• scarabic@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    You’re attempting to make a long and carefully formatted post look like a convincing argument, but all you’ve done is cherry pick high wage occupations. You are simply showing again and again that you cannot contend with a topic in terms of aggregate metrics and will do anything to skew the picture to match some picture you have an emotional attachment to.

    If we’re going to cherry pick, shit, I earn over $500k in one of these HCOL areas you say are such pressure cookers. My house is nearly paid off. I guess this is a great area for families to move to, right???

    I’ll say one thing… I never have to work so hard to justify where I live as you have here.

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      11 hours ago

      Show me the place where you can both earn the $100k AND afford the homes

      That was your original comment. I listed off major cities with decent supplies of housing stock available below 500k

      You responded

      How many $100k jobs am I going to find in Milwuakee and Detroit?

      As well as pointing out that

      median household income in Pittsburgh is in the low $60k

      I pointed out that major cities tend to have high paying jobs available for highly skilled workers. You specified working in tech and demanded real world data, so I provided real wage data showing tech jobs and highly skilled jobs paying over 100k and in the interest of fairness I included some where the median isn’t a full 100k but many workers in that field do make over 100k.

      So in conclusion, I listed off major cities where one can both make 100k and afford homes. Let’s not move the goal posts anymore please.

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        10 hours ago

        Exactly one comment earlier, we have you stating your case as a broad generalization:

        Lots of homes are *easily* affordable with that income. Buy elsewhere.

        Now you want to claim that as long as the 99.99th percentile can satisfy your claim, it’s valid. Who’s moving the goalposts, here?

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          6 hours ago

          What are you even arguing anymore? Is it that important to “win” at this random internet argument?