>>Good article with actual numbers. Conclusion:It's impossible to work your way through college nowadays. Plus that doesn't even take into account other expenses - like textbooks, housing, food..etc etc etc.
I did some approximations here a while back: an in-state student in a Hall of Residence only has to work 85 hours/week to pay all their costs. Maybe not as bad as the 4 Yorkshiremen had it, but lecturing somebody in that situation just breeds resentment and cynicism about the social compact.
>>Median home price here is well over $750,000.
Right, but living in Hawaii is a dream for many! I expect to be there briefly in a few months fwiw, maybe we should catch up this time!
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
