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Re:New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $13... by zeroxfe on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @10:24AM (#13531270)
Speaking as a New Yorker, $130k is not "barely a living wage", unless you have a really distorted definition of "living."

You do not need to commute 2h for reasonable housing -- I lived in Brooklyn (which, for me, was a very comfortable 25m door-to-door commute), and was very happy there.

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Re:New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $13... by webmaven on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @12:26PM (#13532824)
You're right, I shouldsn't have lumped NYC (in all of it's five borroughs) in with SF.

NYC actually has neighborhoods that are affordable, often only a few blocks away from expensive ones.

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Re:New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $13... by princetontiger on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @10:33AM (#13531370)
$130K is not barely livable.
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Re:New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $13... by webmaven on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @11:34AM (#13532082)
Keep in mind that $130k is also total comp. including bonuses that you are elegible for, but might not actually get, and even if you do, might not be in a form actually worth the face value.
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Re:New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $13... by bzbarsky on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @01:44PM (#13533773)
> including bonuses that you are elegible for, but might not actually get

This does not seem to be true. https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/FactSheet62/whdfs62Q... says:

  Cash bonuses and similar compensation may be counted
  or credited toward the $60,000 only if payment is
  assured.
and it's not clear to me that the proposed updates change anything about that other than the numeric value.
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