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Novax___Djocovid t1_ixxkkqq wrote

Reply to comment by micha8st in Am I able to manage this? by [deleted]

they gave us 3 weeks to return to the office. yeah I was almost 2 hours from the office. The 1391 is the place I moved to that's close to my office.

>My rule of thumb I heard way back in the dark ages was no more than 1/4 of gross salary for rent. 1/4 of 6.4k = 1.6k.

makes sense, but why gross and not net?

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9pmt1ll1come t1_ixxlc24 wrote

25% tax, 25% savings/retirement, 25% housing, 25% living expenses.

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ITinMN t1_ixxl03q wrote

Ah, I've done 2-hour commutes before.
Granted it was via public transportation (and something that only would have been around 40 minutes otherwise), but still, it's not like you're in Kazakhstan or something.

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micha8st t1_ixxlqsv wrote

The idea of the rule-of-thumb is to use as a guide - as an upper bound. Lower, of course, is better.

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