Re:Ask HN: What steps can I take to earn $250K+?
by paulddraper on Friday July 13, 2018 @12:40PM
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> Location is high-COL big-metro east coast city
Well, since half the comments here are referring to California, I'll go ahead and make my off-topic location suggestion too.
Live in Austin or Kansas City or Las Vegas or Boulder or Salt Lake City.
I live in Salt Lake and you can easily buy a brand new 4k sq ft house with a < 30 min commute for less than $600k. There are tons of software jobs, it's family friendly, and it's an hour to world-class skiing or three hours to some of the most beautiful national parks.
I'm 28, have three kids and a house and an RV camper, my wife has never worked anything more than fun hobby jobs, we vacation to NY/LA as much as we want, and in general we live rather comfortably.
It's nice to tell yourself you earn $250k. But does 30% more pay make up for a 300% more expensive mortgage?
Well, since half the comments here are referring to California, I'll go ahead and make my off-topic location suggestion too.
Live in Austin or Kansas City or Las Vegas or Boulder or Salt Lake City.
I live in Salt Lake and you can easily buy a brand new 4k sq ft house with a < 30 min commute for less than $600k. There are tons of software jobs, it's family friendly, and it's an hour to world-class skiing or three hours to some of the most beautiful national parks.
I'm 28, have three kids and a house and an RV camper, my wife has never worked anything more than fun hobby jobs, we vacation to NY/LA as much as we want, and in general we live rather comfortably.
It's nice to tell yourself you earn $250k. But does 30% more pay make up for a 300% more expensive mortgage?