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Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by falcolas on Thursday March 23, 2017 @08:53AM (#13939288)
A software engineer in SF is also paying somewhere around 400% more for housing, and 100% more for everything else than a software engineer in Berlin. Quite an important note when comparing salaries.

Higher costs, lower stability, and no safety net... I think that I would prefer that Berlin salary (and I'm a US resident).

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Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by emodendroket on Thursday March 23, 2017 @09:31AM (#13939523)
Most devs do not work in San Francisco and the salaries in cities with more reasonable costs of living are still pretty good.
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