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What's rent like in those places? I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around thinking how devs get by on so little.

They are one data point and imo too low. Six years ago in Barcelona as a senior engineer the bands were 50-80k euros. Now the top end engineers (think team lead) top out around 100k euros.

300 € / room

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