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Because even a bog standard 125K a year salary will only go so far in SF. Sunnyvale/Milpitas/Fremont etc are much more desirable in that case
by ZanyProgrammer 11y ago
Because even a bog standard 125K a year salary will only go so far in SF. Sunnyvale/Milpitas/Fremont etc are much more desirable in that case
- ForHackernews 11y ago> even a bog standard 125K a year salary This is a friendly reminder that the median income in SF is around $47k [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco#Education.2C_households.2C_and_income https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco#Education.2C_hou...
- ZanyProgrammer 11y agoI was referring to tech salaries, not the avg San Franciscan in general.
- nitrogen 11y agoAs someone who knows very little about SF neighborhoods other than the stories of tiny $1mil houses, how/where do people earning $47k/yr live in SF?
- ZanyProgrammer 11y agoWith several other people who make in the neighborhood of 47K.
- beachstartup 11y agoin rented rooms. also, in rent controlled apartments leased in earlier decades. there are plenty of people paying <$1k to rent 2 bedroom apartments in SF. that's why there's such an imbalance on the units that do come up for rent.