<prompt> Human: Currently living in California, im just wondering the opinions of how much hourly wage do you need to live comfortably.. Including a house, a car, kids, and a comfortable living as in stress free Am i gonna eat this month kind of stress. Im currently barely making enough to live on my own. Whats my goal to raise a family have kids, and live on my own? average rent of a 2 bedroom house is about 1700 where I live.Assistant: So you will need to pay 20000year in rent alone. Take that as a comfortable 25 of salary, you need to make 80,000year post tax. That works out to be 40hour after tax or probably closer to 55hr pretax.Human: ouch! how do people do it when the median wage is 52k a year!The salary to rent ratio is way off in california or something.  <response>: California isnt normal. 