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>In high cost areas like the Silicon Valley, almost every teacher is married to an engineer or is the child of an engineer. That is why they don't need a second
by spike021 7y ago
>In high cost areas like the Silicon Valley, almost every teacher is married to an engineer or is the child of an engineer. That is why they don't need a second job. Because they have a support network.
Huh? My neighbor at my (fortunately extremely low-cost) apartment is single, a teacher, and he barely gets by, especially in summer (if he wants to have "fun money" during summer it means taking a summer school teaching job). Obviously one person out of a plethora of teachers in the Bay Area, but that's a ridiculously general statement.
- jedberg 7y agoI mean my N is about 150 (the number of teachers I know personally regarding their living situation) and all but a few are married to a high earner or are supported by high earning parents. The rest have either been teaching for 30+ years and got lucky enough to buy a house way back then, and one of them is married to a cop and together they make a decent wage because he has a good union. There's only one that I know that is single and without support, and she lived with me because we rented her a room at 1/2 normal rents until she could afford to buy a condo.