>“I didn’t become a software engineer to be trying to make ends meet,” said a Twitter employee in his early 40s who earns a base salary of $160,000. It is, he added, a “pretty bad” income for raising a family in the Bay Area.
>“We make over $1m between us, but we can’t afford a house,” said a woman in her 50s who works in digital marketing for a major telecoms corporation, while her partner works as an engineer at a digital media company. “This is part of where the American dream is not working out here.”
>Another tech worker feeling excluded from the real estate market was 41-year-old Michael, who works at a networking firm in Silicon Valley and last year earned $700,000. Sick of his 22-mile commute to work, which can sometimes take up to two and half hours, he explored buying a property nearer work. Although he said his salary means he can afford to live a decent life, he finds the cost of living, combined with the terrible commute, unpalatable.
Should have gone into the oil business I guess lel.
Aiden Collins
>make 30k >only renting a house right now >but I can make ends meet and have leftover for saving and fun stuff liek snowboarding and guns
Owen Cox
>wealthy arab
If only. I make the equalivent of ~$40k
Levi Martinez
if you never been there its not a big area most of the place got filled in and built up during the dotcom y2k bubble
in the last 5 years > over $1 million is average SF home price >most expensive hotels on planet for better than $300 night >craigslist ads to camp in peoples yards for 5-800/month
Caleb Taylor
>California LAST PART OF CALIFORNICATION WHEN
David Martin
>“For all the feminist movement of ‘you can do it all’, the concept of home ownership is really truly out of reach,” she said. “For me that’s disheartening.”
Gavin Campbell
Holy hell isn't working from home a thing in these "digital" companies? So you could live a bit outside and only commute 2 days a week?
Aside from that, I think the only sensible thing to do is quit and find a company in a place where the the living cost to salary ratio is lower. Once Twatter, Jewgle and their likes can't find good people there anymore they might open a site elsewhere.
Parker Butler
This is bad.
Eventually the companies will move to cheaper pastures and bring their people with them. They will flood Texas, georgia, oregon, colorado, Washington, and Arizona with libshits. Upsetting the political balance.
San Francisco could be cheaper to live in if they tore down all those Full House town houses and built mixed income high rises.
Parker Ortiz
Nah. No one telecommuters anymore. Instead the companies offer shuttle buses and and free amenities at work to make you stay and work longer hous. So everyone wants to live as close to work as possible. So they can get all the benefits
Kayden Brown
> isn't working from home a thing in these "digital" companies? Not really, the overwhelming majority of workers can't, it's only a niche selection of the workplace which can, it isn't high ranking, doesn't allow for much advancement, and they wouldn't make as much money as these people. >$160,000. It is, he added, a “pretty bad” income for raising a family in the Bay Area. Don't raise a family there. >“We make over $1m between us, but we can’t afford a house Don't buy a house there. That last guy two, do you not understand how San Francisco and large American cities work? Just do what you can to get by, you're not supposed to own a house or probably even raise a family there, just make money and do what you want.
Ryan Stewart
Why don't they move? The more people move the more the market will have to deal with it.
Instead, it's oversaturated.
Jaxson Davis
That feel when I made $18 grand last year.
>le college professor-student meme.
I'd have shot myself but $18 grand is enough to live very well on beans and rice in Indiana. I even had enough for guns.
Jace Sullivan
San Fran was seen as cool rich people move there to be cool cost of everything goes up ??????? PROFIT!!!
If you want to play at being rich, do computer work for the auto companies in Detroit. Houses are auctioned for a fucking DOLLAR.
Charles Miller
San Franciscan here
This is fake news. There are tons of condos, houses in the city under $700,000
I only pay $1100 a month for a sweet penthouse in downtown San Francisco. I get by just fine on barely $60k a year
Luke Hall
lefty liberals living in the most rent controlled lefty liberal city in the world complaining about the high price of real estate makes my dick hard.
i fucking hate commies and their willful ignorance.
Lucas Gomez
And yeah San Francisco is the most expensive city in America but it's worth it. There's just way more to do here than anywhere else, and women in SF are the hottest and sluttiest in the world, it's an all you can fuck buffet every single night.
If you never lived in SF in your 20's or 30's you really fucking missed out on life and I fucking pity you.
Hudson Rodriguez
live somewhere else nigga, like really. Being a software dev doesn't require physical presence. Work remotely from north Dakota.
Angel Hill
You don't know what you're talking about, any serious, high-paying dev job like those requires you to be on-site to work with other developers for developing anything serious.
Landon Hernandez
>22 mile commute >up to 2.5 hours
Jesus Christ, california was a mistake.
Brayden Parker
Why don't they buy camper vans and pay little to no living costs?
Fucking idiots
Aiden Johnson
Why not move to Oakland? How much cheaper is it compared to SF West Oakland murdabubbz should be doooope with all the side shows going on and dem grapes bruh-goooooooon
Caleb Cruz
>wanting to live in san francisco
what is wrong withthese people
Luis Campbell
>work in the tech field >still congregate into tight clusters
WHAT that's the field of work that should literally be internet based!
Evan Wilson
I visited there once a year ago and while I may agree that its a nice city in terms of architectural aesthetics and somewhat friendly people, I would not live there under the current Californian government. >Way more to do Yeah, if you have money. Everything in that damn city was so expensive.
Wyatt Hughes
I'm on Michigan Ave in Chicago, the girls can be the same. Wealthier people are generally better looking, as long as you're somewhere with money I think that's about everywhere. Besides, Chicago (and many other places) as nowhere near as faggy as the fag capital of the world.
Tyler Thompson
It's the best place in the world to work in tech, although there are a few emerging rivals
Lincoln Brooks
Tech is going to crash soon. All the (((techies))) are going to lose everything.
Gavin Lopez
You don't need to be in a senior position if you live in the Midwest. A junior dev can live like the king of Saudi Arabia there.
Lucas Cooper
If they do it's directly because of venture capitalists, those cunts are the biggest problem in the Bay
Aiden Butler
(((tech)))
forgive me if i don't care about some start up that wants to let me accessorize my coffee
also the best place to die from STDs
Nathaniel Stewart
The worst part is California is fucking massive
The insane prices are from its impossible to develop land into new communities because all the liberals have made most of the land state park
look how completely desolate california is between LA and SF and the uninhabited wilderness above SF
its all amazing land that would be magical for development of new towns and homes
Jordan Phillips
The people in the article obviously didn't bother taking cost of living in to account. One even got smart and took a pay cut to move but would come out on to because cost of living was lower. It probably put him in a lower tax bracket too. My guess is the places available don't meet their standard of living. They think six figure income means 2k+ square foot house in a gated community. It probalably would back in the home town where they grew up anyway.
Levi Wood
Lane splitting is legal in california, these faggots are too scared to ride a bike.
Kayden Stewart
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Liam Hernandez
>his 22-mile commute to work, which can sometimes take up to two and half hours
How the fuck is that possible? Is it 22 miles of traffic jam?!
Brandon Brown
he should just buy a bike
you get around so much faster by bike in the bay area than by subway or car
John Gray
>make like $20k/year >live comfortably
Easton Stewart
Oh no, how terrible
Jeremiah Hernandez
Why the fuck would anyone want to live on Michigan Avenue. Nothing but tourists and bums.
Jason Peterson
Its the lack of good public transport. The buses take forever to get you somewhere. Everyone takes a car to work if they can afford it, but there is lots of traffic jam because of how everyone has a car(Crashes, road work).
Leo Cruz
Making more than a million dollars a year and still complaining That's fucking amazing, at least they work real jobs and earn their money tho so nobody can give them shit
Lincoln Scott
Alot of the bigger tech companies are akin to cults. They encourage you to move walking distance from the office, give kickbacks if you do their internet and crap. Its like the big company in Wall-E, they want you to be completely dependent and loyal to the company. They don't want telecommutes, those people aren't team players, they don't want people of certain lifestyles for the same reason. These people crying about it are idiots for giving into the allure of high tech slavery anyway.
I make like $1000 a month renting rooms and doing oddjobs and I live nice. I'm also thrifty and saved money in my 20's so I'm not complaining. I live a carefree (mostly) life by cutting out all the crap that would make me suffer like these mooks.
Xavier Cox
It would take a decade to put up a highrise. San Fran is like earthquake capitol of the US, and because of fucking environmentalists, it litterally takes over a decade to build a fucking apartment complex. There have to be environmental impact reports done on the area and all that shit.
I live in San Diego, and the cost of living has skyrocketed because the flood of illegals has completely saturated the market, and there haven't been any significant living accomodations to keep up with it. They just had a story on the news the other day talking about how it takes over 10 years from the time the land is purchased, until they can actually start building.
Then there are some liberal retards calling for rent control, which would essentially keep the rent stuck at a low price, causing ZERO new apartments to be built. It's fucking insane.
Adrian Cruz
Except Chicago is basically a war zone while San Francisco did a fine job of keeping all of the brown folks on the other side of the bay.
Today SF is like 50% White, 50% Asian, and nothing else. It's really nice living in a large urban center without the rampant crime and violence.
Aiden Thomas
32 floors up on a SW corner unit with unobstructed views in both directions. I just like the view. I'm an introvert and my work is all on the computer and phone, so I really don't care about what's below me.
Charles Campbell
SF tech worker here
These stories are a bit exaggerated. I think someone is trying to push some political shit. Not sure what tho.
I make $155K, but have plenty to spare, even after $3k/mo rent. I bought a house in Las Vegas a few years ago and keep that.
What's shitty about the SF area is not the salary or work. It's the general living conditions. "Multicultural" society has no cohesion. Chinks, Poos, spics and nigs, and the slovenly remains of the old white working class (mostly drug addicted now). Police don't enforce laws, public servants don't serve the public and normal people are harassed by homeless and drug addled criminals daily.
For example, SF city government routinely and very exactly collects and maintains tens of thousands of parking meters around the city. If one breaks it will be fixed the next day. But they won't move the homeless camp next to the parking meter that breaks into your car at night.
Place is fucking Sodom. I'm leaving in two years.
Colton Gray
I came to San Francisco with absolutely nothing and literally got rich just because my room mate had a great start up idea and I just kinda got on board. Now I'm part of another start up venture that will likely end up selling for multiple millions.
No where else on earth is it as easy to get rich as in San Francisco, seriously
Luke Adams
Because the state desperately needs to expand its public transportation. With the population density they approaching they need somthing like what Japan has in place.
Angel Kelly
It's Poos who are the real problem here.
Aiden Price
>If you never lived in SF in your 20's or 30's you really fucking missed out on life
Yeah sure. Pic related.
Jackson Cox
But I'd imagine you don't have a liberal's standard of living. You're giving up on purchasing the newest smartphone/laptop every 6 months, leasing the newest eco-friendly car every year, spending hundreds of dollars on clothes to look like you're homeless, taking a month vacation each year in Europe, hosting a dinner party for all of your friends each week, and making large charitable contributions to whatever is the trendiest non-profit that season. You're really missing out user.
Ryder Sanders
That neighborhood you posted is full of 10/10 qt's, no crime, and probably some of the best restaurants in the world.
Wyatt Cruz
Another day I'm glad I live in Texas.
Joshua Rogers
90% of the crime is in 10% of the city. Trump said himself there's 2 Chicagos. Where I'm at is close to Trump Tower, safety isn't an issue here. I'm fairly fit too, so considering all the softer targets around here, I don't think I'll ever have an issue.
I'm basically just here for the view though. I lived in Naperville (western suburbs) with my parents till I was 28 and came across a lucrative business. Being here is a vacation in itself to me.
Zachary Martin
>San Francisco >hottest women
NIQQA PUUHHHLLLLEEAAASSSE
Manhattan >>> SF
Lincoln Hill
Ignorance isn't intelligence
There is more than just social media start ups in the Bay
It really is a hub of innovation, we just need to kill venture capitalists
Jackson Clark
This is my major beef with all of the Silicon Valley tech giants . If they would nurture the remote working environment employees could be spread out across the country and it could do a lot to help revitalize America.
It disgusts me that they hoard themselves together in SanFran.
They have the money and resources to harness remote working and show other companies how to do it
Lincoln Cruz
>literally no greenery Holy fuck americlaps you have so much fucking space on your continent and you're incapable of doing anything but grey gridblock.
Owen Hernandez
I live in pittsburgh and I making $23,000 a year. I own my home and only have to drive 20 minutes to work everyday. my bills total about $600 a month and I pay basically nothing for food because I work in the restaurant business and get a free food. If I double I get 3 free meals. I love the people I work with so I feel like I get to go hang out with my friends all day. It also helps that I don't drink or smoke.
I'm able to save ~$1200 a month. Kind of odd that I'm able to live better on $23,000 a year and people making 5 times that are struggling.
Adam Gonzalez
>Canada >guns
I thought pellet guns were banned in Leafland?
Ayden Ortiz
Rus tech worker here. I make only 20-24k $ a year. And pay 10 yr mortgage for a small 24squere metrers flat. You fat murricans. Why not outsorse here, i'll work for half of what you get, kek.
Josiah Sullivan
I never knew SFers are so fucking provincial. "some of the best restraunts in the world" my fucking ass.
Also, solly fol youl yerrow fevel
Leo Myers
- move to some small town - work from home or rent a local office.
Luke Hall
I lived there and their attention to parking tickets was astonishing.
All those signs of convoluted cleaning hours/days and if you aren't super vigilant and get your car out of the spot at 5am to 5:15am you get a 60 dollar ticket and bullshit like that
SF could invade Iraq with its fleet of cushmans and metermaids
Daniel Moore
Liberals aren't communists.
Hunter Campbell
Because of these fucking motherfuckers Bay Area is shit.
Oliver Clark
That looks like the sunset
it is comfy beyond belief there
man I actually miss living in SF despite the insane faggotry and 90% liberal shit
Chase Powell
How does it compare to L.A. and New York? Similar enough to not care or are there perks that only San Fran has?
Nolan Turner
And nowhere on earth is it easier to lie about how much money you make than Sup Forums
Parker Ward
Sigh...I am starting to hate indians as much as puke maggot trash mexicans.
Leo Scott
Wait a minute it just hit me. Why the fuck do TECH JOBS have to be concentrated in San Francisco, or any other location in the first place? Can't they just communicate over the web or something and work from home in goddamn Siberia or wherever? Do they all need to get together to hold hands and take latte breaks or something?
Fucking techfags
Hudson Thompson
Nigga that's already been happening. Business and people have been fleeing Cali for Texas in record numbers and they've been fucking everything up. Almost all TX major cities are liberal now
Brayden Garcia
I've lived in NYC too and the women do not compare at all.
Everybody knows that the West Coast has the hottest women hands down and SF has the hottest women on the West Coast.
Besides NYC is way too fucking cold so you can't even tell if a girl is fat or hot because of all the layers.
Dominic Sullivan
Remote worker here.
I would never hire remote workers.
Anyone spouting this notion that everyone can simply work remote are not being very realistic about reality.
Colton Hill
It looks like a fucking favela, only it probably has more fucking brown monkeys
Telecommuting isn't really a thing anymore
What area do you work in? I'm a CCNA Admin and I'd never have a remote worker either
Zachary Williams
It's pretty much common knowledge that San Francisco has the world's best food scene.
This is an established, undeniable fact. We have more highly rated, michelin star restaurants per capita than other location on earth.
Lincoln Walker
Also a remote worker here. I understand your point that it takes a special kind of dedication and accountability and other traits to work from home and while it is not something that anybody/everybody can immediately start doing it is definitely something that a tech giant like Google could lay the foundation for others to harness and use as guidance.
Jaxson Williams
Brother works there for 90k and wife make 70k. They have a car, an apartment, and go on 1-5 vacations. Live well and go our a bunch.
Aristocratization is real
Austin Moore
>make 120k a year >made 700k last year >can't buy a house What the fuck?
Nicholas Nguyen
I'm sure you go to many of them inbetween Sup Forums shitposts
Gabriel Butler
Because the Bay Area is considered by many to be the greatest place to live in the world. Companies come here because they know prospective employees would rather live here than anywhere else. It's a huge draw.
Jaxson Hall
Because this asshole won't take the train.
Daniel Perez
>only it probably has more fucking brown monkeys
There are no black or brown people in SF my friend.
William Rivera
The tech industry has already started moving out of Silicon Valley, and have established themselves in Texas and in various states in the Midwest.
Jose Kelly
In Washington and California it is actually easier to live if you can convince the judge that you're incapable of working, you can get on disability and fast track you on housing assistance
My sister and mother both did it.
Ian Fisher
Because it is where the workers are already.
You don't get a tech job in the bay area unless you come from one of 5 schools, already work tech in the area, or h1b.
Easton Howard
>Hispanics >Not brown monkeys
Dylan Anderson
The one who live here long time and work for taxi or 7/11 are not the real problem.
These literal codemonkeys are the ones behind the high prices. They also nepotistic af, always hire their own. They are like mafia in IT. I know people who are trying to sue some companies where mostly Indians work for discrimination.
Ryan Hill
More fake news. Tech companies are moving here at a higher rate than ever before. For every company that leaves the Bay Area 10 new ones move here.
Kayden Nelson
The bay area actually fucking sucks. It's fucking cold.
Im dreading the day they figure out that San Diego has better weather
Jeremiah Anderson
There are no latinos in SF. They all live in the East bay (oakland, richmond, berkeley, etc) or south bay (san jose, etc)
SF is 99.9% White and Asian
Nicholas Cox
>make 10k a year working from home >live in a small solar powered house >no shower, I go to the gym 5 mins away for that.
I only work 5 hours a week, play video games and watch anime the whole rest of the time. I only net about $200 per month but fuck my stress level is low and I can do what I want
I don't care how much money you give me, it's giving half my life afuckingway for nicer things I don't give a fuck about
Ian Harris
There's nothing to do in San Diego while the possibilities and opportunities in SF are near endless. I'd kill myself before living in a shitty suburban cartel run border town like SD
Eli Anderson
Supply and demand.
If there's 1000 millionaires who want to own one of 100 houses that means that 100 millionaires will pay lots of money and 900 millionaires will not have a house.
Welcome to capitalism 101.
Noah Perry
Pittsburgh is awesome, love that city
Gavin Gomez
>Make 35k a year self employed >live in an actual house in the middle of no where in a state with no income taxes, but hardly there anyway due to work >only work 9 months out of the year >go on vacations 2 months a year >buy video games, expensive dinners, and alcohol without a second thought >just bought a new jeep >still save 10k a year
Hahahaha Being rich is a state of mind you workaholic cucks
Hunter Morales
>27k/year >dad left me his house when he died >can afford utilities, property tax, phone and cable with plenty of disposable income >looking to buy new tv with sound bar and several guns this year
These faggots can fuck off
Lincoln Perry
>If you never lived in SF in your 20's or 30's you really fucking missed out on life and I fucking pity you. Yeah, lets all 7 billion of us take a turn in faggot town. KYS
Nathan Anderson
those houses are all really really nice with a tiny little comfy backyard
weather is basically perfect all year
mountains everywhere, amazing land all around
most of those houses are either rich asians or rich whites
I used to just roam around those neighborhoods at 3am in dense fog and it was magical
Bay Area food is overrated.
thing I liked most was taco trucks
city where I had most consistent tasty food was actually Philadelphia