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Re:Dear founders: Children are not a distraction, they are m... by stefan_kendall3 on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @06:26PM (#7425488)
It's not an achievable goal in San Francisco, but not everyone lives in San Francisco.
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Re:Dear founders: Children are not a distraction, they are m... by geebee on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @06:59PM (#7425652)
It's semi-achievable in San Francisco. It takes two incomes, and you have to make sacrifices.

In SF, applications developers, dental hygienists, and registered nurses all earn, on average, around 100k a year. Two of them together would together earn about $220k a year in SF. That's workable.

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Re:Dear founders: Children are not a distraction, they are m... by aspensmonster on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @07:21PM (#7425771)
>...about $220k a year in SF. That's workable.

That's depressing. Sure, it might be workable too. But depressing. That's a little over a million dollars in FIVE YEARS. Ok ok, one or two more for final take-home pay.

And that's still merely "workable" rather than "Oh boy we've got it made!"

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Re:Dear founders: Children are not a distraction, they are m... by stefan_kendall3 on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @08:24PM (#7426062)
If the goal is "Buy and own a house", pulling in $220/year pre-tax probably isn't enough to get the job done. Unless you're living extremely scarcely in the meantime.
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