Defining Success

[Pedro]

Where I live here in north jersey, id say around $150k to be comfortable with a small family. $100k if you're on your own to be comfy with with some expendable income.

Even around the city, Hoboken, Jersey City, etc. $100k plus is necessary if you're on your own. And thats not leaving much extra.

[Lawn Guyland]

just another reason i hate this area

bust your ass to make money just so you can get by

[Chaos]

I put no monetary value on success. I may be broke often but I have the following:
1) I'm married to my high school love
2) I have my own home in this economy
3) I have everything I need
4) My bills are on time and my credit is improving

...and I'm in a vehicle I love.

I consider that success in this day and age.

[Buffalo Phil]

just another reason i hate this area

bust your ass to make money just so you can get by

Pretty soon it will be like that everywhere as taxes go up and the middle class is taxed to no end to pay for the lower classes.

[cherokee-at-16]

I'm going to school to be a teacher(not that that's what I will do my entire life) I felt it was a good path to live a very decent life. It starts at around 40k with benifits and pension(for now) and goes up by about another grand each year. Get a masters they up your sallery like 5 grand, get a 6th year degree another 5k. Do anything else at the school + 1 or 2 or 3 grand stipend. And you only work 9 out of 12 months a year. Teaching does not make me what i would concider a successful amount. Ibelieve around 100k is a successful number for where i grew up and live in down town Milford. The guy down the streets a physicist....

[DrThunder]

Eastern CT,
For a single person I would say 80k to live comfortable.

A successful couple should live comfortably on 130k.

[Zullock Holmes]

success to me depends on your legacy, what's left after you're gone.

If you make a lot of money, and no one knows who you are or remembers you when you are gone, then I don't consider that a successful life.

But, if you leave behind a name for yourself, live a good life, and your influence carries on in other people after you are gone.... Then that is a successful life.

The most successful people are the ones that never die. Like mai boi, Tommy Jeff 'murica


ohh yea but being a millionaire wouldn't bother me none.

[92xjlaredo]

im single. have a job that i cannot stand. piece of shit cars and motorcycles that im not sure will run or not. and i live paycheck to paycheck. but yano what im 100% okay with that, maybe its because of my tender age and stupidity of youth but being around people that i care about and having those people feel the same way is the most important thing for me to be successful. money will never replace the people or relationships i have with those people in my life....i hope that never changes. there really is no dollar figure to attach to it if youre asking me.

[sardo_67]

i'd just need 1 mil.......

[lilnapsak]

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[BOX]

If money isn't your defining metric, what is?

How many miles I live away from LA, NY, & San Fran. The higher the number the better off I am.

993 miles to San Fran
2,226 to NY
1,064 miles to LA

[Burton58]

Doug's absolutely right

[Nick]

How many miles I live away from LA, NY, & San Fran. The higher the number the better off I am.

993 miles to San Fran
2,226 to NY
1,064 miles to LA

I think your ultimate happiness likely lies on a boat somewhere off Australia in the Indian Ocean.

[Burton58]

I think your ultimate happiness likely lies on a boat somewhere off Australia in the Indian Ocean.

And become a pirate

[BOX]

I think your ultimate happiness likely lies on a boat somewhere off Australia in the Indian Ocean.

while still being in the US (lower 48)