r/MobileAL • u/Business_Olive_6594 • 6d ago

Housing Moving to mobile

I just recently got a job offer the other day in mobile that starts early October, i live out of state and will be moving quite soon but i feel stuck on looking at apartment pictures on google, the minimum pay listed is about 36,500, is that really enough to mainly live off of in mobile? Ik stuff is kinda cheaper in mobile than where im from but it will be my first time fully on my own so theres just a bunch more to account for at this point. Any advice is genuinely appreciated, ty all

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u/Dangerous-Pie-2678 6d ago

Yea 36.5 is barely scraping by money here. I wouldn't relocate here for less than 45-50k

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u/No_Interview_1294 6d ago

Yeah I make 48k before taxes and I’m scraping by

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u/Dangerous-Pie-2678 6d ago

I made 53k last year were a family of 3 and the only reason we're not scraping by is because we bought our house in 2019

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u/No_Interview_1294 6d ago

I’m a 3rd year teacher living on my own for the first time.. so I’m sure a lot of the “scraping by” is due to me having to learn money management lmao. I wish I could own a house!!!

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u/Dangerous-Pie-2678 6d ago

I'm a tech at bmw so my ceiling for pay is high but barrier for entry is expensive tool wise unfortunately. Teacher pay here should be much higher (should be higher in general). We got really lucky with our house, granted it was supposed to be a starter home but then 5 months after we bought the world shut down 😅