I made it on 22k/yr in SF just 15 years ago. That paid for rent, food, utils and a DSL line. That's it. No eating out, no cell phone, few nights a month go out for a beer with friends. Gotta start somewhere, and that's where I started.
This dope goes to college to get a mostly worthless degree, and immediately want to live like her middle-class parents. She believes she is entitled to it NOW. She will be that person that is 45 working a register at CVS moaning about how unfair it all is.