Did you miss the part where I lived comfortably in the Bay Area on $30k/year? Who needs $45k/year?
And yes, I've also lived in Houston. It's cheaper, all, right. But it sucks. You have to drive fucking forever to get anywhere. And the weather requires A/C for about 8 months a year.
I really fucking hate yardwork, so I personally wouldn't agree with that, though I agree plenty of people would. I like living in apartments, in reasonably urban areas where I can walk to things. Bay Area is decent for that, though there are better deals if you have the capacity to move, like parts of Chicago. It's at least cheaper than Manhattan.
I guess I don't know about actual SF; never lived in the City. But I lived in the Bay Area making $30k and I felt like I was doing fine. Paid about the same as you for an apartment, which took a bit over half my income. Spent the rest on groceries, craft beer, and miscellaneous entertainment.
Buying a home is indeed absurdly expensive. But obviously I didn't exclude the cost of paying rent in my calculations, because I actually lived there, and actually paid rent! I paid about $1400 for a 1-bd apartment. That's $17,000/yr, which should certainly be doable if you make $80,000/yr.
I hear this a lot, but as someone who lived a good life for a few years in the Bay Area on a grad-student stipend, I don't really believe it, at least if you don't have kids. I don't understand how single people could make $80k and feel they can't handle the cost of living, unless it's due to social factors (all their friends make more, so they're spending a shit-ton of money on bars, restaurants, and other entertainment).
If you're a competent programmer and live in the SF Bay Area, wages are definitely not flat, to the point of absurdity. There are kids just coming out of college making $80k or more as a starting salary, and quickly rising up to $120k+ within only a few years of experience.
You seem to be unfamiliar with restaurants, but this isn't how the term is intended in the restaurant business. If that were the case, they would just list everything on the menu as "market price". The clear intent is to imply (usually misleadingly) that some prices vary due to the price the restaurant finds at the fish market, which may vary day to day, and this is given as the reason why the restaurant doesn't list a normal price on the menu for those items. Of course, that is mostly a marketing gimmick.
The latter: it's intended (imo) to evoke a perception that the price depends on what deals the chef got at the fish market this morning, which is typically not the case.
True in practice, though it's a bit misleading as a practice. The terminology dates to fish taverns that had fixed prices for items with relatively stable prices, but varying "market price" for items where the wholesale cost to them varied significantly, resulting in them updating their retail price on a daily basis accordingly. Of course, that's not how big fish restaurants actually set prices, but they like to maintain the fiction.
I agree it varies; my experience has been mainly in Texas. Also, my group coverage was via Kaiser Permanente, which does an entirely "in-house" system: you see Kaiser doctors at Kaiser facilities. In emergencies you can go outside the system, but if you go to a non-Kaiser doctor for non-emergency care the coverage is much lower. I've fortunately never had to visit an ER myself, but a friend of mine had to go to the ER in Brooklyn for a broken arm, and had to wait more than two hours before they put a cast on it. I assume the wait times are lower if you're having a heart attack, though.
Now I'm in Denmark where the service is actually quite good. Not only can I pick any doctor, but I can pick them through a nice online interface: there is a state-run website that lists all doctors within my municipality, and I can switch doctors there. And you won't wait 2 hours in the ER to have a broken arm set.
Yeah, I typically have to wait in the US to see a doctor for anything non-emergency. And definitely to see a specialist.
I guess there might be some super-premium service where you pay tons of cash out of pocket and get concierge-like service. But if you're a normal person with a normal health plan from your employer, you play by their rules to get scheduled.
Because of the weapon's design, the receiver on an AR-15 is a notoriously easy part to produce, and has been possible to produce on low-end CNC mills for years. It's not in any way the most difficult part of the weapon to produce; it's just the outer housing within which the actual functional parts are located. Sort of like printing a computer case but not printing what goes inside the case.
The Star Trek episodes presuppose some kind of distribution of that wealth, though. It's quite possible to have a dystopian version of a post-scarcity economy, where the technology exists to produce anything, but only one social class has control of it, and other people are basically their serfs. (In fact I'm pretty sure there are some good dystopian sci-fi books about this.)
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some experts aren't convinced that the data will be truly anonymous
You don't say? In particular, note the complete lack of incentives for the company to actually care how good its anonymizing is.
That's true: I used to live in California, but the taxes were too low for me, so I moved to Denmark. ;-)
Of course, now I actually get something for my taxes. I get 100% of my healthcare paid for, and great transit, among other things.
So what's the magical location that has real-estate price like Houston, but walkability like SF?
Did you miss the part where I lived comfortably in the Bay Area on $30k/year? Who needs $45k/year?
And yes, I've also lived in Houston. It's cheaper, all, right. But it sucks. You have to drive fucking forever to get anywhere. And the weather requires A/C for about 8 months a year.
Boston is by far the most segregated city i've been in (and I've lived in the South), so there is something to it.
I really fucking hate yardwork, so I personally wouldn't agree with that, though I agree plenty of people would. I like living in apartments, in reasonably urban areas where I can walk to things. Bay Area is decent for that, though there are better deals if you have the capacity to move, like parts of Chicago. It's at least cheaper than Manhattan.
I guess I don't know about actual SF; never lived in the City. But I lived in the Bay Area making $30k and I felt like I was doing fine. Paid about the same as you for an apartment, which took a bit over half my income. Spent the rest on groceries, craft beer, and miscellaneous entertainment.
Well, it's the 21st century and we're all modern now, so both partners would work, right? $80k x 2 = $160k. :)
Buying a home is indeed absurdly expensive. But obviously I didn't exclude the cost of paying rent in my calculations, because I actually lived there, and actually paid rent! I paid about $1400 for a 1-bd apartment. That's $17,000/yr, which should certainly be doable if you make $80,000/yr.
I hear this a lot, but as someone who lived a good life for a few years in the Bay Area on a grad-student stipend, I don't really believe it, at least if you don't have kids. I don't understand how single people could make $80k and feel they can't handle the cost of living, unless it's due to social factors (all their friends make more, so they're spending a shit-ton of money on bars, restaurants, and other entertainment).
If you're a competent programmer and live in the SF Bay Area, wages are definitely not flat, to the point of absurdity. There are kids just coming out of college making $80k or more as a starting salary, and quickly rising up to $120k+ within only a few years of experience.
You seem to be unfamiliar with restaurants, but this isn't how the term is intended in the restaurant business. If that were the case, they would just list everything on the menu as "market price". The clear intent is to imply (usually misleadingly) that some prices vary due to the price the restaurant finds at the fish market, which may vary day to day, and this is given as the reason why the restaurant doesn't list a normal price on the menu for those items. Of course, that is mostly a marketing gimmick.
The latter: it's intended (imo) to evoke a perception that the price depends on what deals the chef got at the fish market this morning, which is typically not the case.
True in practice, though it's a bit misleading as a practice. The terminology dates to fish taverns that had fixed prices for items with relatively stable prices, but varying "market price" for items where the wholesale cost to them varied significantly, resulting in them updating their retail price on a daily basis accordingly. Of course, that's not how big fish restaurants actually set prices, but they like to maintain the fiction.
There's still a lot of film/TV stuff that's available on DVD but not via online streaming, at least legally.
For fresh lobster outside of Maine, mostly shipping costs. The actual wholesale price, bought in Maine, was really cheap this year due to the glut.
There actually is pretty cheap lobster in Maine in the right season. Absurdly cheap, really.
Well, here's one bad review. Admittedly, it is 100% about the name of the tablet.
If most murders are drug-related, this could be modeling the spread of drug markets by proxy.
Couldn't you just use "regular" amphetamines for that, like (reportedly) Paul Erdos and Margaret Thatcher?
I agree it varies; my experience has been mainly in Texas. Also, my group coverage was via Kaiser Permanente, which does an entirely "in-house" system: you see Kaiser doctors at Kaiser facilities. In emergencies you can go outside the system, but if you go to a non-Kaiser doctor for non-emergency care the coverage is much lower. I've fortunately never had to visit an ER myself, but a friend of mine had to go to the ER in Brooklyn for a broken arm, and had to wait more than two hours before they put a cast on it. I assume the wait times are lower if you're having a heart attack, though.
Now I'm in Denmark where the service is actually quite good. Not only can I pick any doctor, but I can pick them through a nice online interface: there is a state-run website that lists all doctors within my municipality, and I can switch doctors there. And you won't wait 2 hours in the ER to have a broken arm set.
Yeah, I typically have to wait in the US to see a doctor for anything non-emergency. And definitely to see a specialist.
I guess there might be some super-premium service where you pay tons of cash out of pocket and get concierge-like service. But if you're a normal person with a normal health plan from your employer, you play by their rules to get scheduled.
We haven't had an update on John McAfee's "meth cooking in Belize" adventures for at least a day or so...
Because of the weapon's design, the receiver on an AR-15 is a notoriously easy part to produce, and has been possible to produce on low-end CNC mills for years. It's not in any way the most difficult part of the weapon to produce; it's just the outer housing within which the actual functional parts are located. Sort of like printing a computer case but not printing what goes inside the case.
The Star Trek episodes presuppose some kind of distribution of that wealth, though. It's quite possible to have a dystopian version of a post-scarcity economy, where the technology exists to produce anything, but only one social class has control of it, and other people are basically their serfs. (In fact I'm pretty sure there are some good dystopian sci-fi books about this.)