Being good at estimating is an important skill for a developer. You are the one with the knowledge of what needs to be done to deliver a project and to be a good engineer you should be able to deliver a reasonable estimate so a decision can be made on what to invest in. If your guidance leads is wrong and leads to a bad investment, then it is not a misplaced judgement for you to bear some of the blame.
Yes, I think that net income chart is what people really should be looking at when considering salary vs cost of living but too many times these analysis are so hyper focused on home prices.
From stories I've heard from exotic car rental companies, it seems they end up renting to people basically at cost and the real money is made when they ship out 10 cars at once with a full time handler for a photoshoot.
It is possible but prohibitively expensive. A "good" price for health insurance for an individual still has ~$1000 monthly premiums. This isn't far off what employers pay. A good plan can easily be $15k - $20k per year in premiums paid by an employer.
Jaguar/Land Rover have been starting to do this. They have knobs where the knob label is a tiny screen and they change function based on the context of the menu you are in.
I think this has likely become worse in recent history. I expect all of these households have "internet" access through a smartphone, but won't have a home connection to use with school issued chromebooks.
I"m not a fan of riding a bike at Embarcadero. I would like to see more bike/walk areas like the one on Townsend between 7th and 5th where there is a clearly marked bike only and walking only section.
Their map doesn't make any sense to me. They show no expected migration to really any of the cities in the midwest but somehow they expect a mass migration of people from Miami to rural western Kentucky?
The constricted supply is very much related to the treatment of primary residences as an investment. Quintupling the supply would definitely cause prices to fall, but any homeowner in their right mind opposes that development because they might lose $500k+ of property value.
Airpods, not really. They still are the same uncomfortable plastic and not so great sound. Apple earbuds have always hurt my ears so airpods would be a no go for me. Airpods pro are quite a bit better but still won't be comfortable for everyone.
I should have phrased it differently, the 3x in cost primarily applies to housing while most other expenses only increase marginally. Overall costs are closer to 2x increase instead of 3
I think the numbers seen here for Pittsburgh miss a big part of the picture. There are only a handful of big tech companies with offices there and they employ a comparatively small number of engineers. Most engineers in Pittsburgh are not working at those companies and do get paid 4x less. These are pretty much dedicated AI offices that recruit from CMU and are companies that don't adjust pay much between locations
Just to back you up on this, the savings should more than triple. 3x the compensation probably more than offsets the 3x in costs, so your savings may be more like 5x or more compared to low COL areas.