Half of Reddit personal finance conversations are:
‘Can’t believe people can’t live on (some arbitrary amount)!’
And ‘I can’t even rent a shitty apt in the worst part of where I live on (some arbitrary amount)!’
‘Well just move to for a lower COL then!’
Yeah, where there are barely enough jobs that pay 0.5 * (some arbitrary amount) and it is objectively often worse for queer POC