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Re:Google Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Bl... by tastygreenapple on Friday August 16, 2019 @01:23PM (#20717337)
> I lost count of the number of times that, say, some engineer 3 years out of college couldn't afford a 5 bedroom house in Palo Alto for them, their partner and their dog and how they were underpaid and this was unfair and a problem

Is it not a problem that someone with one of the best jobs in the world can't afford a decent house near work? It might be related to why the contingent workers have 2.5 hour commutes.

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Re:Google Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Bl... by jciochon on Friday August 16, 2019 @01:33PM (#20717439)
Since when do 2 people and a dog need a 5 bedroom house? And does that really only qualify as “decent”? Especially 3 years out of school...

In any case OP was just trying to point out the entitlement that gets instilled, and how it can be particularly blinding when you’re wrapped up in your own decadent lifestyle. It’s a very common trait among people in the valley, in my experience.

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Re:Google Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Bl... by ummonk on Friday August 16, 2019 @02:16PM (#20717919)
5 bedroom house is an exaggeration. People just want a reasonable (say, 3 bedroom for older folks, 2 bedroom for folks 3 years out of college) house near work, which they can’t afford.

That doesn’t make the fact that ordinary workers have to travel multiple hours each way to afford housing any better. It is just a canary in the coal mine that even very highly paid workers struggle to afford housing in the area.

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Re:Google Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Bl... by magduf on Friday August 16, 2019 @01:41PM (#20717535)
No one needs a 5-bedroom house. In most of the rest of the world, that's something that only very wealthy people can afford.

And if you don't like the housing options in the Bay Area, don't move there. It's very simple. The only reason housing is so bad in the Bay Area is because people keep moving there and complaining about it, but still putting up with it.

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Re:Google Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Bl... by xapata on Friday August 16, 2019 @01:26PM (#20717374)
> decent house

He described something more than decent.

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