Job offer in SF....yes? no? hell no?

[tonym9428]

Originally Posted by 04kL4nD

Poverty is a state of mind, just as much as it's an income bracket. A Bay Area family of four living on 100k isn't going to be living comfortably, in a good school district, have money saved for college/extracurricular activities/vacations/etc. You make $12 an hour and share a 1BR apartment and seem to be OK with it, but for most people that's the far, far below the threshold for an impoverished lifestyle- especially people who are coming from other parts of the country where their hard earn wages go so much farther.

This is why people are entitled....and it's not the millennials, it's actually old people.

[04kL4nD]

I don't see how anything I said makes me entitled. Simply stating the cold hard truth that the Bay Area is unaffordable unless you make a ton of money is not the same thing as complaining about it not being "fair".

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by tonym9428

This is why people are entitled....and it's not the millennials, it's actually old people.

What do you mean by entitled? A family has an entitled attitude if they don't want to live in a shared household with other people?

[ssmaster]

Originally Posted by neutrino78x

It's workable at $12/hr too! I don't know what ivory tower some of you live in where $90k is just barely getting by.

And people raise families while working at WalMart, so you definitely don't need 200k to raise a kid. 200k is the richest 1% of the country. You're telling me that only the richest 1% of the country can raise a kid in the Bay Area?

What is your source that 200k income is in the top 1% of income?

Most of the data I have seen list above $400k as the top 1%

[neutrino78x]

Originally Posted by ssmaster

What is your source that 200k income is in the top 1% of income?

Most of the data I have seen list above $400k as the top 1%

I guess the current figures are that 200k is top 6% and 250k is top 4%.

Still in the same ballpark. It's also double the median income for the region (Bay Area). 100k, the median income in Silicon Valley, is in the top 20%.

Source:

http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/i...ank/index.html

So yeah, 200 or 250k...that's a high salary, even for where we live.