The Real Cost of Building a Life in America: Salary, Visas, Taxes & Trade-Offs | Khushi Jain | FWS

Download 1% Club App Now! https://app.onepc.io/?c=fws-yt-kj In this episode, Sharan travels to New York City to meet Khushi Jain, a 25-year-old Indian content creator and entrepreneur who moved from Gurgaon to the US at 18 and has built her career there since. Known online as @justanotherhappygirl, she has grown an audience of close to half a million followers on Instagram, graduated from New York University, and is now building Prezrve, an on-demand marketplace that connects founders, brands and couples with local creators, videographers and photographers who can shoot content for them. What makes this conversation useful is how specific it gets. Khushi breaks down the actual numbers behind living in Manhattan: roughly $85,000 a year in US college fees, rent that starts upwards of $10,000 a month in Manhattan and drops to $5,000–$6,000 in Brooklyn, Queens or Astoria, a household budget of about $10,000 a month for a couple, and an effective tax rate in the 30–35% range for most earn