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Re: Life in a Studio Apartment with My Wife and Two Sons

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Post by Tycho » Mon, Nov 09, 2015, 1:59 AM UTC

ars wrote: post #134

davidf18 wrote: post #111

There are Orthodox Jewish families in Israel which have very few rooms for very large families. (Among the ultra-Orthodox in Israel the fertility rate is 10 children per family). Often these families have very little income which includes state support for their large families, and esp in large cities such as Jerusalem can little afford larger accommodations. In SF, NYC (where I live) and other US localities, the iss…

> Among the ultra-Orthodox in Israel the fertility rate is 10 children per family There are not typically 10 children at once in the home BTW. The older children will be away at school, around 14 for boys, 17 for girls. What you do is have 3 bedrooms: parents, boys, and girls. Depending on the boy/girl ratio you can have up to 2 triple-bunk-beds in a room. Doing that you can easily sleep 12 children in the house (if…

This was pretty normal 50 years ago in the UK.

Re: Life in a Studio Apartment with My Wife and Two Sons

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Post by bsder » Mon, Nov 09, 2015, 9:08 AM UTC

kzhahou wrote: post #160

bsder wrote: post #118

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Austin is more hype than substance. And it has gotten really expensive as well. San Diego, for example, stomps all over Austin in terms of software jobs, and Austin's hardware scene is laughable.

What are the SD companies?

Go down to Sorrento Valley. Take a rock, and throw it at a building. Austin doesn't have the defense and biotech sectors that San Diego has.

Big ones: BAE, Northrop Grumman, and General Dynamics. (Previously I would have listed Qualcomm ...)

A zillion biotech startups: I drive past at least a dozen near here every day: https://www.google.com/maps/@32.9104712,-117.2304182,18.57z

Rockstar San Diego seems to be hiring as far as I can tell.

In addition, a lot of manufacturing companies up in the San Marcos/Vista area all need automation programmers.

If you're not finding SD companies with software jobs, I'm very surprised.

Re: Life in a Studio Apartment with My Wife and Two Sons

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Post by cdibona » Mon, Nov 09, 2015, 4:07 PM UTC

sokoloff wrote: post #180

PhantomGremlin wrote: post #156

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There are only two words you need to know about handling disposable diapers. I'm surprised nobody has mentioned it here yet. It's "better than sliced bread": Diaper Genie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaper_Genie

If you take only one thing away from this thread, this should be it. It's phenomenal and worth every penny, IMO. Incidentally, this is the first time since the change that I miss having the upvote score on an item.

The diaper genie is just okay. The plastic can retain smells after a while. During the diaper years my wife and I would simply take the trash out to the can twice a day or toss the soiled ones immediately to get then out of the house.

Re: Life in a Studio Apartment with My Wife and Two Sons

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Post by daveloyall » Mon, Nov 09, 2015, 6:31 PM UTC

The author describes a strategy: maximize the density of storage space and minimize the density of living space.

I had discovered that excellent wisdom independently when setting up my various college dorm rooms.

He later says that he is "forever changed" by the experience. I hope so. Myself, I had forgotten, and I thank him for the reminder.

Re: Life in a Studio Apartment with My Wife and Two Sons

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Post by scott_karana » Mon, Nov 09, 2015, 7:14 PM UTC

stevoski wrote: post #7

The more I read such articles, the more I think you'd have to be nuts to choose to live in San Francisco. And yet, clearly, plenty of people do choose to live in San Francisco.

The author is pretty clear.

> And don’t forget about the importance of compound interest. I will remind you that $2k per month saved on rent for one year is $24k. Invested for 50 years averaging 6% interest comes to roughly $450k. Freedom. HTFU.

$450K towards retirement for one year of living in cramped, expensive SF sounds like it could be a reasonable payoff for many people.

Re: Life in a Studio Apartment with My Wife and Two Sons

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Post by ryguytilidie » Thu, Nov 12, 2015, 5:08 AM UTC

pmiller2 wrote: post #146

ryguytilidie wrote: post #123

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Huh? I literally live at the end of the line and my commute is 30 minutes...

You're not at the end of the line in the East Bay, then. The BART ride alone would be at least 40 minutes, and that's if there wasn't some kind of delay.

Del Norte (I guess its 2nd to last) to Embarcadero is 31 minutes.

Re: Life in a Studio Apartment with My Wife and Two Sons

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Post by 01Michael10 » Fri, Nov 20, 2015, 7:06 PM UTC

guard-of-terra wrote: post #149

ars wrote: post #128

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Oh definitely. Especially for rentals. To be a bedroom it has to have a window, a certain size (which varies), and some places even require a closet in the room. If they find a bed in a room like that they normally start with a warning, then a visit from child protection services, or even condemning the entire house. Obviously if they don't inspect they'll never know, but rentals, and people with contact with authori…

I always wonder why child "protection" services feel the need to harrass middle class families running a little low, when they could go to ghetto and have an unlimited supply of totally ruined families to have fun with. Multi-generation alchohol and drug abuse and all that stuff available in numbers. Stop harrassing us until you solved them. Bye.

What nonsense did I just read? Child protection services are mostly operating in the "ghetto". They go where the complaints are...

Are you really saying people with some money should be able to bend the law but not poor people?