$160k was fine as a single guy with a severed vas deferens living illegally in punk warehouses in Hunter’s Point and East Oakland for sure.
I couldn’t imagine being a nuclear family on one income, or two if both aren’t in the six figure range.
What kind of fucked up luxury bubble of self indulgent privilege do you live in with that idea? There are literally millions of families out there in the world (and in the developed world too) who support themselves, even with multiple kids, on much less than just one of these "low" $160K salaries, let alone two of them. Try living outside the world's most voraciously expensive tech bubbles of overpriced idiocy for a little while to see how the literal other 99% of the planet by some miracle live well enough to raise healthy kids. What blind nonsense some people here comment.
you want to support an entire family in one of the most expensive localities in the world on a "average" developer salary?
A full time job should be able to do that. That it doesn't is an abhoration.