Thanks for all the effort you put into this @livinguktaiwan! So interesting to see these results.

As I suspected, we're pretty screwed, living in one of the most expensive parts of the USA. In retrospect, I would like to add — as a bit of extra perspective — that Washington state also has the highest minimum wage in the USA at US $16.66/hr, compared to (for example) Texas, which still follows the Federal minimum wage of US $7.25/hr.

Relatively speaking, though we still can't really afford our lives, mostly thanks to insanely high rents, as a result of insanely high property prices.