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Re:Our self imposed scarcity of nice places by ChuckNorris89 on Thursday November 04, 2021 @06:42AM (#29105433)
Yeah, that US viewpoint kinda irks me too. Of course Europe is cheap when you earn US tech salaries. Amsterdam is definitely not cheap on your average non-FAANG/IB local Dutch wages.
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Re:Our self imposed scarcity of nice places by nivenkos on Thursday November 04, 2021 @06:51AM (#29105492)
Even FAANG pays shit in Europe. I was paid 75k at Amazon.

Europe is designed for the landed aristocracy, not working people.

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Re:Our self imposed scarcity of nice places by dvdkon on Thursday November 04, 2021 @08:38AM (#29106373)
I recall housing prices being mostly reasonable 15-20 years ago, I don't think our current woes are the result of any "design".
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Re:Our self imposed scarcity of nice places by ChuckNorris89 on Thursday November 04, 2021 @08:51AM (#29106502)
>I recall housing prices being mostly reasonable 15-20 years ago

And bitcoin was a fraction of a dollar just 10 years ago. Unfortunately, we don't have a time machine and the housing prices of today have far outpaced the earning increases that the working class saw in that time.

15-20 years ago, housing was seen mostly as a place you'd buy to live yourself, not an investment vehicle you'd buy to get grand returns from. That's the difference.

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Re:Our self imposed scarcity of nice places by dvdkon on Thursday November 04, 2021 @07:08PM (#29113545)
Our opinions on the cause aside, we had reasonably priced housing before, we can have it again, without fundamentally changing the way our cities are built (that's not to discount any other reasons to do so).
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Re:Our self imposed scarcity of nice places by smikhanov on Thursday November 04, 2021 @07:37AM (#29105790)
For FAANG, levels.fyi shows pretty competitive salaries in European cities where it has presence (Munich, Amsterdam, London, etc) — most are in six figures. Every time I put those figures in expatistan.com, I absolutely don’t get the feeling that FAANG salaries are low in Europe.

Local European IT firms (your local broadband provider, or a supermarket chain) normally pay much less though.

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Re:Our self imposed scarcity of nice places by barrenko on Thursday November 04, 2021 @08:53AM (#29106515)
Europe is a museum.
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