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Re:In Bay Area, six-figure salaries are “low income” by _ao789 on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @12:39PM (#14195273)
After living in 'cramped old london' for over a decade (still), I can only dream of the luxury of 800 Sq.m. Where do I sign up? :) fitting multiple people/families into anything less is just bad living standards as far as I'm concerned. You work hard all day long to go back to such a depressing existence. Time to start living fellow HN'ers!
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Re:In Bay Area, six-figure salaries are “low income” by CalRobert on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @02:53PM (#14196821)
Eh, grass is greener. Some of us worked hard to live in lively, crowded European cities. The suburbs have their downsides. For me, it was crushing loneliness.
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Re:In Bay Area, six-figure salaries are “low income” by scholia on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @03:13PM (#14197031)
You live in the centre when you're young and single and changing jobs. You move to the suburbs when you have married, settled down and want kids, a garden, good local schools etc.

When the kids have moved out, you can downsize to that retirement place in Spain... except that may not work as well after the UK leaves the EU.

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Re:In Bay Area, six-figure salaries are “low income” by CalRobert on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @05:07PM (#14198025)
Well, I don't live in the UK, so there's that. I am expecting a child within a few months and hope to stay in the city; we'll see how it pans out.
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Re:In Bay Area, six-figure salaries are “low income” by scholia on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @01:40PM (#14196083)
Which is why Londoners move to suburbia...
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Re:In Bay Area, six-figure salaries are “low income” by _ao789 on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @01:48PM (#14196169)
..and always dream of places like Spain (or better yet "Texas")
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Re:In Bay Area, six-figure salaries are “low income” by leonroy on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @07:18PM (#14199105)
Time was Greater London was suburbia.

Does that make Luton, St Albans etc. the 'suburbs' of London?

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Re:In Bay Area, six-figure salaries are “low income” by scholia on Thursday April 27, 2017 @09:59PM (#14216376)
Suburbia started at Aldgate, which is just outside the city walls ;-)

A good rule of thumb is (or was): Does it have black cabs?

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Re:In Bay Area, six-figure salaries are “low income” by user5994461 on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @12:52PM (#14195455)
Or time to charge more and get bigger
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