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The Fool posted:baited breath, you eatin worms brother?
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4lokos basilisk posted:my impression is that a faang salary should have let a family with kids save enough even when living in a high col area, not considering severance i've seen claims that, between the cost of housing, childcare, and other general monthly expenses, the total cost of living in the bay area while raising a child can easily push $20k a month that's… a lot
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Mar 21, 2023 19:57
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pre-5 daycare in the core of silicon valley can easily exceed 5 grand a month. my friends who had twins just had one parent not work until they were in school
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Mar 21, 2023 20:10
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I would simply buy a child aged 5 and avoid the problem entirely.
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Mar 21, 2023 20:12
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several of the school districts in the fancy silicon valley suburbs (like mountain view) have been closing and consolidating campuses because their enrollments have plummeted on account of most people trying to raise a family have to move out to the hinterlands in order to afford it
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Mar 21, 2023 20:13
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colma has a lot of residents that pay $0 for housing, maybe learn their one weird trick idk
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The_Franz posted:i've seen claims that, between the cost of housing, childcare, and other general monthly expenses, the total cost of living in the bay area while raising a child can easily push $20k a month Tarquin couldn't possibly do without his polo lessons
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Mar 21, 2023 20:17
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Jonny 290 posted:colma has a lot of residents that pay $0 for housing, maybe learn their one weird trick idk theres rental grave spaces in that graveyard iirc that was a mindfuck lol
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The Fool posted:we should at least show some solidarity with fellow posters affected by bubel pop.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:I would simply buy a child aged 5 and avoid the problem entirely. 
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bob dobbs is dead posted:theres rental grave spaces in that graveyard iirc i was about to make that joke lol but nope its just real
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Mar 21, 2023 20:19
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qirex posted:pre-5 daycare in the core of silicon valley can easily exceed 5 grand a month. my friends who had twins just had one parent not work until they were in school yeah its preschool (and rent ofc) thats the killer here. Small kids are super fuckin expensive.
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Mar 21, 2023 20:19
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4lokos basilisk posted:my impression is that a faang salary should have let a family with kids save enough even when living in a high col area Not really
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Mar 21, 2023 20:20
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i have been stashing away a deece amount of money but its mostly because my wife is also paid really well and we bought a house 20 years ago. if it was just me supporting the family we'd be ok but with very little cushion.
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Mar 21, 2023 20:22
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the pay discrepancy from the coasts to the interior is a big source of friction that in my hot take causes a lot of barriers to solidarity. going from 65k in KY to six figgies in a few years from when i moved was a mind gently caress the 650/m to 2k a month rent was another. it's a really hard discrepency to comprehend both ways.
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Mar 21, 2023 20:24
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i was severely underpaid in a major area and now i'm just underpaid and also specifically facebook-the-website workers can get stuffed, other meta related employees have my support mostly
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vestment plan jadynn needs daycare! etc.
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cheese eats mouse posted:the pay discrepancy from the coasts to the interior is a big source of friction that in my hot take causes a lot of barriers to solidarity. going from 65k in KY to six figgies in a few years from when i moved was a mind gently caress in the past year my tally for friends and ppl I know fleeing the west coast for more affordable places is at 10, myself included. I don’t understand how poor people are supposed to live in some of these cities, it’s way too easy to end up homeless or displaced, and the housing quality and negligence is next level bad. I’m kind of grateful that the place we were living sold over Christmas, even if it pushed us out of the city, as our quality of life in the hinterlands is much better
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Mar 21, 2023 22:04
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the advantage the west coast has is not the very portable computertouchers, its the extremely nonportable unis and vcs. and i knew a couple of vcs who moved to like miami, ate a 97% decrease in deal flow, and had to move back
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bob dobbs is dead posted:and i knew a couple of vcs who moved to like miami, ate a 97% decrease in deal flow, and had to move back lol
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OldAlias posted:in the past year my tally for friends and ppl I know fleeing the west coast for more affordable places is at 10, myself included. I don’t understand how poor people are supposed to live in some of these cities, it’s way too easy to end up homeless or displaced, and the housing quality and negligence is next level bad. I’m kind of grateful that the place we were living sold over Christmas, even if it pushed us out of the city, as our quality of life in the hinterlands is much better there's a reason why things like public housing for teachers is popping up, otherwise the pool of applicants who can afford to live there is limited to those who live with their parents, have a tech/finance spouse, or inherited a house and/or money
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Mar 21, 2023 22:21
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theres part of me that daydreams about moving back to rural indiana and living on like a cheap 10 acres with river access and cosplaying as wendell berry. its probably a good thing that im married to a woman who would never do that in a million years.
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Mar 21, 2023 22:22
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bob dobbs is dead posted:the advantage the west coast has is not the very portable computertouchers, its the extremely nonportable unis and vcs. and i knew a couple of vcs who moved to like miami, ate a 97% decrease in deal flow, and had to move back but the citadel capital guy said that florida is so much more ~business friendly~
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Mar 21, 2023 22:23
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bob dobbs is dead posted:the advantage the west coast has is not the very portable computertouchers, its the extremely nonportable unis and vcs. and i knew a couple of vcs who moved to like miami, ate a 97% decrease in deal flow, and had to move back bublé
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Mar 21, 2023 22:24
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The_Franz posted:but the citadel capital guy said that florida is so much more ~business friendly~ that dipshit was recently seen saying Illinois' flat tax is regressive and needs to change after he spent dozens of millions preventing us from changing the flat tax system a few years ago. he's a fuckin moron but at least he pretty much killed the gop here when he left
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Mar 21, 2023 22:25
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i mean, that guy doesnt need to take face to face meetings, you can actually do his kinda hedging on the computer the vcs had a short lacuna during the pandemic proper but its basically over
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Mar 21, 2023 22:29
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ok i stand corrected i guess. so my impression was that the only reason someone would put up with sf bay area cost of living and commutes is that you would be making deece enough figgies to basically keep 1/3 or more of your take home as pure savings. and leading from that assumption i also thought that a median computertoucher would be fine coasting on their savings for 1 year or more if there is also severance on top of that.
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4lokos basilisk posted:ok i stand corrected i guess. probably can, if you don’t have kids. im lucky my brother had 2 so my parents don’t bother me about it because I don’t think they’d like my response that I would like to have kids but ruled it out years ago because the us is grinding parents into a fine dust
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Mar 21, 2023 22:39
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bob dobbs is dead posted:you can actually do his kinda edging on the computer
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4lokos basilisk posted:ok i stand corrected i guess. depends on a lot of things but esp for people just starting out or young families with small children, they're probably MORE vulnerable than someone in the flyovers. the big deal about the bay area is (was?) that the job market was so much larger and your resume could look so much better. Like if i quit my job in a snit or the startup failed or whatever I could easily have a full week of interviews lined up in a couple days, and its easy to have a bunch of well-known tech companies on your resume. Things are a little less certain now, i honestly dont know which way its gonna flop.
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i have no children no spouse one cat a tech salary and the ability to get more cats i am set
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yeah, i cracked open my "skippin this recession lol" fund
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Mar 21, 2023 22:50
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Enderzero posted:probably can, if you don’t have kids. can confirm, i have no kids in the bay area and frankly can’t spend my money fast enough. i’ve got enough in savings to last me a good five years if need be, and i’m pretty terrible with money overall.
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why are birth rates declining 
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birth rates are declining because being single is loving awesome you get to do literally whatever you want without disappointing or failing anybody and now we don’t have as many insane boomers breathing down our necks demanding grandchildren
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speaking of four legged friends i adopted another rescue cat today, from a rescue / hoarding situation she's decompressing in the other room, and is supposed to until next week. i can tell she'll be a good friend though, and she already lets me pick her up. just deeply unsure after surviving such a chaotic living environment. now it's good tunes + scritches + being doted on
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Pollyanna posted:birth rates are declining because being single is loving awesome you get to do literally whatever you want without disappointing or failing anybody and now we don’t have as many insane boomers breathing down our necks demanding grandchildren now you just have me demanding cats
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Broken Machine posted:speaking of four legged friends i adopted another rescue cat today, from a rescue / hoarding situation image not loading.
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Shifty Pony posted:image not loading. yeah im seeing the same issue please check your image host
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