In the grand scheme of personal finances, your take home pay is like an apple pie. Your bills are the hungry flock of kids banging their fists on the table to get their share. For renters in America, housing is usually the hungriest of the bunch. Ideally, it would gobble up one-third of the pie anymore than that, and you likely wouldn't have enough to feed the rest.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/across-country-renters-getting-crushed-182200906.html
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