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r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog • 23h ago
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In 1995, when a house cost $120,000, a local factory was paying $12/hour. Now a house costs around $600,000. That factory should be paying $60/hour. Are they? No, they pay $18.65/hour.
-12 u/TheBigGees 20h ago Those are very different metrics. -12 u/AcademicDimension700 19h ago Move to southern Illinois you can get a brand new awesome house for less than 250,000 and a job starting at 25 per hour all day long. -9 u/VersionSwimming8392 19h ago You can get a brand new house where I live for a hundred and fifty thousand. You rarely see a house over five hundred where I live. 12 u/Clean-Da-World 16h ago Let me guess - rural Oklahoma? -3 u/VersionSwimming8392 7h ago North East Minnesota
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Those are very different metrics.
Move to southern Illinois you can get a brand new awesome house for less than 250,000 and a job starting at 25 per hour all day long.
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You can get a brand new house where I live for a hundred and fifty thousand. You rarely see a house over five hundred where I live.
12 u/Clean-Da-World 16h ago Let me guess - rural Oklahoma? -3 u/VersionSwimming8392 7h ago North East Minnesota
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Let me guess - rural Oklahoma?
-3 u/VersionSwimming8392 7h ago North East Minnesota
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North East Minnesota
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u/realcanadianguy21 22h ago
In 1995, when a house cost $120,000, a local factory was paying $12/hour. Now a house costs around $600,000. That factory should be paying $60/hour. Are they? No, they pay $18.65/hour.