I'd also like to chip in that alcoholism is sneaky. Be careful with drinking

I don't know about the other locations but in Seattle the reserve is striking. That location is HUGE, often has a line stretching around the block, and can get through a few people a minute. Starbucks is losing bonkers money on that location striking this time of year

This would be fantastic on a record spinning around

Family sizes have been trending down as more kids survive. Imagine how many kids they must have had following that trend to the stone age

Shortly after getting my steam deck and seriously learning Linux past tiny personal servers, I got divorced

I consider $100k to be minimum wage in Seattle. It was just enough to not be constantly money stressed as long as I was living modestly. I could see doctors, invest in hobbies, have choices in food, build savings/retirement. Could not eat out every day, buy a house any time soon, or impulse buy particularly expensive stuff. Any time I made less than $100k here I felt like I was always two steps behind, at about that salary my life stopped focusing on scraping by. I make more now and I feel like I'm actually thriving here. Still quite a difference in what I'd consider to be middle class though like there's no way I can get a house here and I'd for sure be much worse off if I had kids