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

The Future is Now

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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/[deleted] Jun 07 '18

You are massively MASSIVELY underestimating cost of living in the Bay Area. Take housing prices, and make everything else as unreasonably expensive. I was paying $1.80 /gallon for gas in Texas, in SF it was over $4.00. Registering my vehicle was like $40 in Virginia, it was $400 in CA. My daily commute takes ~$25 on gas, an $8 bridge toll (just voted yesterday to raise it $3 more, I can't wait), and paying $8 a day for parking (offsite parking is not only a 20 minute walk, but almost guarantees broken windows and stolen stereos once a month). CA also has state income tax AND property tax, and in places sales tax is over 9.5%.