Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area?

Re:Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area? by morgante on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @10:31PM (#13182158)

> Housing and food are still the highest spending categories.

They can be your highest spending categories and still leave plenty of room left over to save.

As a young person living in NYC (high taxes, high housing, high food costs) I can still save a huge percentage of my income due to the high salaries.

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Re:Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area? by mrkurt on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @11:31PM (#13182427)

NYC is much more reasonable than the SF Bay. Manhatten itself is incredibly expensive, but it's fairly easy to live frugally in the NYC area. There's basically nowhere to go "in the bay area" to save much money.

You're not wrong about NYC, but the bay area is really broken.

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Re:Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area? by morgante on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @11:35PM (#13182440)

In my case, I was renting in Manhattan. When I've considered moving to SF I found plenty of comparable apartments for around $2.5k/m.

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