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I'd add that for jobs in startups (a focus for the HN crowd) salaries are particularly low.
by beaumartinez 13y ago
I'd add that for jobs in startups (a focus for the HN crowd) salaries are particularly low.
- _progger_ 13y agoIndeed. It's a shame to see that they manage to hire some young talented people. I'd rather go to Google. Better experience regardless of future path.
- yashodhan 13y agoWhy is this the case? I'm a frontend dev for a startup in London and I make 18k annually (80% of that because I only work 4 days a week). It's peanuts, but luckily I don't mind being poor.
- ValentineC 13y agoDo you mind sharing whereabouts in London you're staying? (Zone x, or slightly outside London...?) I was there for some years, and my rent was always around 8k a year. I find trying to live in an expensive city while on a low salary admirable.
- Anderkent 13y agoI guess it depends on your requirements. If you're young and without dependants it's much cheaper. I live in a flatshare, 40 minute door-to-door commute (via overground, luckily, not the tube) and the rent is about 4k a year.
- petercooper 13y agoIn London, it's incredibly popular to live in roommate situations and have just a single room in a house with shared kitchen/bathroom for this reason. I know a lot of people still live with their parents into their late 20s and pay little or no rent, too.
- gaius 13y agoIt's common but it doesn't follow that it's popular.
- yashodhan 13y agoCurrently way out in the boondocks (zone 8). I'm looking to move into Zone 2/3 East London (Shoreditch/Bethnal Green area) to be closer to work. There are quite a few flat shares available for £500-600 pcm, which is my budget. That leaves me with £400/month to live off, which is good enough I suppose.
- jamesdeer 13y agoI'm a start-up founder, and live in Bethnal Green. It's a lovely place to live (in London). Our office is just off of Brick Lane, and it's a short 15 minutes to work every morning :)
- _progger_ 13y agoNo offence, but Bethnal Green looks like an ethnic ghetto. Is it getting better further to the south?
- jblok 13y agoBethnal Green isn't exactly a lovely place to live. It's saving grace is it's proximity to central London/Shoreditch, but there's nothing stand-out about it at all. It seems like no one respects it - every day I walk home from the station past at least 1 drunk/crackhead and rubbish all over the street.
- mseebach 13y agoIt's good that you don't mind being poor, 'cause that's what you're gonna be. I hope that start-up is worth it.
- rmc 13y agoDamn, ask for a raise.