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Some people are incapable of acknowledging they are struggling and making adjustments. A common antipattern among people I've met over the years is moving to <s
by mkl95 5y ago
Some people are incapable of acknowledging they are struggling and making adjustments. A common antipattern among people I've met over the years is moving to <some city where rent is expensive and salaries are high> for a while and literally saving no money. Some of them even end up being poorer than before.
- phendrenad2 5y agoThat's me. I find it hard to internalize the reality that I need to live like a poor college student just to make ends meet in silicon valley, as a software engineer.
- matheusmoreira 5y ago> need to live like a poor college student just to make ends meet in silicon valley How common is this? I'm not american and I'm having trouble visualizing how a job that pays $100k+/year on average can lead to a poor college student quality of life.
- gonehome 5y agoIt’s exaggerated, but I did live with housemates in Palo Alto for my entire twenties because of housing costs. You’re hardly a poor college student, but you don’t have the same standard of living as friends in the Midwest that have their own house. You can live alone on the salary, but most of your money then gets eaten up by living in a worse apartment than if you lived with housemates. You’re better off living with housemates and saving - either for a downpayment on a shitty Bay Area house or to move back somewhere cheaper.
- tsol 5y agoLA/SV are just insanely expensive. Living costs alone eat up a lot of pay so even with high wage you end up living a more average life than if you were somewhere else with the same wage
- oh_sigh 5y agoToo good to rent in East Palo Alto?