons of expensive clothing, and traveling in luxury. They were easily spending over $1K/week on food alone. It was insane for me to see...if I were making that kind of money, I'd be saving as much of it as possible so that I could free myself from work entirely. Blows my mind when people are fortunate enough to have the opportunity to have so much freedom and instead chain themselves to their jobs with unsustainably extravagant lifestyles.