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Your colleagues can’t afford AirBnB? Where do you people work anyway?

Hint: the phrase "you people" can be interpreted as hostile/divisive.

In case English is not your first language...

Hint: your comment can be interpreted as hostile/divisive.

Maybe if you tried hard enough, but a plain reading of his comment would judge it helpful and accurate.

“In case English is not your first language” is the problematic part.

That's stating the intended audience, otherwise you might come across as condescending or rude, since it's really obvious to any native speaker.

I'm a native speaker, and it's far from obvious to me. Whether it is "hostile/divisive" depends upon tone, something which is utterly lacking through this medium.

For what it's worth, when I first read the comment under discussion, I thought it was a humorous jab at the fact that software dev salaries tend to be quite high. That's about it.

Which country? It might be more US centric but I think it's well understood in the core anglosphere.

That particular construction unambiguously has the speaker referring to 'the other' and although that can be innocuous, it's very often used by people being divisive or offensive. So any use of it at all can end up making people question the intentions of the speaker.

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