Less for One’s Money
There has been a vast cultural (and personal) overuse of the cliche
“Blank is the new blank,” lately, and the one that my friends
are abusing the most is, “The fifty is the new twenty,” in reference to
yuppie food stamps. This joke has been confirmed, as the
Times remarks on how the six-figure salary has lost its cache and $200K is the new $100K. Though I don’t take the Styles section
very seriously, this article contains a lot of truth; one of the
debates that I constantly engage in at home concerns how $200K/year is
the
bare minimum that a family in SF needs to eek out a decent life.
Addendum: AG has moved this discussion to his site.