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Re:Bay Area hammered by loss of jobs: Lack of affordable hou... by baddox on Monday October 23, 2017 @02:42PM (#15535762)
Nearly all software engineers in San Francisco will be able to afford $2k a month, even if it's tight. They'll be doing close to that anyway in rent. I'm not arguing it's not insane rent/mortgage in absolute terms, but relative to software engineer salaries, it's doable.
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Re:Bay Area hammered by loss of jobs: Lack of affordable hou... by StreamBright on Monday October 23, 2017 @04:23PM (#15536645)
They all do have 100K up front? Most software engineers I know have this much in student debt.
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Re:Bay Area hammered by loss of jobs: Lack of affordable hou... by baddox on Monday October 23, 2017 @04:32PM (#15536724)
Of course most would need to save for at least several years, but I think that’s the case for most people.
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