Eh, inflation has happened, and taxes, medical bills, and real estate are insane these days. So much so that you can't live a "normal" life of the standards of 20 years ago with less than $500K+ in salary. (At normal "middle class" modest levels of life hat's $250K after taxes, $200K after medical expenses, $150K after rent, $100K after food, $50K after transportation, $25K after food ...)
Sounds outrageous but most people have been brainwashed into thinking living with roommates in a cramped flat full of mildew, giving up all dreams of owning a home, and driving an old, unsafe car is the new norm.
Given that, $10M isn't really that much, considering you need to hire software devs to do any of the work they propose, and those software devs are getting $500K+ offers everywhere else.
You can't live a "normal" life of the standards of 20 years ago with less than $500K+ in salary 
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Tf is wrong with you that you're spending $50k/year on medical expenses
Get insurance neighbor
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It's because he's spending $75k/year on food.
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lmao thats like 200 dollars a day
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It's possible to live on that little?
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Bruh that's only like 20 Big Mac meals (3 Big Mac meals in Canada)
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But muh $2k/month necessary DoorDash bill.
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He actually allocates more than 2k/month for food lol
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bahahaha I was pulling a guess out of my arse too. Figures. I worked my butt off for a couple months in 2021 and DoorDashed every day. $1500/month. Waste of moneys IMO but I wasn't struggling at all. If you're some schmuck crying about money, it's the easiest expense to cut.
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He was on Martin Shkreli's prescription plan.
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hrt and dilation expenses are a thing, chud. And what if I can't find time to dialate my wound this month? I need to have Dr. Mengele redrill it and that ain't cheap.
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i can't tell if this is satire or not
are you ok?
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I think ur getting ripped
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Long 👏 covid 👏 is 👏 deadly
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I spend 50K on insurance so I don't go broke because some guncel shoots me
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This is your brain on California.
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They'll spread
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policies across the country 
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locust
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We need to build a wall across the James, Ohio, and Mississippi rivers to keep them from moving south !dixie
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lol
They're all coming for us, at least the cities, and they're bringing their taco trucks with them. At least I can still drive a half hour to the boonies and see some real culture (drug overdoses).
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Building a wire fence across the rockies and nuking texas cities and new york would fix it
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They've already fricked up Texas, maybe the Deep South still stands a chance
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yeah my last visit to austin was bustling for sure
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It's not a policy, they're just overpaid and rarted.
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It's true though. Not even just California. In Massachusetts a starter home costs $1.5m
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Maybe in Boston, ik from looking not long ago that there's still reasonable areas (few
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North Carolina? Lmfao 🤣
You gonna say Iraq next?
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Post house
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Mountainside NC
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I think he's around Asheville idk I've been out of the country and haven't had a chance to visit yet.
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Buy an Airstream, holy shit lmao
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Where?
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Better buy now then. House sale prices have gone up 63% in like 8 years.
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Aren't they a bong?
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neighbor never looked at a economic stat before.
Median household income is $70k.
People frick with debt to much to keep up with the Jones, but most people aren't r-slurred enough to pay $4,000 in rent.
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500K annually is the cutoff that puts you in the top 1% of American earners. I wonder how these idiots would react knowing that they're saying that only the villains of Occupy Wall Street are able to live a middle class life in the US.
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The point of these posts is generally exaggerating the situation so lefties can get that hopeless doom feeling they joined their death cult for.
It's the, “we can't be happy without gommunism” schtick but, “ma bustle house is 1.5m!”
Home ownership is easy. Do like your forefathers and go buy land and build a house on it you fricking losers
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But I don't want to live in Idaho on 16 acres of gorgeous land for cheap.
I want to live in the hustle and bustle where the people are. But I also don't want to be near people.
Why did Republicans do this to me?
Don't forget to turn off signatures in settings!
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Childless neets love to blame politics, the economy, and global warming for their failures
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This sin much worse when you adjust for age.
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But my exposed brick wall!
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If I can't afford $75 fish taco Tuesdays at the barcade every week what's the point of living
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I unreasonably impressed a gathering this summer by making fish tacos out of frozen fish sticks from sams club
I made a lot of pico de gallo because I had tons of tomatos I wanted to use, along with onions, peppers, and cilanto from the garden
then I thought "wait, if I add fish sticks, I have a fish taco"
sure enough, with shells, lettuce, and the right sauce, it tasted a lot like the expensive ones in town lol
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Happy for you that it went over well but if the restaurants near you are serving
frozen fish sticks you need to move somewhere civilized. 
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if restaurants were serving these I would go more often
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Hey guys I don't know if you know this but I've got enough exposed brick and wiring that it looks like I live in an abandoned warehouse. Only runs me $5000 a month
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I make double all my friends and people I know except like 2 who are sales/lawyers n shit and I'm poverty maxing the same starter house to turn into a rental and allllllll of my friends making sub 100k/y ran out and bought 360-500k houses at 6%.
So dumb. I'd rather live in a fricking car than watch 3k get eaten by a fricking property.
And I'm not even Jewish!
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Yeah we could tell. If you were jewish, you wouldn't be poor
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Wrong.
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I live in a 90% jewish community and the only person who is remotely poor is a literal orphan who grew up in foster care
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That's what I keep telling my wife
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I'm good at not debtmaxxing but I make a lot of small/medium tech purchases
Doesn't seem as bad when I have buddies with two car payments though.
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Car payments! Plural!!!! Every time you step on the gas you lose money. What the frick
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Yes my buddy had a car payment on a used sporty coupe and new truck, $30k and $90k respectively lol
My other friend had a used truck for $40k and some beater car I think he paid off over four years? Really funky setup.
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I'm gunna buy a horse and buggy from the Amish at this rate. At least you can eat the horse when it dies
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The year is 2078. The residents of Neo California subsist on a bare salary of 5 million dollars per person.
They are only able to afford takeout 5 times a day, and connect to the lifetime in a minute sim once per day.
They find themselves emotionally and physically overwhelmed by their 1hr of work a day.
Life has never been harder.
The only thing giving them the strength to carry on is their anger at the injustices of life, injustices they remember from how far they have fallen since their forefathers time.
The mythical times of 2002 are known to every child of Neo California, where 1 man could afford two mansions, fricking a politicians wife, and his own special forces security team, on a salary of 10,000 USD per year, working 50 minute days 3 days a week.
Those days act as a reminder of what could have been, and what the borgarese elite of the North American Alliance and their greed stole from the people.
If only the trillionaire class weren't so greedy, life could have been better, and the youth would have felt like life was worth living and children worth having, but how could any sane man or women think of bringing life to a fricked up world where 1 person dies in North America every day.
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If only you could put that energy into your relationships
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Is Blind leaking?
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Needs more
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The frick is wrong with this guy?
A one bedroom isn't 4k/month even in SF.
Stop ordering DoorDash every day. It doesn't cost 1k/week to cook for yourself.
Huh?
Is he buying a new car every year?
In conclusion this neighbors r-slurred.
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This neighbor cant do math, for starters.
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What removing letter grades in school does to a mfer
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Californian.
It's something in the water.
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I'm fairness, a bone marrow transplant is 750k pre insurance.
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maybe his family is rich but he's trying to connect with the struggle but just lives in dad's 2nd lake house and doesn't know what things cost
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Why do they include food twice in their list of expenses? Is this some sort of second breakfast shit?
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Redditards are fat news at 11
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What kind of r-slur is paying rent on a salary over 150k, you just buy at that level neighbor, I actually do live in a city where you need to make 500k/year to enjoy a boomer quality of life but on much less I still manage to own some apartments because rent is for dopes.
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Cause the bank shouldn't be giving you more than 700k at that income and good luck finding a home at that price in SF where these people live.
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The problem is just that they're unwilling to commute
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Driving 45+ minutes in heavy traffic is a special kind of heck tbf.
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The problem is they're not good enough to demand WFH
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Well yeah, I don't blame them, 1+ hour commutes suck
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I'll pass on having a big chunk of my wealth tied to a single non-liquid asset, thanks.
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I love the myth that all software devs make $500k a year outside of being higher up the wagie chain in San Francisco or NYC. lol
Get out of a HCOL city you dumb c*nts.
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I have a little giggle at people doing regular everyday jobs but paying more in rent annually than I paid for my house, just because they live in a coastal state
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Some of this shit I've never heard of and @BigSpookyHunter don't remember "hidden fees" when @BigSpookyHunter was a young renthog. But what is he talking about with shit like:
utilities
moving costs
furniture costs, etc.
Does this dumb neighbor think someone else should pay for this?
@BigSpookyHunter stand with Israel and publicly shaming dumb-dumb idiots
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Lol how often is this dude moving/buying furniture that it counts as "monthly rent expenses"
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Who the frick are these hypochondriacs averaging 50k in medical bills annually
50k on food? That's $136 per day.
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poor detected.
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Im sure this takes into account how much cheaper shit got
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I feel better knowing that some people still have standards and I'm disappointed in all of you who think he's wrong.
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The market will fix this!
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He's spending 75k/year on food...
MF spends $200 ON FOOD EVERY FRICKING DAY.
No wonder his medical expenses are 50k/year LMAO
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Imagine spending$50k a year on medicalshit and then complaining that your life sucks. Just let nature take it's course you know, you're not owed a fantastic existence it's not for everyone. If you're unhappy, just die.
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Fat frick losted food twice
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What living in silicon valley does to a mf
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This is the kind of trolling I like to see on HN
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Snapshots:
ghostarchive.org
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archive.ph (click to archive)
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Even with a generous estimate of depreciation, the Mazda I bought brand new in 2014 cost less than this over the last 10 years
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Why are y'all saying he spends 75k on food when he clearly says 100 + 25
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Smartest dramatard
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Oh yeh. I didn't actually read what he was saying lol
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