This Is Your Life in Silicon Valley

Post by elmar » Wed, Aug 17, 2016, 6:05 PM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #147

in_cahoots wrote: post #134

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To use your numbers, a person would have to make less than $11,000 a year for that salary to be half their income. I doubt there are many people reading this discussion in that income bracket. There are many things in life that aren't feasible if you are at the poverty line: Apple laptops, electric vehicles, extended vacations, etc. I would argue that the only difference here is that many people are deeply uncomforta…

I am living abroad, and I will let countrymen/women correct me, but in Portugal you can hardly aspire to earn more than 1500 euros before taxes, in the best companies. Most of them pay less than that. So a university degree will land you around 1000 euros, a bit more if you are doing lots of overtime. Renting a flat will always be above 300 euros, or 500 in the biggest cities. So unless one if living with a significa…

you are correct.

Post by pyrrhotech » Tue, Aug 23, 2016, 12:19 AM UTC

nattofriends wrote: post #179

pyrrhotech wrote: post #8

Reading this was an interesting anthropological experience to me as the lifestyle is so different from my own though it seems the underlying long-term goals are similar to mine (wealth, meaning, having smart and interesting friends and acquaintances). I too live in SV, but in a modest home I own in the East Bay. I too commute a little less than an hour to work, but I do my own grocery shopping and I don't care for ni…

You do not live in SV. You live in the East Bay.

I spend most of my waking hours in Palo Alto. Unless of course you don't consider time at work "living", in which case I hope your plan is to retire ASAP so you can finally have a life.

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