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Paycheck-to-paycheck making $300K in San Francisco

by kchhina on 12/7/21, 5:16 PM with 2 comments

• by jelliclesfarm on 12/7/21, 9:29 PM

  Looking at the numbers, they should be renting. Secondly, children are expensive. Thirdly, it’s cheaper to have kids if there is a stay at home mom. But likely not going happen as that bra is already burnt down to ashes.

  Having said that, the article is trying too hard. Why live in SF? 300k is plenty in the rest of Bay Area.

  + humble brags like this is why everyone hates tech bros and America. It’s just silly. But annoying as fuck.

  In the real world, who talks about how much they spend? No one with any real money will ever talk about how much they spend? What kind of bizarro culture is Bay Area water breeding? It’s tasteless and so rude. Some kind of sponsored ‘creative accounting’ shenanigans to promote some agenda. These are not real people. At times like this, I feel obligated to apologize to the rest of the world on behalf of California. Sometimes it looks like the entire state has been raised by a family of traveling clowns who got lost near the Nevada border and decided to adopt the feral citizenry of CA. Leadership in Sacramento doesn’t help.

• by IronWolve on 12/8/21, 3:44 AM

  300k a year, I'm living in an RV or a van, banking my pay, for as long as I can deal with it. Work provides showers, laundry, etc.

  I know lots of people who own 5-6 bedroom houses, and turn the basement into 2 more, and split the rent, so they can bank their pay. And retired after 10 years.