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[Sympthsical]

8. 10% starts in about the $200k range

Depending where you live. California, for example, has a $340k starting range.

I know people in that range. Tech and healthcare mostly. Once I finish school, my partner and I will be up there (both healthcare).

They're all definitely still shopping at those kinds of places. Our mainstays are Costco, Home Depot, and Marshall's (for reasons I cannot possibly fathom).

The K-shaped recovery has been a thing. But no one cared until, oh I dunno, 2025 for some reason. I've been banging the drum on this forever. If you already were ok, you'll mostly remain ok. But if you are not ok or were barely hanging on, life has gotten more difficult.

It was the entire 2024 election in a nutshell, but people didn't want to talk about it, because it might manifest the bad spirits or something. That's why we kept getting stories about the best stock market evah! and ignored that grocery prices were kind of a thing.