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Comment by zeroxfe | Hacker News Reader

Speaking as a New Yorker, $130k is not "barely a living wage", unless you have a really distorted definition of "living."

You do not need to commute 2h for reasonable housing -- I lived in Brooklyn (which, for me, was a very comfortable 25m door-to-door commute), and was very happy there.

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You're right, I shouldsn't have lumped NYC (in all of it's five borroughs) in with SF.

NYC actually has neighborhoods that are affordable, often only a few blocks away from expensive ones.

$130K is not barely livable.

Keep in mind that $130k is also total comp. including bonuses that you are elegible for, but might not actually get, and even if you do, might not be in a form actually worth the face value.

> including bonuses that you are elegible for, but might not actually get

This does not seem to be true. https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/FactSheet62/whdfs62Q... says:

  Cash bonuses and similar compensation may be counted
  or credited toward the $60,000 only if payment is
  assured.

and it's not clear to me that the proposed updates change anything about that other than the numeric value.

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