> Ostensibly, communities like Menlo Park and Palo Alto are elite enclaves, where power couples can easily make $300,000 to $700,000 a year as mid-level dot.com

> Ostensibly, communities like Menlo Park and Palo Alto are elite enclaves, where power couples can easily make $300,000 to $700,000 a year as mid-level dot.com managers. 1. What is a "mid-level dot.com [manager]"? 2. $300,000 to $700,000 is a very wide range and excluding windfalls from liquidity events, I don't think you're going to find a a lot of couples consisting of a husband and wife who both work in technical or non-technical mid-level roles "easily" pulling in half a million plus per year in salary in Silicon Valley. Nice myth though. 3. Unless that $300,000 to $700,000 is coming from interest, you need to earn a lot more than this amount to make it into the "power couples" category in Menlo Park or Palo Alto.