I made 6 figures at my Facebook dream job – but couldn't afford the Bay Area
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Re: I made 6 figures at my Facebook dream job – but couldn't afford the Bay Area
#2The only problem: It’s really hard for a family of four to live in the Bay Area on just one income — even if it’s a great income
In any of the prime real estate markets it's hard to live on one salary. That is not a problem unique to the Bay Area. Furthermore, barely breaking 6 figures is not a generous salary in tech (he even says it was on par with his salary in AZ).
Re: I made 6 figures at my Facebook dream job – but couldn't afford the Bay Area
#3Having the same problem. I have a lot of job offers for the bay area but can't make the jump because it would destroy my family life due to the high cost.
Middle class families are basically priced out of Silicon Valley.
Re: I made 6 figures at my Facebook dream job – but couldn't afford the Bay Area
#4What the title should read is "couldn't afford a lifestyle I felt was befitting someone making six figures in the bay area"
Re: I made 6 figures at my Facebook dream job – but couldn't afford the Bay Area
#5Barely breaking 6 figures is an entry level engineers salary in the bay area. Also in the world that I live in single income families are the exception rather than the rule.
Re: I made 6 figures at my Facebook dream job – but couldn't afford the Bay Area
#6What the title should read is "couldn't afford a lifestyle I felt was befitting someone making six figures in the bay area"
"a niceish $40,000 car,"
ish.
High on the list of signs that you've bought far too much into lifestyle inflation is thinking that a car costing 70% of the US median household income is only "nice-ish."
Re: I made 6 figures at my Facebook dream job – but couldn't afford the Bay Area
#7the price increase of silicon valley homes partly is affected by all the foreign capital seeking stable, safe investment in US, particularly China's in the last few years (due to China's exponential growth in debt creation). we should see substantial slowdown/decline in the coming months (because China's economy has stagnated, and because the capital control for most normal citizens have worked)
Re: I made 6 figures at my Facebook dream job – but couldn't afford the Bay Area
#8Am I the only one who thinks the great big takeaway from this is the guy works for local motors?!? Talk about landing on your feet. I've wanted to work for them for years, but their need for web developers is small and the timing never quite worked out.
Re: I made 6 figures at my Facebook dream job – but couldn't afford the Bay Area
#9I was quite sympathetic until I hit the mini-bio at the bottom:
"Matt Kulka works for Local Motors in Phoenix, Arizona. He loves to drive cars around race tracks, his expensive hobby that he just doesn’t want to kick."
Re: I made 6 figures at my Facebook dream job – but couldn't afford the Bay Area
#10What the title should read is "couldn't afford a lifestyle I felt was befitting someone making six figures in the bay area"
If you're working a high-end job (one that not many people would qualify for, presumably), making well over $100,000 per year (FAR above the average family income in the US), then why should you settle for a near-poverty lifestyle?