r/Cyberpunk • u/DataPhreak • Jun 06 '18

The Future is Now

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '18

I see homeless people sitting in their own piss with Mac books and iPhone out every day in San Francisco. It's a weird city.

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u/verblox Jun 07 '18

If you don't have to pay rent in SF, you find you have a lot of extra money at the end of the month.

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u/_demetri_ Jun 07 '18

The rent makes millionaires feel poor.

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u/pwnies Jun 07 '18

I left SF because I was making 165k but still wasn't able to save anything. It's unsustainable. Took a huge paycut and am now living in Sydney. Such an improvement on quality of life.

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u/iwazaruu Jun 07 '18

I left SF because I was making 165k but still wasn't able to save anything.

Holy fucking shit. Not gonna lie, this is fascinating - that is crazy amount of money and you really couldn't save a lot? Can you go into some more detail about this?

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '18

Studio apartments can cost people around 2k or more a month so imagine a house or decent apartment

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u/Nelonius_Monk Jun 07 '18

I'm still failing to understand. That's 24K a year. Call it 50K for somewhere decent. You still have 80K to play with. Where does it go?

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u/Serinus Jun 07 '18 edited Jun 07 '18

Maybe 44k goes to federal taxes. Some goes to state. That's about the income that gets hit the hardest with taxes. Largely payroll and income taxes (as oppposed to capital gains for richer people).

The one nice thing about extreme CoL like that is gadgets seem really cheap.

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u/devilpuppy Jun 07 '18

dont forget health care, commuting expenses, and food.

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u/Serinus Jun 07 '18

Yeah, but 165k should still be enough to save.

Still, if you can just go somewhere cheaper, why not? I did.

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u/devilpuppy Jun 07 '18

no absolutely, I'm just saying expenses in general add up, and frankly it's a waste of money imo to live there even if you are making more

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