Is rent too damn high, or are wages too damn low? DC topped the list of minimum wage hours needed to afford a two-bedroom apartment at 140 hours/week, according to a map published by Upworthy.com.

Hot on DC's heels are New Jersey with 138 hours, Maryland with 137, and New York with 136. Neighboring Virginia only needs 112 hours, but that figure would more than likely be higher for an isolated Northern Virginia. View the full map here.

Start saving up! Ron and Cheryl Hubbard are selling their 27,000 square-foot chateau in Clifton, Virginia. The couple is citing that the maintance of the three story, seven bedroom, nine baths estate is too much to handle. Shocking!

The five acre manse seems like something out of Downton Abby or a Jane Austen novel instead of a nice humble home in suburbia. What ever happened to the simple white picket fence, two car garage, and a nice backyard for the kids to play wiffle ball? Well, it seems that we're trading in that American dream for a fever fantasy of Liberace or Marie Antoinette with indoor swimming pools and in-home art galleries. More»