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If you're making 110k anywhere else in the US while single and without kids, you're buying houses and cars when you're not traveling.

Not renting a one bedroom and eating $14 avocado toast with your roommates.

"Not renting a one bedroom and eating $14 avocado toast with your roommates."

$110k before tax is $77k after tax. That's enough to cover:

Avocado toast for every meal: 3653$14 = $15k/year

Rent without roommates: 12*$3.5k = $42k/year

Misc other expenses: $20k/year

Socketsite pre-emptively debunks the article[0]

0: http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2018/06/a-six-figure-sala...

It’s also technically wrong because the range for a six figure salary is $100,000 - $999,999 and only the lower range is being considered low, not all six figure salaries.

Hey, us Davis students are having our own housing shortage, please don’t include us