Alexander Chee Quotes

When we talk about a city's cost of living, we don't mean food, transportation, or clothing, which cost about the same everywhere. We mean housing.

Living in Korea was a big adjustment because a coffee is going to be a little more pricey than what it is in the States. Wages aren't as high either.

I had decided on L.A. because I felt like I could handle the cost of living out there. It was just too difficult in San Francisco and New York.

These days an income is something you can't live without - or within.

It costs more to feed our dogs than our inmates.

The budget is about day-to-day lives.

Blankets, that used to sell for $6, are now $25 per pair; and sheets are selling for $15 per pair, which might have been had a year ago for $4 …. Wood is selling at $16 per cord, and coal at $9 per load. How can we live here, unless our salaries are increased? The matter is under consideration by Congress, and we hope for favorable action. -

Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth, it buys as long as it has the means to buy.

High-Speed Internet is not only slower in New York City and San Francisco than in Seoul; it also costs five times as much.

Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.

I did just about anything to pay the rent for a while.

A lot of the times, I end up having to do jobs to sort of pay the bills.

The economics of life is against the family.

As a single guy, the baseline of what I needed was so low. I just needed an air mattress, food, and rent money.

Huge numbers of people in London depend on their cars. Fuel duty is becoming a big factor in people's cost of living. I believe in trying to ease these burdens.

I've got a 6,000 square-foot home in Plano that probably costs as much as a three-bedroom house in Van Nuys.

I think that people need a livable wage.

I've lived on $400 a month in college. I've lived on it fine.

Can you imagine what five or 10 dollars was like in 1925? In those days, you could get room and board for $1.50 a week. Room and board!

I was working a full-time job but not having anything in my savings account at the end of the month because of my bills and because acting in the beginning costs money.

I'm based in San Francisco, although I don't usually stay long in one place because we are always moving, we are always on the road. So most of the time, we stay in hotels.

Economic security can feel like an impossible goal when you're living paycheck to paycheck, deciding between paying the light bill or the water bill, knowing the decision to pay either one may mean you can't put food on the table.

Rent and the cost of essentials like food and child care are rising so fast that wages are not keeping up.

As long as I can pay rent, that's all I care about.

In South Florida, where there are so many beneficiaries, when Social Security isn't adjusted to reflect their increased costs, that affects their daily lives and their contributions to our local economy.