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I worry about my friends and relatives who are paying enormously inflated costs for the big three (housing, food and transportation).

How does anyone think anyone except those of us making high wages can make it? People are treading water at this point.

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I think of it as the "big two" and it's housing and healthcare :-/ No other one thing exceeds half of either one of those.

[EDIT] Necessarily exceeds, I guess I should say. My food budget exceeds half of either of those, but that's mostly laziness and luxury. I could easily cut that a ton and barely even suffer for it.

the big three are housing, healthcare and education

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