My gripe with "living wage" is the term (to me) is too subjective.

MIT's living wage [0] seems to include car ownership (despite King county having a decent public transit system and I know several people that don't have cars working in tech). My first place in a great part of town was $1,400/mo in a roomshare. The podments are as low as $750/mo, but MIT says you need at least $2k/mo.

[0] - https://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/53033

>My gripe with "living wage" is the term (to me) is too subjective.

Yes, what is considered "livable" varies wildly from person to person.

I live in Redmond. A decent house is 1.2 million dollars here.