• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    And you don’t even have to be poor. We live in Indiana. Our house is worth far less than any blue state houses. We couldn’t afford to buy a house in a blue state. I hate it here, but I’m here to stay until the housing market collapses.

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        High income if you have a job lined up already. Having been jobless in California, I don’t wish to repeat that.

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            Or just be willing to hustle? Being young helps too.

            I got the job before heading to SF. But another friend of mine in tech sold everything he owned in Ohio, and rented a room in a house for like 800/month and lived with 4 other dudes in a huge house in the inner Richmond. Got by on app hustles until he found a gig coding.

            He’s back in Ohio now bc he decided to breed and be closer to family because of it. But he had a solid couple of years more in SF than I did. I kind of regret not just going for it sooner like he did.

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        Wages haven’t kept up with increases in CoL for years, and the pandemic skyrocketed the latter while barely budging the former.