If you can't live on that, you're too stupid to live. And you shouldn't buy a half million dollar house.

Just say you don't pay any bills .....

Depending on where you live that’s nothing. Around here just affording rent on a one-bedroom apartment in a neighborhood where you’re not likely to get shot would be $1.44 million over an average lifetime, and that’s without accounting for inflation. Groceries for one person add another $2.19 million. Water, electricity, phone, internet, and transportation would also be non-luxury needs, and then there’s the medical expenses you’ll inevitably have as you get older.

And all that’s just to live a spartan lifestyle where you have zero comforts, never getting any entertainment materials or eating at even a shitty restaurant, just going to work each day and hoping in your down time to attract a mate that isn’t into people with money.

how much to you spend on groceries for a week?

I spend over $300 a month easy.

if you spend 300 a month and you are paying for groceries for about 50 years you are spending around 180,000 on that alone bills take up huge chunks of this

I need to stop eating then.

1/2 mill?

Where the hell do you live?

$500k is the median home cost in America.

So, a couple of things are out of context. House prices depend on many factors like location, size, and condition. You can maybe say the average 2 bedroom house with 1200 sqft in rural or poor neighborhoods in about $70k. You can start measuring from there. What your meme implies is the fact that people in America like to spend more than they can afford. For example, a middle-class family would rather get in huge debt they can't afford and buy an upper-class home $500+ than buying a humble middle-class home under 200k or a rural bad neighborhood home at 70k. It is their choice, just that lots of people make bad choices.

No. The average median house, for the average family is ...$500k. Period

How many bedrooms house? What size are those? Median seems to exclude all that information now does it? Also, why are families that can't afford a 500k home not buying 70k homes which are available?

Median gives all the information bc it means the middle of average lol

But what is the average 1bd, 2bd? What about br? How many sqft? what is the median on those?

You also have supply and demand. More populated areas have higher cost houses because there is no more room to build... etc. People have choices to afford cheaper homes.

That doesn’t make it typical. Mode is a far more useful metric. Averages are skewed by extreme, atypical values.

And billionaires get permanent tax cuts.
Go figure.