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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2023) by axvk on Thursday June 01, 2023 @02:57PM (#36155727)
I'm in the center of NYC so I'll answer this question. Currently, it's about $2,800 for a studio and $3,500 for a one bedroom. If you're single I'd say you need around 120k to live somewhat okay. That's 6.6k a month after taxes so minus about 3k it's 3.6k a month for bills, food, and however else you want to budget the rest. Depends on your lifestyle of course.

If you want a three bedroom then you'd want to live outside of NYC and commute about an hour by train. It'll be around 3k-4k then.

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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2023) by charlie0 on Thursday June 01, 2023 @05:14PM (#36157427)
Yeah...what about retirement accounts? If you're not putting money away into retirement, you're either bad at managing money or just scraping by.
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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2023) by 9530jh9054ven on Thursday June 01, 2023 @10:36PM (#36160175)
Not necessarily. My retirement plan is to kill myself in a one of the larger city parks at night. Call 911 first to give them a rough location so that can recover my body but not be able to arrive soon enough to save me.

Little reason to have a retirement account if your retirement is that brief.

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