All ideas of fair pay aside (which I agree that he should get a raise!)
I don’t understand how he couldn’t afford $2,500 per month on $70,000 per year. Wouldn’t his take home per month be around $4,000-4,500?
Not that it would be easy to live on the remainder necessarily …. But I know I have at one point lived on $2,800 per month while paying $1,200. (In a lower cost of living area ).
I thought it was a bit odd that he only seems to be considering living in Westwood.
I checked out the site referenced, and there's suburbs reasonably close with average rents 30-40% lower than that suburb. That's within a ~45 min. bus ride, according to Google.
Also damn, there's even free wifi on some of those buses.
> I don’t understand how he couldn’t afford $2,500 per month on $70,000 per year.
People are just terrible at personal finance. I have friends that earn $300K that have no savings.
I suggest watching the YouTube channel Caleb Hammer if you want to truly understand how easy it is for some people to overspend and go into debt.
Technically he’s a lecturer not a professor. Generally lecturers are treated like trash.