I make about $150k but I also live in the San Francisco Bay Area so, while I'm comfortable renting an apartment and being able to save for retirement, I know I am far from being able to afford property. (I could move away but all my family is here.) So I'd say I'm currently satisfied only because I've come to terms with never having that complete housing security.
I was. I was making 100k AUD, able to support another through University and easily pay my relatively small mortgage.
With interest rates gone up, I’m paying 50% more for the mortgage, and bigger increase than that on food, gas, electricity, rates and hot water. We are on the edge of comfortable, though our budget still has a little fat we can trim. I don’t like the effective pay decrease I’ve had this last while, so no; I would be happy going back to two years ago levels of comfort.