Ask HN: How do you weigh off life satisfaction against income? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How do you weigh off life satisfaction against income?

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Post by ggm » Sat, Aug 28, 2021, 4:45 AM UTC

snicky wrote: post #10

ggm wrote: post #9

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Aside from its terrible public transport model, it's a reasonably rational, but not grid-based life. (Melbourne's Hoddle grid is great!) House prices are of course insane, but less so than the Southern states. It has good food, a mixture of tin-and-timber, modern, suburban, apartment living, it has great weather. It doesn't have Coogee or Bondi or Manly and it has a lot of urban sprawl, but within 2h drive are rainfo…

How do you like the tech scene in there? I've tried to move to Brisbane around 5 years ago and even had an episode working remotely for a company located in there which wanted to sponsor me, but ultimately the compensation vs COL ratio seemed very bad, even if you compare it to Europe, so I didn't pull the trigger. At that time there were really only a few interesting jobs in web development (I specialize in Ruby on…

Amazon do stuff here. I think Amazon 'fresh' was coded in Brissie. There's quite a lot of software and network engineering, but nothing like Sydney or Melbourne. CSIRO/Data61 are in town, there's film and animation industries, Web mgt and hosting.

I don't know much about the ruby scene here, sorry.

Re: Ask HN: How do you weigh off life satisfaction against income?

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Post by bitxbitxbitcoin » Sat, Aug 28, 2021, 1:19 PM UTC

How far away is MCOL from HCOL? Can you visit every weekend with your enhanced savings and reap both benefits?

Re: Ask HN: How do you weigh off life satisfaction against income?

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Post by sjg007 » Sat, Aug 28, 2021, 2:53 PM UTC

It is friends and family that are most important to life satisfaction and longevity. I think volunteering is associated with happiness as well. So if you stay, go make some friends etc... and if you go sounds like you have friends their already.

Re: Ask HN: How do you weigh off life satisfaction against income?

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Post by mmmmmbop » Sat, Aug 28, 2021, 5:07 PM UTC

bitxbitxbitcoin wrote: post #12

How far away is MCOL from HCOL? Can you visit every weekend with your enhanced savings and reap both benefits?

About 800km. In theory I guess visiting every weekend by plane would be possible, but to me that doesn't sound like a good life.

Re: Ask HN: How do you weigh off life satisfaction against income?

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Post by mikewarot » Sat, Aug 28, 2021, 11:47 PM UTC

Have you really trimmed all the expenses you can out of your current situation?

Other than money, what are the good and bad parts of your current situation? What parts of the city bring you joy, and pleasant surprises from time to time? What really makes you sad or angry?

Money is a tool, the tool shouldn't drive your decisions, it's what you can/can't do with the tools that really matter.

Re: Ask HN: How do you weigh off life satisfaction against income?

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Post by inatreecrown2 » Sun, Aug 29, 2021, 1:40 PM UTC

>> It would be a real shame to move to the MCOL city only to find out that I don't really like living in that city as much as visiting it.

Say you move to MCOL city and find out that you don't really like it. That would be a lesson there.

Re: Ask HN: How do you weigh off life satisfaction against income?

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Post by raydalio0705 » Mon, Aug 30, 2021, 1:16 PM UTC

inatreecrown2 wrote: post #16

>> It would be a real shame to move to the MCOL city only to find out that I don't really like living in that city as much as visiting it. Say you move to MCOL city and find out that you don't really like it. That would be a lesson there.

The problem is that high paying jobs in HCOL cities are highly, highly competitive. There is no guarantee that the OP will be able to come back to high-paying job in HCOL after moving out. In fact, it will be quite difficult, as the move will signify negative things to potential employers.