[oh-4-fucks-sake]

What's a "large sum"? If you compare how relatively spoiled we software engineers are to other (even white collar) careers, we're doing pretty darn well. Even if you're making super-low-end in the US at like $80k, many people in other careers would never dream to pull that much. Many of us are comfortably pulling $120k-$170k and that's unfathomable to many people. In everywhere but (maybe) the most expensive city centers in America, that's a very, very good life.

I'm assuming "large sums of money" here means (at least) $250k+. I guess I start to ask "how much is enough"?

[mathverse]

Putting it out here... lower-end in the US $80k is basically an average salary in EU.

[Dma54rhs]

What the hell? 80k is super salary in vast majority of EU.

[ChuckNorris89]

>$80k is basically an average salary in EU

80k is a very good salary in the EU. It's a senior dev salary outside of high-CoL tech hubs.

[calgoo]

Depends on the country Spain would be closer to 30 or 40k for example?