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You're absolutely right.

If your salary is $140,000 a year in San Francisco (this is well above the median salary in San Francisco), you'll end up with around $95,000 after taxes. A decent studio apartment in San Francisco costs at least $3500 a month, or $42,000 a year. If you don't feel like paying this much money, you'll have to live with multiple roommates or deal with a long (probably more than 2 hours per day) commute. Now you're left with $53,000. If you're frugal, you'll spend around $20 a day on food or $7300 a year. If you're lucky, you'll spend around $3000 a year on utilities and gasoline in San Francisco. I'll assume you already have a car. Now you're left with $42,700. Not bad.

If you're able to keep your job for the next 7 years, you'll have enough money for the down payment for a $1.5 million house in the Bay Area. A house worth less than that in the Bay Area is probably not suitable for raising a family. 7 years without eating out a single time, going on a single trip, or spending a single dollar to entertain yourself, and you can finally pay the down payment on your dream home (which probably isn't all that great). Now you can look forward to paying $10,000 a month for the next 30 years to pay off your mortgage.

If you don't want to spend your next 37 years like this, I guess you're a loser (according to another user).
Just out of curiosity what is the flipside or the "greener grass" scenario here? Because most of the world is more or less the same, in terms of major cities and metro areas being unaffordable.
 

Michaelsinodef

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Just out of curiosity what is the flipside or the "greener grass" scenario here? Because most of the world is more or less the same, in terms of major cities and metro areas being unaffordable.
Probably that there aren't comparable 'bad' neighbourhoods in China were you have to worry about walking on needles, encountering drug addicts, countless homeless, unsafe streets were one could get shot etc.
 

coolgod

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Besides Taiwan, Ukraine/Zelensky also got sold out by the US during Blinken's visit.

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Ukraine Could Be Forced to Compromise​

With support for the war against Russia waning in the U.S., the counteroffensive may define a new border.​

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Top US official to meet Ukraine war sceptics from developing nations​

Jake Sullivan to fly to Copenhagen at Kyiv’s request to meet India, Brazil and others in ‘global south’

Joe Biden’s top national security aide will fly to Denmark this weekend at the behest of Kyiv’s government for an unannounced meeting with representatives of several developing countries that have not condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Jake Sullivan, the White House national security adviser, has agreed to attend the meeting in Copenhagen with officials from countries including India, Brazil and South Africa, according to people familiar with the plans. The list of attendees has not been finalised and could change before the gathering, one of the people cautioned.
The diplomatic offensive comes as Ukrainian leaders have acknowledged their highly-touted counteroffensive is progressing more slowly than hoped. Officials from Turkey and possibly China could also attend.
One of the people familiar with the plans said that, following the Ukrainian request, Washington has been encouraging China, India, Brazil, Turkey and South Africa to attend.

Given the real reason why the US sabotaged the original peace plans during 2022 was to threaten China (on liberating Taiwan), it explains why Blinken was so butthurt meeting Xi to beg for assistance in ending the current conflict in Ukraine.

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Overbom

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All sorts of memes are popping (!) up on Reddit about the sub. It seems the folks over there have no love lost over rich people dying 10k ft underwater.
Sorry, poor folks cant relate with people who spend as much money as what they get in years to go in a suicidal trip for fun.

Poor folks have more serious things to worry about. Back to Wendy's for another shift now
 

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Debris is consistent with a 'catastrophic implosion' of sub
The debris found at the sea floor was "consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel," First Coast Guard District commander Rear Adm. John Mauger said.

OceanGate says those aboard sub have 'sadly been lost'

OceanGate issued a statement moments ago on the status of the sub. "We now believe that our CEO Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, have sadly been lost.

Being cheap on safety is exactly why regulations exist. Tho in this case there is no regulations and unlikely to exist for civilian purposes.
 

coolgod

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U.S. senior officials caught off-guard by Biden's calling Xi a 'dictator'​

Officials privately insisted that Biden's comments didn't represent a new administrative talking point.
Officials privately sought to clarify Wednesday with the Chinese that Biden’s description of Xi does not reflect a new talking point or official policy shift by the administration. Officials said they don’t expect the controversy to be a major setback to the progress Blinken made during his China trip.
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Biden defends calling Chinese leader Xi a ‘dictator’ and says he still expects to meet with him​

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday defended his harsh public comments on China, including calling President Xi Jinping a dictator, saying his words would have no negative impact on U.S.-China relations and that he still expects to meet with Xi in the future.

Biden said his blunt statements regarding China are “just not something I’m going to change very much.”
“I expect to be meeting with President Xi sometime in the future, near-term. And I don’t think it’s had any real consequence,” he said, speaking during a White House news conference alongside visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Just hours earlier, however, China’s embassy in Washington said it had delivered a formal protest, with Chinese Ambassador Xie Feng telling senior White House and State Department officials Wednesday that Washington “should take earnest actions to undo the negative impact” of what Biden said or “bear all the consequences.”

Be Modi.
Trying to look important and goes to the US. All the press cares about is China this, Xi that. Proceeds to look awkwardly at the audience.

Regardless of how India spins their independent relationship with the US, the western MSM has managed to overshadow that with the notion India is just a tool used by US to counter China.
 
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LawLeadsToPeace

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Why are they mad at China doing anything positive or anything that can be positively attributed with it?
In their eyes, anything China does is fake, stolen/copied, or going to be used for a dysutopian, fascist, communist and anti-human rights purpose. The only good China was the pre-Xi China. South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan, however, are the best countries (yes, they are fervent pro-Taiwan supporters), and they believe so because their wives are from there. If a video of an Asian person doing something good comes out, they must be Japanese or Korean. If the opposite occurs, they must be Chinese.
 

H2O

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Why are they mad at China doing anything positive or anything that can be positively attributed with it?

About this Reddit site (or any other site to be honest), be aware of possible AI and NGO activities on there. Not every user is a genuine person. Some are really easy to spot while others will require a bit of work to out them. However, this doesn't negate what LawLeadsToPeace posted.
 
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About this Reddit site (or any other site to be honest), be aware of possible AI and NGO activities on there. Not every user is a genuine person. Some are really easy to spot while others will require a bit of work to out them. However, this doesn't negate what LawLeadsToPeace posted.
Larger subs are so infested with bots that they are basically unusable for any conversation. It's the only social media I know of that is somehow more astroturfed than twitter.
 
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