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by seanmcdirmid
914 days ago
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L5 at google here, your numbers are a bit off. I’m in Seattle, so you can still get a one bedroom condo for $600k or so. HOA will top out at $1k, for a new place, it’s often much lower for those $600k places, like $300/month. I saved for my down payment while working for Microsoft in Beijing: rent is pretty cheap, even if a 1 bedroom apartment sells for $1m, you can rent it for less than a thousand a month. I did make less in China than what a level 64 would make in the states, but my expenses were pretty low. I bought 3.5 years ago, today it would be much harder, I would have sell some stock to put more in a down payment to make my mortgage payment more reasonable. It also helps that my SO works as a designer for another FAANG. |
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> It also helps that my SO works as a designer for another FAANG.
Thanks for confirming my point :)