Here’s a math problem that’ll blow your mind: what if your entire monthly budget for rent, food, and keeping the lights on was less than what some people pay just for a studio apartment in a major city?
Kendallville, Indiana is where this mathematical miracle actually exists in real life.
While folks in coastal cities are performing financial gymnastics just to afford ramen noodles and a closet-sized apartment, people in Kendallville are living like actual human beings on budgets that sound fictional.
This northeast Indiana town of about 10,000 residents has somehow avoided the memo that everything needs to cost an arm, a leg, and possibly your firstborn child…