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You can make much more than $125k in the Bay Area. You should try interviewing here just to see what you are offered.
by friedman23 8y ago
You can make much more than $125k in the Bay Area. You should try interviewing here just to see what you are offered.
- jhall1468 8y agoI have and can say that Seattle and the Bay aren't anywhere near 2x, yet COL is considerably lower (particularly rent) and no state income tax. None of the offers I received would have netted me more money, in fact all of them would have been less money overall.
- runamok 8y agoI do actually live here. Hence the mention of the things I like about it. I was just using nice round numbers as an estimate and trying to say cost of living matters but the #1 thing I pay for here vs another American city is rent. Groceries, gas, consumer goods, etc. do not differ enough to be worth factoring into the equation. I think the big ticket is buying a house. THAT feels really out of reach because I can't do the mental gymnastics to pay around $1000 a square foot...