If you're not picky about having a large place or something, the basic homes--at least in Olympia--are super cheap and finding a low-paying job is enough to live by. I'd imagine Wyver has a similar setup. There's a lot of higher paying jobs depending on your capabilities.

[She thinks further over his questions, trying not to linger on the thought of friends waking up. He's a whole lot more optimistic about that than she is.]

I don't think monsters have attacked either, at least not yet.