[MichaelOldfield]

I guarantee you, it's harder in 90% of places in the world (accounting for buying power/price of real estate). You guys don't understand our privilege.

You can buy an f'ing house. In places like Ukraine people make $100/month and apartments are $50k(and I'm talking before the war). There, it's LITERALLY impossible.

What people here are describing is that things should be better, and I agree, but words matter.

[nine_k]

Google tells us:

In 2021, the median annual salary for software engineers in Ukraine ranged from $30,000 to $48,175, depending on location and experience. Some specific figures include $30,000 in Kyiv, $29,000 in Lviv, and $24,000 in Kharkiv. Remote software engineers in Ukraine had a median salary of $48,175.

It's quite below the EU median, but definitely not $100 a day.

BTW $100 a day is $12.50 a hour, which is more than the federal minimum wage in the US ($7.50 or so), and only $4 below California's minimum wage, $16.50.

[vonneumannstan]

I'm sorry but who is out of touch here?

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1460-Latham-St-Mountain-V...

$1.6M 894 sqft 2b1ba

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4609-E-Mountain-View-Dr-S...

$1.1M 930 sqft 3b3ba

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1763-Fordham-Way-Mountain...

$3.5M 1527 sqft 3b2ba

That last one would be considered a small starter home in my MCOL city and is literally 10x the cost for 300 less sqft of my current home. It's a total joke.

2 FTE Sr SWEs at Google would struggle to even get the downpayment for that last one. The mortgage is like 80% of their after tax salary.