• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    If they saved enough for a house in three years, either they have a highly lucrative job or they’re in a market where homes are cheap or some combination of the two.

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      3 years is definitely a good amount of time to get a solid down payment. It’s not like a 25-year-old is going to buy a house with cash.

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        Depending on what anon does it’s possible. The flag is Portuguese you could pick up a one bedroom apartment for 3 years wages if you don’t live in Lisbon. Or in Lisbon if you have a good job.

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      Either they work oil wells in bumfuck South Dakota or they are a SRE with a Silicon Valley company.

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      My area, you can get a house for 100k, a better one for 200k. If you’re saving most all income from a 75k job like programming, seems reasonable to be able to afford a house in that timeframe. But that’s with very very little spending and still pretty cheap houses.

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          Where are “programmers” making less than 75k in the west?

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              You work on the internet, my God

              Half our team is from Spain and we pay us wages.

              Don’t be silly, market abroad

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                No, you don’t pay us wages. You adjust for local CoL like every company on earth, or you wouldn’t hire in Spain.

                Even in a fantasy world where your company is a unique snowflake that pays 150k a year independent of location, those are a dozen jobs for a country of 50 million people.

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                  As a note, my company, a fortune 50 company, does not adjust for cost of living. They adjust to cost of labor.

                  So if they were to magically hire overseas (not a thing they do), they would pay people from Spain average Spanish wages for the industry.

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                    Yep, that is actually the correct term, cost of labor. I work for a smaller one (NASDAQ 100) and they do hire remote and do adjust for cost of labor.

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                  Are you saying folks can’t hunt work overseas? These ludicrous. Of course taxes are paid

                  Edit we don’t pay 150, but around 80 for junior

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                You’re probably talking about contractors and gross pay. That’s probably why people here are misunderstanding your statement.

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            In Germany it’s difficult to get past 75k.

            I current have 52k and they refuse to pay more after 4 years of experience.

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      Huh? Rates are crazy but you don’t need much to get into a reasonable loan. If they had a semi decent job, say, 75k a year, and legit only paid for the things they mentioned, they’d have enough for a down payment on a modest place ez.

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          Why would an entry level job in Portugal be ready to buy a house?

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            Because the screenshot shows someone in Portugal bragging about buying a house and stull living with their parents?