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		Zababa on Dec 26, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My Path to Financial Independence as a Software En... Not really. An appartment alone is $2000 a month according to the post. That's 24% of your income at $100k, and not even 4% at $620k. I don't know how much people in the US usually spend on rent/housing, but anything under 30% of your income seems low to me.

lucaspm98 on Dec 26, 2021 [–]

30-33% of income is the rule of the thumb as the maximum a landlord would accept a tenant to rent in the US.

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