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No one is moaning. I'm pointing out that envying someone making more than you is a pointless exercise.

• vacri 11y ago
  You were making a nonsense value judgement that a 150k+ engineer would take home less than a 40k engineer in a different place. Both places take a third in income tax at those levels. I don't know how much rent is in Turkey, 40k is 27k after a third is taken for tax - if you wanted to match even this number, that means you would have to be paying $73k in rent in SV, even higher than I was suggesting. So yes, "probably take home less than you" is definitely moaning and has no substance. It's playing to the "omg, I'm so poor" crap that's prevalent in some parts of our industry. Living expenses are higher in first-world countries and that does need to be taken into account, but claiming to have less money than someone on a quarter of your wage "because tax and rent" is nonsensical self-pity.
  • dkarapetyan 11y ago
    You should relax and tone it back a little bit. I already said several times you are taking things a little too literally so by all means move to SF and make as much as all those rich developers if you want.
    • vacri 11y ago
      You're apparently just very bad with numbers. "Once" != "Several times".