A 23-year-old Google employee lives in a truck in the company's parking lot and saves - Page 2

Oerets · #11 10-21-2015, 11:07 PM

After my last visit to OAK/SFO in the spring and seeing what the prices are for lodgings then. Not surprised at all. This is nothing new, having worked in the Airline industry and seeing the crash pads and RV's for employees. Sucks, but one will do strange things to keep a good job.

Barney

VanishingPoi · #12 11-01-2015, 10:01 AM

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Originally Posted by catswiththum

Interesting - does not mention Brandon's salary.

As a software engineer he should be making 65-70,000 +.

Sounds like he has a plan.

$65 or $70 thousand is nothing around here especially around the San Francisco area that is much more than around where I live with the cheapest rent being $1,499 a month and you still have to pay ALL utilities. And don't think you are going to get your big ass deposit back either. A cat is $50 a month and dog is $100 a month with another hefty deposit of $500.

Oh, they don't come with a frig, you have to rent or buy that separately.

donquixote99 · #13 11-01-2015, 10:41 AM

Ahem. A guy making 70K, hmmm, 45-50 after taxes, OK, 1500 + utilities is going to eat up close to half of that. saving by cutting expenses makes sense. He'd better be planning to get his own startup going with the savings.....

BlueStreak · #14 11-01-2015, 12:07 PM

I stay in my tiny house that I bought in the 1980s and make the long commute because the house payments are $490/mo.

If I were to move, even into a one bedroom apartment, my monthly living expenses would double at least. I'd rather be putting that $500/month towards my retirement, thank you......................

VanishingPoi · #15 11-01-2015, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by donquixote99

Ahem. A guy making 70K, hmmm, 45-50 after taxes, OK, 1500 + utilities is going to eat up close to half of that. saving by cutting expenses makes sense. He'd better be planning to get his own startup going with the savings.....

Where the Google guy lives is almost incomprehensible. He was paying $2,000 a month to share a space with others. That tells you how much that fricking area cost. I have a friend that lives in Palo Alto $3,000 a month.