Although I'm making very authoritative statements, naturally I'm only drawing from my own experience. It could be that you're used to making much more than what I made outside of California... I just know that what I made there was astronomically higher than what I made in places like Florida or Michigan, and that's considering that I wasn't paid especially well by Silicon Valley standards. I also made a point of finding an unusually inexpensive apartment, and I didn't own a car; I had been told that you can't get around the bay without a car, but this just wasn't true for me (although it can be quite time-consuming). In these ways I managed to accumulate a lot of spare cash, and in fact that was my express purpose the last time I went out there.
Sharing a house isn't a bad idea. It wasn't especially wise, economically, for me to get my own place, but at that point I was weary of roommates. You might be more tolerant.
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Date: 2002-08-02 14:08 (UTC)Sharing a house isn't a bad idea. It wasn't especially wise, economically, for me to get my own place, but at that point I was weary of roommates. You might be more tolerant.