>In parts of the Bay Area, $105,350 is 'low income'
>If you're among the Bay Area residents complaining about the rising costs of living, here's another report to solidify that view: In parts of the Bay Area, a six-figure income qualifies as "low income."
>That report comes from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which helps determine who's eligible for subsidized housing.
>In HUD's latest numbers, San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo show that an income of $105,350 for a family of four can be counted as low income. In those same counties an income of $65,800 is "very low," while $39,500 is "extremely low."
>In other areas such as Alameda and Contra Costa counties, $80,400 is considered low-income for a family of four.
In most of the Bay area that's pretty low. A fucking trailer on a small chunk of land costs 500k here. Shits fucked to.
Elijah Campbell
my computer cost more than that holy fuck
Brody Hughes
After taxes in Cali, $105,350 is about 50,000 at best to live off of, now factor in the insane cost of living at you are fucking are not saving a dime let alone house, car, and tuition payments.
Asher Peterson
Something should be done. These shits retire and move to less areas and ruin them. Look at what's happened to Florida.
Dominic Cox
But do you know how to skin a pig?
Adrian Mitchell
I visited once, I looked up how much housing cost close to fishermans wharf I could buy the nicest fucking condo on the beach back home (florida 727 area) for a small and I mean small fraction of what one of these houses cost
Gavin Scott
>After taxes in Cali, $105,350 is about 50,000 at best to live off of, now factor in the insane cost of living at you are fucking are not saving a dime let alone house, car, and tuition payments.
Edit >After taxes in Cali, $105,350 is about 50,000 at best to live off of, now factor in the insane cost of living there and you are definitely not fucking not able to save a dime let alone house, car, and tuition payments.
Jacob Green
Why do we even live in this shit hole?
Gabriel Lopez
This. The middle class gets fucked so hard senpai these are the real trickle down spenders. Half of your income goes bye bye here in CA. Not to mention sales tax around 8% on most purchases, and the gas tax just increased.
Cooper Lopez
Skippy?
Austin Martinez
Bay Area is really bad at the moment. My friend moved out of here to the mid-west and he is able to easily rent a large house out there for the same money that would probably not even get him an apartment here.
Carson Butler
24k netto euros in german are already pretty good
wtf burgers
Logan Murphy
Because we love our country or some shit.
Dylan Miller
Californians deserve all of it and much worse for being dumb fucking commies.
Leo Turner
>what is cost of living >what is purchasing power
a 24k netto german has more disposable income and more purchasing power than a San Fransisco Silicon Valley Nigger with 100k who has to pay 80k for rent and the cuckold tax
Wyatt Young
we don't want to abandon (((friends))) and (((family)))
Joseph Cruz
Because hand me down technology from a decade ago is still pretty sweet.
Today's electronic garbage was impossible technology 15 years ago, and we all still had fun back then. You aren't living a worse life, just a life in 2002.
Chase Adams
The funniest part about this is the income tax is not adjusted for cost of living so all of these retards are stuck in upper income brackets even though they live like 3rd worlders
>How small is too small? Inside the 28 sq ft, $500-month 'pod' an illustrator built into his friend's San Francisco apartment >Peter Berkowitz, 25, constructed a tiny bedroom pod in the living room of his friend's San Francisco apartment >One bedroom apartments in the city rent for $3,500 per month compared to his $508 per month to live in a pod >The pod is equipped with a fold-down desk, cushioned backboard that's slanted and LED lights for reading >He believes pods can provide a 'needed fix' for people who want to add a bedroom to apartments without rent rising >His eight-foot-long pod is also equipped with a sliding door and has room to store his books and clothing
I live here, since birth. Bought rental property in the 90's. Retired at 55, home is paid off. Kind of happy about the way things are going. Feels like being a greedy Jewish landlord...without the Jewish part.
Christopher Carter
and then there's this faggot
Robert Edwards
In Russia it's $1800 a year...
David Cox
Yeah but sadly our country doesn't love us back.
>abandon lol drag them too
wtf are you talking about yankee?
Anthony Collins
Fuck off Shaquil.
Hudson White
>The funniest part about this is the income tax is not adjusted for cost of living so all of these retards are stuck in upper income brackets even though they live like 3rd worlders I think you have a point here senpai how can anything be done?
Easton Morales
finally some good news
Jack Robinson
I wish my family kept a lot of the properties they had in California. My Great Grandfather had an 80 acre horse ranch out in Santa Barbara but sold it for peanuts practically. The shit house in LA my Grandma lived in that she payed like 10 grand for is now worth a million. Jeez... A house in Inglewood of all places is about 600k.
Brody Williams
>Have landlords gone too far this time? Nah landlords have little to do with it, they'd love to make millions on the dumps they own. The locals voted to make it illegal to destroy shitty old shacks because muh history so it's impossible for high density housing to be built. They literally voted to live in a shithole and pay out the ass for the privilege.
Benjamin Martin
Eliminate the Federal income tax
Lucas Reyes
>$508 per month to live in a pod That is some next level shit, this goes beyond even a cuck shed, this man build himself a cuck pod and he "only" has to pay $508 for what is basically a glorified 2,6 sq meter bed. I am a hilarious idiot, but I will never be that dumb.
Ian Martin
Bay Area dweller here. Family of 4, we get by just find on 145k combined.
And taxes aren't that high, we pay maybe 40k between the state/feds on our income.
Jose Foster
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Gavin Reed
>e get by just find on 145k combined. If thing are so great why does your wife have to work?
Owen Morgan
Yoga girls are the biggest farters.
Benjamin Hernandez
I would rather live in Lithuania, the land of my ancestors, than America.
Jayden Reed
Commied
Easton Cox
She works part time. Mainly so she can still get benefits: insurance, pension, etc. We could comfortably live off my income, but it would require some changes.
Angel Diaz
>>>/reddit/
Jonathan Reed
what do lithuanians think they are missing out on?
do you have access to good food and clean water? are your women fertile? do you have forests and rivers and mountains?
wtf is the problem. european cars peaked in the 80s, if you lived in a nordcuck country they wouldn't even let you drive the best cars ever made. best computer games are in the 90s early 00s, you can run that shit on african hardware.
Caleb Thomas
CA is still a shithole, and trending towards a 2nd world country, but it's not as bad as anons say.
It has at least another 10-15 years before it turns into Brazil.
Bentley Perez
No you would not.
Brayden Wilson
>but it's not as bad as anons say. Do you actually live here?
Lincoln Rogers
>paying for the "privilege" to live in a $500-month cuck-shed
Anthony Turner
Yeah. In the Bay Area since 2008.
Jason Bell
wanting to make something a better read and more understandable... >le reddit meme k...
Luis Foster
>be software engineer >working in silicon valley >really successful job making 6 figures salary >still fucking poor, single, childless, and living in a shoebox living paycheck to paycheck
This is the future you chose. Once demographic replacement kicks in and the marxists gain full control of the government, all US cities will be like this. Places like NYC and San Francisco are just the canary in the coalmine. Our future is techno-feudal serfdom. Couple of rich kikes at the top. Everyone else living as a pauper, even in high-skill 6 figure jobs.
Luis Taylor
$140k family income here, public schools all around us are pure shit and private school for our 3 kids costs $20k/year.
Comparatively, our mortgage is low at $1,600/month for 1800 sqft, but we bought about 18 years ago when things were low. I would like to move, but we have a large family and they keep us anchored here.
Adrian Richardson
Reminder that cuckshed apartments are a form of white genocide. This is the sort of shit that keeps the white birthrate down. Is anyone going to be able to get married or have children when you're living in a cuckshed in sanfran? No.
Parker Nguyen
Fuck you, you liberal shill. Your Jew owners caused this shit, now you deal with it. 105k dollars should be enough to last you 4 years of cost of living, but you wanted to live in a progressive city. So you're paying for the brand name.
Hope it was worth it.
I live in TN, where 30k is considered meh tier. If you made 100k, you'd buy you a house every single year and just live off the rent money.
Caleb King
You are half right, there is still industry there, but if you don't think white flight and industry are leaving you are not paying attention... only people going to cali are degenerates who go to Hollywood/Babylon and illegals.
Jonathan Moore
I feel your pain. Our kids are young, 2 and 4, but I think we'll homeschool at some point for the same reason.
Cameron Turner
Faggots get out OUT OUT OUT
Jaxson King
The landlords are foreign speculators, largely Chinese and middle easterners, who are trying to gentrify the middle class out of the area so they can launder money and push a communist agenda for the rest of us. Not even kidding. One of the houses identified as Eric Clanton's possible address in Oakland sold for 295,000 in 2009 and sold again for 1.6 million in 2016. In OAKLAND. Oakland is a shithole.
Liam Turner
This is my home. Maybe the 3rd world people should leave first.
Evan Brooks
>27% in total taxes
Wow what flat out lie.
Aiden Sullivan
>Bay Area dweller here. Family of 4, we get by just find on 145k combined.
You don't see the problem here? If your family is bringing in $145k, you should be doing better than "just fine". That's the sort of income where you're supposed to be able to have a main house and a nice beach house and be able to pay for college for all your children.
Asher Cruz
I'll dig up my return from last year, give me a second.
Christian Myers
Exactly the same in the UK, yuppies in London started complaining when a Labour politician said that people who earn over £70k (~$90k - top 5% of earners) were 'rich'. It's a fair point though, because housing in London is fucking ridiculous. For what I pay for my shit shared flat, I could get a mortgage on a full house to myself in most areas of the north. London may as well be a separate country really.
Jacob Garcia
All memes aside, the bay area is paradise desu.
Henry Moore
are you including sales and property taxes?
Benjamin Harris
We could live a lot larger I suppose. Even so we take 2 weeks in Europe a year, I ski 10-15 days a year. And we still save so our kids can go to college without debt.
Jason Carter
Income/payroll only. We rent, so no (direct) prop taxes. Sales taxes are low considering we don't buy a lot of stuff and groceries are untaxed.
Jose Jones
if you can't make at least $105k/yr in the current calendar year then you are a subhuman and have no one to blame but yourself
even the "cash me ousside" girl just became a millionaire at the age of 14
get it together, cucks
Angel Perry
>In parts of the Bay Area, $105,350 is 'low income'
>tfw you can't wait for this bubble to burst >tfw when it all comes down, greedy jews who invested in realty to jew tenants out of mucho dinero stand to lose most of their investments >tfw on the way there, life in those high prices quarters will become ever more uncomfortable as groceries close and burglaries rise
Gabriel Phillips
perhaps you are not (exemptions like being a student), that is crazy abnormal for Cali, so i don't really believe it.
Cameron Walker
>We rent So you are not doing that great
Joshua Powell
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Christopher Peterson
It's a positive feedback loop though. because its the liberals' policies that cause things to be so retardedly expensive in the cities in the first place.
classic example of this is rent control. All rent control does is allow early adopters to get by living in luxury suites for pennies (and the people who get to take advantage of this are usually the richfags who don't "need" rent control in the first place). And because landlords are losing cash on these rent controlled apartments, it forces them to compensate by raising the prices for everyone else trying to rent. Which, generally speaking, are the lower income people who the rent control was allegedly supposed to help in the first place. Just an example of liberal bullshit fucking everything up. It's why cities like SF and NYC are so expensive.
Carter Green
>florida 727 area ofc buying dumpster land is cheap supply and demand, negroid
Andrew Jones
never understood which rich people complain about anything. it's pretty disgusting, compare them to some poor schlub in north dakota who lost his job and has to live in a trailer and government food stamps.
oh no rent is so high!
why don't you fucking sleep in a hostel then? wtf do you need fixed accomondation for in this day and age: work in silicon valley take home 80k live in hostel or a van (1 dollar a day) spend 10k a year on fun 5 years you made 350k and can go buy a mcmansion in texas and do homesteading or something.
living in a city you're probably almost never at home and eat out often. so wtf are you paying for? storage for your junk?
Also, are you and your wife white? I'm assuming either both of you or at least your wife is asian, and you probably have little happa elliot rodgers.
Alexander Wilson
>(((Berkowitz)))
Kek. Jews are suffering to
Luis Roberts
So the commie economics/laws make it that they can't build sky-high living apartments? Well good to know socialists get fucked over by their own methods, probably also a lot of taxes go to nigger/mestizo gibs?
Jeremiah Gray
I am 36, live in London and earn 23,000 per year. Please help me
Justin Scott
>never understood which rich people complain about anything. it's pretty disgusting I dont like seeing my state and country turn into a third world shithole
Jordan Edwards
> 2017 > Doesn't live in a truck on the parking lot Git gud
> A software engineer for Google saves money by living in a truck in the company’s parking lot. > Earlier this week a tech employee wrote in Quartz about sleeping in a 1969 VW Microbus to avoid exorbitant apartment prices. > Others have taken up shelter in backyard tents offered on Airbnb, which still go for hundreds of dollars a month. youtube.com/watch?v=10hRo2XEiKI
Hunter Phillips
>live in hostel or a van (1 dollar a day) No. You can't get proper sleep in those places. And you definitely need proper sleep if you work hard and long.
Luke Wood
if trump would kick out all these H1-B shitskin slaves then things would improve over night
silicon valley is scared as fuck about this
Jaxon Garcia
consider living in a van and travelling up and down the country doing odd jobs. diesel van is economical enough for you to simply double your income due to high demand for labour and massive shortage.
Cooper Morales
Jews are not adverse to letting their own propaganda affect their fellow kikes, just so long as it effects the goyim even more.
The jews who get caught up as collateral are merely part of the "whole burnt offering", aka holocaust.
Angel Davis
Wife is Russian/Anglo mix.
I don't see the ideological need for a house. Sure it'd be nice, but what we have suits us fine.
Joshua Ross
I think that I am pissed I have to move to that shithole for work this summer
Jaxson Foster
I don't see the ideological need to work in a city so expensive that your six figure income ends up effectively being no better than someone making 40k anywhere else in america.
Chase Miller
>proper sleep look at this faggot princess
>muh proper sleep and muh clutter and knick knacks
We save enough money to possibly retire (outside of CA) in our 40's. We're much better off than average.
Ian James
and feudalism in form of basic income, making unemployed masses dependent on rich aristocracy.
Ayden Jones
>145k >we get by now that's commieposting
Caleb Garcia
*affects
not sure how you fucked it up 1/2 times here
Julian Ward
>make 150k >share 300sqft apartment with 2 people California is literally a meme.
Aaron Brown
Min Wage in Brazil: 3810.61 US Dollar
Leftist government also makes employers pay 13 months every year. So we can buy Christmas presents to our nigga children. So if that was 12 months it would be even lower.
Jacob Wilson
Gay
Dominic Gomez
No, you're a little better off than average. Which is sad when you're making 145k.
You're not addressing the point. You live in a city that saps away the vast majority of your wealth and results in you living in what is considered _ANYWHERE_ELSE_IN_AMERICA_ the standards of someone making like 40k.
Leo Thompson
Funny fact is that an average wage is roughly about 2,5x times of minimum wage. while in UK he number is about 1.5. Not to mention of shadow economy, meaning that vast majority of minimum wage earners get some unofficial bonus in envelope, often exceeding official salary. Still, you;re making a point, Lithuania is a bit of an excrement hole. But not that big, still could be better tho
Mason Watson
I am an office administrator. I won't be using van to drive to the office. Besides I can't drive
Christopher Martin
>be CS grad from Bay Area >get job as a programmer/analyst for 60k >literally can't afford to rent an apartment near where I work >have to rent a room out of someone else's apartment for 2/3rds of my paycheck >no access to kitchen or fridge, living off cooking meals in my rice cooker
Tfw I have the same quality of life as a NEET except I work 8 hours a day.
As soon as I finish getting 2-3years job experience I'm moving down to San Diego.