Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow

Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by scarface_74 on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @01:08PM (#42795745)

When I was single until I was 28, I didn’t even want a house. I wanted the flexibility of being able to move. In fact, I hated the maintenances of owning a single family home and as I mentioned in my first reply We downsized to a condo as soon as we could.

If you are single with no responsibilities but yourself in many major cities, you can make it off of $65K. Homeownership is not the only metric of success

People making less than that aren’t homeless and starving.

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Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by zxor on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @05:35PM (#42798243)

> in many major cities, you can make it off of $65K

This is certainly not true in any of the cities near me.

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Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by scarface_74 on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @05:52PM (#42798380)

I bet wherever you live, people making $65K a year aren’t homeless

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Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by zxor on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @06:27PM (#42798630)

In my opinion there is a large gap between "not homeless" and "making it"

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Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by scarface_74 on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @06:39PM (#42798765)

And the original person I replied to was in the top percentile of income according to him and considered “survival” not being able to live his current lifestyle.

What do you consider “making it” for a single person?

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