What is enough?

[MadHound]

What is enough for a person to comfortably live on? A small house and modest income? A McMansion and a large income? No more than five acres of land? Just what is enough for a person?

[jwirr]

1. If you are a farmer you may need a little more than 5 acres. My father

farmed 40 acres when they were farming with horses and 80 acres with a little tractor.

[FiveGoodMen]

2. A socialist might say it was roughly 1/300,000,000th of America's wealth

[Ship of Fools]

3. According to some kook job: A refrigerator, car, TV. That's enough.

[renate]

4. I think security has a LOT to do with the answer to that question

We need very little in our day-to-day lives--food and shelter at a minimum, transportation and health care when we need it, and ideally some coin to spend on entertainment or travel or some other source of fun.

But to me, "enough" also means a sense that it couldn't all be lost with a single stroke of bad luck.

[Warpy]

5. I have a paid for shabby fixer in a bad neighborhood

and I've been living well on $24,000/year for 5 years. That includes multiple eye surgeries and one hospitalization for septic shock.

I know that because my income is fixed and I've saved everything I haven't spent on living expenses.

[meow2u3]

6. I'd be happy with a one-bedroom apartment or a small house in a quiet neighborhood

I'm just one person; a small, single floor house or a three room apartment, along with a middle income would do it for me.

The only "luxuries" I really need are a reliable car and high-speed internet. The web is my lifeline to the outside world and a decent, reliable car would be perfect for me. I don't want to be stranded in the middle of nowhere with a broken-down car.

[tinkerbell41]

7. For my family of 2?

About 55 grand a year. I was very happy then.

[slackmaster]

8. I won't be happy until I kidnap an heiress, and threaten her with a knife.

Get cable TV, and watch it every night.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgjfi1DU1mQ

[kentuck]

9. For most Americans...

Fifty thousand per year would be a very comfortable lifestyle...

[cutlassmama]

10. enough would be housing, food, clean water, clothing, and necessities. Many

people in this country and certainly other countries don't even have that.

[chillspike]

11. Food, shelter, warmth, a little love & the Internet (nt)

[lunatica]

12. If I had $500 more per month I would live without worries and still save a small amount

Unless I lost my job. I have nothing to fall back on because I was forced to use up all my retirement taking care of my mother for 5 years. As it is now, any extra expense, like having to fix the brakes on my car puts my further in the hole. It's getting harder and harder to make ends meet and it takes a toll.