Twitter pays engineer $10 million as Silicon Valley tussles for talent

Re:Twitter pays engineer $10 million as Silicon Valley tussl... by yeukhon on Monday October 14, 2013 @05:51AM (#6546288)

Valley living is very expensive. I remember meeting someone from Portland and he said with 80k he could still afford to buy a house but he wouldn't be able to do that if he were going to stay in the Valley.

I was an intern this summer and was looking around the price for an apartment (I want to return to MV at some point after college). It's at least 2k at that time. Most of them were gone and only 3000k, 4000k left. I was looking for just a single bedroom. That was hella expensive.

I used to complain about chinese dinner at Castro street cost $9. I am now back to NY and I can feed myself around $5 (well for $9 in MV I get roughly double size, so more food to eat). But then again, do I really need that much a night?

It's expensive.

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Re:Twitter pays engineer $10 million as Silicon Valley tussl... by mjolk on Monday October 14, 2013 @06:26AM (#6546389)

> I am now back to NY and I can feed myself around $5

$5 means eating street meat -- which is fine, but not sure that I'd recommend doing it every day. Unless, of course, you're comparing eating out in the Castro versus buying ingredients at C-Town or Key Foods in NYC?

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Re:Twitter pays engineer $10 million as Silicon Valley tussl... by yeukhon on Monday October 14, 2013 @06:43AM (#6546445)

$5 street food, $5 restaurant order. But when I paid $9 on Castro, I was getting nearly a double serve. I would eat half and save the other half.

That was how I lived back in MV. I would make my own food but I didn't have time.

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