the cost of living

[topaz]

As I fill out mortgage applications for moving in to Mosaic Commons I can't help but do the math and see that the cost of our mortgage, condo fees, and property taxes adds up to about 40% of my net take-home pay, without even taking heating costs into account. This seems really high to me but maybe I don't have much to compare it to.

[Poll #1363745]

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[enf.livejournal.com]

I may be a little off here because I still haven't finished my taxes this year so I don't know quite how the deductions ended up working out.

It makes me very uncomfortable dedicating this much money to housing but there didn't seem to be any reasonable alternative.