No Middle-Class Family Can Live Like ‘The Simpsons’ Anymore, Census Shows

https://www.cracked.com/article_46285_no-middle-class-family-can-live-like-the-simpsons-anymore-census-shows.html

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  2. I can barely pay rent and groceries for myself let alone buy a house and pay for 3 kids.

  4. I don’t disagree with the sentiment but there’s a lot of nuclear plants across the country in low cost of living areas where you probably could live like the Simpsons with a single job as an engineer at the plant.

  5. Frank Grimes called this out decades ago.  It’s been true for a long ass time.

  7. To be fair the average nuclear power plant operator could still afford the lifestyle on one income.

  8. Another reason to let The Simpsons die, it had a good initial run a then a LONG, miserable and agonizing death.

  9. I knew it was a lie when I tried to apply at the local nuclear plant.

  11. Could they ever though? Aren’t they in massive debt and living beyond their means? They could only afford their house thanks to down payment support from Homer’s Dad and even then they have multiple mortgages and have defaulted on payments. 

    The Simpson have always been a parody of the American Dream. On paper they have a house, two cars, three kids, a dog and a cat, but behind the curtains it’s a shitshow and things are falling apart financially, emotionally, physically, professionally… 

    The Simpson have always been a too-real representation of the middle class which is why it’s had such broad and lasting appeal. That’s the whole point.

  12. Dammit, why do I always base my real world expectations on a cartoon family?!

  13. A nuclear control panel operator is a pretty well paying job. 120-150k or so.

    A Midwestern house in say Ohio is 250k or so.

    So with a 150k salary, a median house and two used cars can afford the Simpson’s lifestyle.

  15. The Simpson was literally a parody on the Nuclear family and how bullshit it all was.

    What seems incredibly now is that even this ‘poor’ family is seen as unachievable

  16. Kids I went to school with back in the ’80s and early ’90s had parents who worked at the local nuclear power plant. In a rural area like that, such jobs are not “Middle-Class”. Those folks were among the wealthy element of the community.

  18. Duh. America is now represented by the show “shameless.”

  19. False. The mean wage for a nuclear power plant operator is $ 121,240. Plenty of places you can still live on that.

  20. The simpsons couldnt afford it either. homer’s dad sold his own home to buy them theirs

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