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Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by nkrisc »

> To celebrate our company’s launch, we’re passing along our fees back to you in the form of a $10,000 check. To collect the $10,000, you’ll need to become a MainStreet Member and work out of one of our MainStreet offices for at least 12 months.

But what is a "MainStreet Member" and how does one become one? What/where are "MainStreet offices"? So is it remote or not? You're working remotely for a customer out of one of their offices? Is one an employee of MainStreet and contracting with their customers? What happens when I give them my email address? Their site raises more questions than it answers.

Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by shhshahassa »

mdszy wrote: post #54
tempsy wrote: post #40

It's really hard to beat living and working in San Francisco. Having lived here a few years I find costs highly overstated for single people . e.g. some costs: Studio in Lower Haight (water + trash included): $2100/month Utilities: $50 Monthly Muni: $81 Groceries are no more expensive than anywhere else. Eating out is similar vs other cities I've been to, and if anything the quality of the food is better here at the…

I live in a medium sized city in Wisconsin (~100k population) and my costs are: - $850 for rent for a 2 bedroom 1200sqft apartment - ~$70 for utilities (i have free heat so it's less in the winter and more in the summer) and if i still had the car i previously had, my only expense would be gas (~$100/mo) and the minor maintenance it needed, which was less than $1000/yr (i tracked everything each year i had it). I bou…

Yes, but you live in Wisconsin haha

Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by clarry »

tempsy wrote: post #40

It's really hard to beat living and working in San Francisco. Having lived here a few years I find costs highly overstated for single people . e.g. some costs: Studio in Lower Haight (water + trash included): $2100/month Utilities: $50 Monthly Muni: $81 Groceries are no more expensive than anywhere else. Eating out is similar vs other cities I've been to, and if anything the quality of the food is better here at the…

I don't understand the logic by which people say that in smaller towns, you need a car. For me the exact opposite has been true: the larger the city, the more likely I am to need a car. In small cities everything is in walking distance, that's what small means. Big means things are far. Also, based on all the complaining about public traffic and congestion and whatnot, the larger the city, the more likely you are to be stuck in traffic..

As for the cost of owning and maintaining a car, I recently calculated that mine is about 300 eur/month, assuming I keep it for 5 years and sell or scrap it for 1000 eur. I'm likely to keep it longer (and/or sell for more), however, and that will bring the cost down.

By contrast, I'm paying 1045 eur/month for a 3BR apartment with sauna :-).

Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by realbarack »

mdszy wrote: post #54
tempsy wrote: post #40

It's really hard to beat living and working in San Francisco. Having lived here a few years I find costs highly overstated for single people . e.g. some costs: Studio in Lower Haight (water + trash included): $2100/month Utilities: $50 Monthly Muni: $81 Groceries are no more expensive than anywhere else. Eating out is similar vs other cities I've been to, and if anything the quality of the food is better here at the…

I live in a medium sized city in Wisconsin (~100k population) and my costs are: - $850 for rent for a 2 bedroom 1200sqft apartment - ~$70 for utilities (i have free heat so it's less in the winter and more in the summer) and if i still had the car i previously had, my only expense would be gas (~$100/mo) and the minor maintenance it needed, which was less than $1000/yr (i tracked everything each year i had it). I bou…

Paying an extra $1.5k per month on rent isn't insane when it gets you $50 or $100k additional annual salary.

Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by helen___keller »

dublinben wrote: post #56
helen___keller wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

sprawling suburbs that necessitate driving everywhere are terrible for the climate Houses themselves aren't great for the climate (there's CO2 emission in materials productions, heavy machinery operation, etc), but they're necessary for human survival so it's hard to claim we have an alternative

>it's hard to claim we have an alternative The alternative is apartments, which use roughly half as much energy as single-family houses. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=11731

Oh sure, I was counting that as "house" but you're correct that denser housing is absolutely more environmentally friendly

Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by yegle »

nkrisc wrote: post #61

> To celebrate our company’s launch, we’re passing along our fees back to you in the form of a $10,000 check. To collect the $10,000, you’ll need to become a MainStreet Member and work out of one of our MainStreet offices for at least 12 months. But what is a "MainStreet Member" and how does one become one? What/where are "MainStreet offices"? So is it remote or not? You're working remotely for a customer out of one…

So this requires 12 months commitment... Isn't this $10k a form of sign up bonus that's widely available from many Bay area companies?

Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by cheese4242 »

tempsy wrote: post #40

It's really hard to beat living and working in San Francisco. Having lived here a few years I find costs highly overstated for single people . e.g. some costs: Studio in Lower Haight (water + trash included): $2100/month Utilities: $50 Monthly Muni: $81 Groceries are no more expensive than anywhere else. Eating out is similar vs other cities I've been to, and if anything the quality of the food is better here at the…

Roughly how big a studio would that get you?

Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by ace32229 »

rogy wrote: post #46
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Is standing in life for brunch really the 3rd biggest problem with living in the Bay Area It's not a problem. More another manufactured nuisance of the kind San Francisco seems to enjoy creating. New Yorkers have brunch later, brunch boozier and--broadly speaking--brunch with a reservation. San Franciscans (or at least my friends in San Francisco) eat brunch at the crack of dawn at establishments that prefer lines…

File London under this too, the majority of 'upper mid range' or 'cool' places to eat now are, turn up, sign up to waiting list, come back in 30mins-2hr

at least they text you when your table is ready!

Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by ramraj07 »

chasd00 wrote: post #51
beauzero wrote: post #41

Atlanta for $ to cost of living/quality. Rural Alabama like Sylacauga (metro/eletric company fiber to your home) for "work from home". Both my wife and I work from home in rural Georgia (Carrollton)...$300k bought us 25 acres, a refurbished 2500 square feet farm house, 6 stall horse barn, 1/2 acre pond, and shop with concrete floor and electricity. There are options out there, lots of them.

wow that almost exactly describes where i'm headed to next but outside of Dallas. My plan is to lease the stables since I have no livestock and don't desire any. Most of my family are West Texas ranchers and oil hands, i'm the lone computer nerd. I have no desire to work as hard as the ranchers in my family do.

How far out of Dallas do you need to get 25 acres for 300k?

Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by nkrisc »

yegle wrote: post #66
nkrisc wrote: post #61

> To celebrate our company’s launch, we’re passing along our fees back to you in the form of a $10,000 check. To collect the $10,000, you’ll need to become a MainStreet Member and work out of one of our MainStreet offices for at least 12 months. But what is a "MainStreet Member" and how does one become one? What/where are "MainStreet offices"? So is it remote or not? You're working remotely for a customer out of one…

So this requires 12 months commitment... Isn't this $10k a form of sign up bonus that's widely available from many Bay area companies?

On the surface, seems so. But then there's the other strange requirements they don't really explain.
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