[The Outdoors] Sleep System Followup II

[marianlh]

I've been working full time and also my annual winter cough showed up early and brought the flu with it, so I haven't had much free time or energy to post lately. But I can report on the sleeping pad, having used it for four nights now

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[johnlh]

Sorry to hear about the cold!

I hear you on the annoying zippers on lower cost sleeping bags. Our furnace is out, and our landlord is waiting on parts. So, as it dips down to the 60s through 40s, we've been setting the girls up with sleeping bags. And, those zippers are maddening! (Doubly so when you get a little girl into one slowly, then when they're finally tucked in they go "Oh, I forgot something!" and shoot out of it like a bullet)

Sorry to hear about the illness too; since I lost a good chunk of my stomach and my gallbladder, it seems like a cup of water for breakfast will have me running to the bathroom all morning. :P I can say, anti-diarrhea tablets can work wonders in that situation, although they can work too well too; take a few too many and you're on the opposite but equally uncomfortable end of the tummy spectrum.

All in all though, we humans are damned adaptable creatures, aren't we?

I admit, as winter gets closer, I was checking out rents in your area, in hopes of pointing you in a positive direction to get a roof over you this year. And... yeah, I continue to see the problem you're facing. The price range of the majority of Newark OH apartments, is 2% of the housing market in your area. The average there is three times the prices I'm used to paying.

Maybe the election will go another way, all of the Dem money will flow back into Washington, and you could finally wind up doing the kind of work you set out to do, only under the Warren administration? A man can dream...

[marianlh]

Speaking of which, here's a method of calculating what a living wage would be for a given housing market, based on the mean rent for the area:

https://keitrinkomfloukru.tumblr.com/post/187359456595/minimum-wage-should-be-indexed-to-2-of-a-citys

The short version: the minimum hourly wage should be 2% of the area's mean rent. Mean, not median. This means that someone working 40 hours a week will spend 1/3rd of their income on housing.

By that metric, a living wage for where I live would be $25.14/hr. New York City's, $56/hr. San Francisco's, $67.40/hr.

According to some quick googling, Columbus Ohio's mean rent is $896. So a living wage there is $17.92/hr.