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€100K is not really setting the bar all that high. It's a shame to see so many replies here that consider it to be impossible. Personally, since living in Eur

€100K is not really setting the bar all that high. It's a shame to see so many replies here that consider it to be impossible. Personally, since living in Europe, I've done it two ways. I worked remotely for an American company for several years, at my butt-in-seat Bay Area rate. And I've bootstrapped my own SaaS product business (letting it grow in the background while working for that US company). Another option would be to find a software company here and actually negotiate a market rate for one's self. It's really expensive to live here, compared to the 'states. I don't see how anybody does it on the $35k/year salaries we see reported for software guys.

aalhour 9y ago
Do you pay wage taxes in the US or Europe? Or in both?
superplussed 9y ago
"Welp, €100K is not setting the bar that high folks. I can prove that by demonstrating two different examples where I didn't pull a salary of €100K from a European company."
- jasonkester 9y ago
  This is an attitude that I see a lot when developers talk about salary, and it is baffling. It's as though you are so determined to win your point that you would prefer to spend an entire lifetime making a less than market rate out of spite, rather than accept that the market pays as well as it does. It only takes one example to prove that something is possible. What you do once you know something is possible is up to you.
  - vanderreeah 9y ago
    I like your blog posts and you're certainly an inspiring example, but really it's odd that you can't see that, given the large number of people not in your position (as evidenced by the replies here and elsewhere in similar threads on HN), logic dictates that "one example" only proves that you are either lucky, talented, clever, or whatever (I'm not trying to analyse the reasons for your success or detract from it). But it's got nothing to do with a determination to win a point: it's just statistics, and they show that your personal experience, while interesting, has zero bearing on or significance for the experience of most people.

aalhour 9y ago

Do you pay wage taxes in the US or Europe? Or in both?

superplussed 9y ago

"Welp, €100K is not setting the bar that high folks. I can prove that by demonstrating two different examples where I didn't pull a salary of €100K from a European company."

jasonkester 9y ago
This is an attitude that I see a lot when developers talk about salary, and it is baffling. It's as though you are so determined to win your point that you would prefer to spend an entire lifetime making a less than market rate out of spite, rather than accept that the market pays as well as it does. It only takes one example to prove that something is possible. What you do once you know something is possible is up to you.
- vanderreeah 9y ago
  I like your blog posts and you're certainly an inspiring example, but really it's odd that you can't see that, given the large number of people not in your position (as evidenced by the replies here and elsewhere in similar threads on HN), logic dictates that "one example" only proves that you are either lucky, talented, clever, or whatever (I'm not trying to analyse the reasons for your success or detract from it). But it's got nothing to do with a determination to win a point: it's just statistics, and they show that your personal experience, while interesting, has zero bearing on or significance for the experience of most people.