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Re:In Bay Area, six-figure salaries are “low income” by mrweasel on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @01:13PM (#14195758)
While you partly right, you do need to pay for at least daycare, and retirement. It varies, but around 15% of your salary should go towards retirement and even if you employer pays part of you retirement that normally include in the statistic for house hold income.

The four zip code, with the higher average income also have an average price per square meter of 7000USD, so that's of cause a little less than in the Bay Area, assume the 8000USD per square meters I saw a while back is correct.

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Re:In Bay Area, six-figure salaries are “low income” by sampo on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @01:42PM (#14196109)
> you do need to pay for at least daycare

I guess in the richer areas in US, $1000 per child is not an unusual monthly fee for daycare. Whereas in Finland, the monthly fee tops at 290€ per child, and I would guess Denmark is more or less similar to Finland.

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