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HN as also full of smug SFers and SVers who love to brag (masking it as a half-hearthed complaint) how much the pay for housing, implying that they can afford i
by Kurtz79 7y ago
HN as also full of smug SFers and SVers who love to brag (masking it as a half-hearthed complaint) how much the pay for housing, implying that they can afford it.
Usually, neither type is able to provide meaningful discussion about the topic at hand.
Not being from US, but often traveling there, I have always wondered how mimimum-wage workers are able to afford living even remotely close to Manhattan or SF.
The answer seems to be that they increasingly can't.
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoSmugness on both sides. The only thing that we can really trust is data and math. Minimum wage workers in these communities are usually immigrants who double up on very family style living accommodations. It’s still better for them in SF than it was in say Manila.
- dfxm12 7y agoI have always wondered how mimimum-wage workers are able to afford living even remotely close to Manhattan or SF. They split the cost with someone. Either with roommates or a wealthy parent who lives somewhere else.
- manishsharan 7y agoManhattan is just one of the five boroughs of New York and it is very well connected to also New jersey and upstate NY and Long Island. SF on the other hand ..
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoThey live in outlying towns with bus service to Manhattan. You see them waiting at bus stops on Saturday mornings waiting to come in to work when everybody else has the day off.
- askafriend 7y agoWhy do you take it as bragging? People on HN can afford it because they get paid a lot. It’s pretty simple.
- antisthenes 7y agoBecause when you flaunt that you can afford something objectively expensive, it's called bragging. It fits the definition of the word, so it's taken as such. Not sure what's confusing you.
- askafriend 7y agoAre people flaunting, or are they participating in a discussion about affordability of housing while you interpret them as flaunting? I only ask this because I've rarely seen people here outright flaunt/brag in the original sense of those words. There's a difference between: "Doesn't matter to me, I can afford it lol, sucks for people who can't." and "I pay X for housing and get paid Y in salary and that's why living here makes sense for me."
- goobynight 7y agoI've never seen the latter even once.
- goobynight 7y agoIt's a classic thing people interject when it isn't relevant. You nearly cannot discuss housing costs in Florida or Indiana on the internet without someone from SF feeling the urgent need to say "lol that would get me a cardboard box where I live". Why they feel the need? I don't know.
- askafriend 7y agoI think a large part of it is just venting. Not necessarily bragging.