>>12824623>That wasn't obvious, you're deliberately massaging the figures. I am not? I used cops as a comparison because most people have a good idea of how cops lives. I also know in particular the example of my friend in Toronto which is another expensive city and he lives in a tiny flat, but now that I think about it he could also have mean Canadian dollars, so 96k USD which is still good early career. I did not try to hide thatI mean midcareer salaries of 120k (easy for any cop with ambition) I don't why you are implying I did.
>The question is why? I have no agenda, I am making conversation.
>Why do you want to make out that people earn more than they do? In the first place we should always talk wages so that we understand our market value. Only our employers want to prevent us from knowing what others earn. Secondly we all should aspire to more.
>http://www.sportofmoney.com/...This article is again corroborating what I'm saying:
>Based on my analysis, the annual cash outflow needed to afford an upper middle class lifestyle is $485,000>To me, an upper class family in Manhattan with 2 kids should have a home around 2,500 square feet with 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms in a luxury full service and full amenity building. So yeah that matches up almost exactly with the "earns more than 400k" couple I mentioned earlier. I don't know about you, but 2.5k sq feet is cramped man. You could have a way, way bigger house if you earned 100k living outside a city.
> median household wage in NYC is $63000> median, not average As I said earlier wage slaves tricked into going to the city (who, btw, are literally cheaper to employ than if they were actual slaves and employers had to cover their living costs; I will look up the article I read on this for you guys) still manage to survive somehow, but it is not a nice existence. Definitely not the kind of lifestyle an engineer like OP could have in France.
