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My rent was less than that in the aughts.
There are people in my hometown that have car payments higher than their mortgage payments.
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My mortgage is less than that today.
(Although TBF, that's because I bought during the Great Recession -- I wouldn't be able to afford to re-buy the same house today.)
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Oregon is the one that surprises me.
All the other green states are the low income states (except for the north east states like Maine, and that little corner).
But then there's Oregon, right between yellow California, and yellow Washington.
I'm also surprised NY is yellow. I thought the bulk of their population was JUST NYC. And most people in NYC don't even own cars.
Or is this a percentage of car owners only?
Oregon isn’t just Portland. The rest of the state isn’t nearly as developed. Same for NY - yes, huge population in NYC but there’s still a lot of people in nyc suburbs with money and cars.
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So color coding tells us 15 - 19% of people paying more than $1000/m is normal or the edge. I guess this decision is arbitrary, so I suggest a one-dimensional color scale.
It is likely representative of the statistics that form the graph, so how about instead of randomly inventing an entirely new representation we stick to color coded percentage buckets.
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