Not really when our minimum wage for the entire state is still $7.25 an hour, unless you work in restaurants then it’s lower, Most places now start you out at around $12-15 an hour. Then taxes for everything. Privileged tax for working in other counties. Rentals are even worse for people as they are asking for unrealistic things 2x to 4x times the income even for rentals. Credit rating can be doable as its usually asking for about a 650 credit score, no criminal activity. But it’s the rental prices where they are literally roughly the same now as a home mortgage in our area. We live in the sub-suburbs , we’re an hour an half outside of Pittsburgh, and these new landlords bought up all the places are now charging anywhere between $1,000.00 a month to as high as $2,700.00 a month for rent because they want multiple people living in the homes so the rent is shared between house members, and instead they are making it harder for just couples with and without children to be able to afford anything to live in that isn’t owned by a slumlord.