> It's easily into the 'diminishing returns' category in terms of lifestyle.
It is, but a burger and fries and Five Guys cost me $20 yesterday, and that isn't exactly living it up.
The nice pizza places around me charge nearly $30 for a Pizza.
tl;dr shit is expensive and it is really easy to get excited with an Uber order and realize dinner from an Indian takeout place is going to cost $120. (I've pretty much give up on Uber and I just go pick up the food now, saves a good $20-$30, and some restaurants give sizable discounts for NOT ordering through a food delivery app!)
To me fast food in general is slumming it. I don’t care the place, I can produce similar if not better food at home for a fraction of the price. And I‘d much rather go out to a restaurant with my wife and actually enjoy myself with the atmosphere, the staff, and the food rather than go get some fast food that makes me feel horrid the rest of the day, let alone picking up restaurant food to eat at home where I‘m charged for everything I just mentioned that I don’t get to enjoy.
Having an occasional Indian takeout isn't living it up, but having $120 Indian takeout every night and spending $43,800 a year on dinner is.
We will all have different definitions of living it up, but I would say you can live a good food lifestyle if you can afford HelloFresh/BlueApron or high quality ingredients for cooking and go out 1-2 times a week.
It is, but a burger and fries and Five Guys cost me $20 yesterday, and that isn't exactly living it up.
The nice pizza places around me charge nearly $30 for a Pizza.
tl;dr shit is expensive and it is really easy to get excited with an Uber order and realize dinner from an Indian takeout place is going to cost $120. (I've pretty much give up on Uber and I just go pick up the food now, saves a good $20-$30, and some restaurants give sizable discounts for NOT ordering through a food delivery app!)