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Meh, it's not impossible. My salary went up 50% when I moved here.

• shawndumas 10y ago
  When Yahoo bought Interclick, and then subsequently brought us out, they gave my team CoL bumps that had us at roughly the same level in the Bay Area as we were in South Florida. But we were away from the heat/humidity, lack of undulation, and bugs (flying cockroaches; ugh).
  • rm_-rf_slash 10y ago
    And the bullets.
• lsaferite 10y ago
  Ok, but a 50% salary bump doesn't help as much if you also get a 4x (or more) house cost bump. Before: 100k / 12k ($1k/month) = 88k After: 150k / 48k ($4k/month) = 102k Sure, you say to yourself that you ended up with an extra 14k, but then you need to still factor in the rest of your increased costs. And you should probably recalculate everything as an hourly equivalent since you'll likely add 2 or more hours to your daily commute in exchange for keeping that house cost bump at a mere 4x. The numbers shift based on where you are and how much you make. The point is that a large number of people don't properly factor in all the actual and implicit cost and quality of life changes.
• TwiztidK 10y ago
  I looked at some pay ranges on Payscale and a few other sites and I really do not see that happening. Perhaps I could swing a 30% increase, but (after taxes) the difference in rent alone would consume most of that.