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Funny to hear this sentiment in a tech forum. If you do well in a programming career you can afford a house almost anywhere. I don't think you need to work more
by epups 4y ago
Funny to hear this sentiment in a tech forum. If you do well in a programming career you can afford a house almost anywhere. I don't think you need to work more than 40h a week to achieve that either.
- ablob 4y agoSo the stories of having to live in a trailer in silicon valley because everything else is too expensive are all false?
- epups 4y agoIs that a fair conclusion from my comment? If so, I apologise.
- pjmlp 4y agoNot in southern Europe, unless you want to pay the mortgage for the next 30 years or something. Specially with Air BnB and pensioned foreigns driving the prices sky high.
- criddell 4y agoA 30 year mortgage is pretty typical in the US. How does it work in southern Europe?
- pjmlp 4y agoYeah, now try that living from 1500 euros a month, typical salary in many IT shops.
- lupire 4y agoI'd have to know what a mortgage costs.
- nerdawson 4y agoThat’s minimum wage in most countries. Tech salaries are lower in Europe than the US but that has to be exaggeration. Either that or you’re looking in the wrong places.
- pjmlp 4y agoMinimum wage is about 800 euros in Portugal, after taxes. I think to still know enough about my home country.
- bigDinosaur 4y agoI know Portuguese IT workers earning vastly more than that remotely, and I've been honestly quite impressed with Portuguese developers, so Portugal is a bit of an odd case. I suspect for the IT market the salaries paid in Portugal don't match up to the salaries actually being paid to many IT workers.
- goodpoint 4y agoNot everybody lives in US.
- cpsns 4y agoI'm doing well in my programming career and a house in the majority of Canada is completely unattainable unless one partners up, or moves somewhere absolutely dreadful, which is the option I took and now regret. Maybe this is true in America, but many of us don't live there despite a desire to do so.