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by notch656a 1314 days ago
There's a certain segment of people with a smug self superiority that think because they earn six figures in places like Seattle or San Francisco that the simple forklift driver in bumfuck, WI has even less chance of buying a home than they have.

They couldn't be more wrong.

While the forklift driver is slowly saving 10k a year for a 150k house, the SF bro is saving 50k a year for a similar house for $1M. Guess who gets to the target first.

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Nowadays one can also work remotely for an SF/Seattle firm and live in Appleton & buy a very nice house & talk about Bucks games at the bar rather than website capitalism.
It's a valid point but if your remote employee can live in Appleton they may also be able to live in Bangalore.
Probably gonna be true for drone-forklift operators too before long.
Well played, sir.