Are we supposed to throw Buttgig and his hubby a pitty party?? Buttgig is making over $200,000 a year and they can't afford $4,500 in rent??? Rent equates to $54,000, which leaves them $146,000 a year or appx. $12,000 a month to live on. I think they need to take a look at their dang budget!!!
Buttigieg, husband Chasten mocked for complaining about $4,500 rent in DC U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is getting roasted on social media after his husband complained about rent prices in Washington, D.C., claiming they couldn’t afford anything bigger than a one-bedroom apartment.
In an interview with The Washington Post, Buttigieg's husband, Chasten Buttigieg, said their new Eastern Market digs are a far cry from the price of living in their old city of South Bend, Indiana, where Pete served as mayor from 2012 to 2020.
"We couldn’t afford the one-bedroom-plus-den," Chasten said.
Instead, they’re renting an 800-square-foot, one-bedroom apartment, sans den, in a high-security building, where the rent for one-bedrooms now starts at $4,500 per month, The Post reported, adding that the rent is higher since the Buttigieges signed a lease last winter.
"We’re doing fine for ourselves, and [yet] the city is almost unaffordable," Chasten told the paper. "Which tells you how extremely unaffordable it is for many people."
The transportation secretary’s salary is $221,400, while Chasten, a former middle school drama teacher, is currently unemployed. In addition to their D.C. apartment, the couple owns a home on Lake Michigan in Traverse City, which they purchased this year after selling their home in South Bend, The Post reported. ................
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chasten-buttigieg-mocked-complaining-4500-rent-dc
