re: Where to Live If You Want the Highest Salary and Disposable Income

Has to be a place with the best salary-to-cost of living ratio.

Texas and Florida have to be up there. Get a high salary, pay no income tax.

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According to the article, San Fran is actually one of the best places to live for disposable income AFTER rent is accounted for.

Like someone said, if you can get a tech job there, you're probably a giant in the industry making bank and living the good life. If not, you're going to make message board posts about how San Fran is too expensive and a shithole.

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San Fran is awesome, and not horribly bad to rent if you make good-decent money, similar to NYC. Single and young, its a phenomenal place. However, like NYC you will need a roommate to really make it work.

If you're at a life stage where you want to buy or live in 2000 sq ft + house with outdoor space, then yes that is prohibitively expensive for most folks.

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Insane how normal everyday people can afford to live there.

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I have a lot of friends living out there who make "normal" money and they are fine. One guy, an LSU alum who is a school teacher, lives out there in Fairfax.....really cool little town about 30 minutes north of SF. They all say the high rent/mortgage is worth the quality of life.

At least in San Fran it’s just the rent that is crazy expensive. Everything is expensive in Switzerland, not just Zurich.

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Housing in San Fran will eat up any bump in salary you get, there's no where to live.

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If you’re making 200k, you can afford 3k rent to live somewhere comfortable

I've got a friend who lives there, she's gonna go to San Diego when she retires. She says the street people problem is real. Her car has been broken into like three times in the past year.

She makes over 300k.

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I pad 72 bucks for two burgers, one fry, and two diet cokes at a lunch spot.

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Same here. Last week in San Fran. I paid over $120 for 4 burgers, a glass of wine, 2 beers, diet coke ($5.50) and 2 waters. Insanely expensive there.

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Unlike San Francisco, I've never stepped in human shite walking out of a restaurant in BR

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Let’s be real, most people who make posts like this have never stepped out of BR in their life before.

I feel like their data are manipulated or just plain wrong in some fundamental way.

Do a search on the renter's website of your choice for SF CA - pretty much everything is 4k a month or more. Spending 50K a year for just the rent just doesn't make financial sense even if you make 40-50K more than you would in another state. You are probably still losing thousands or tens of thousands even before you adjust additionally for relevant taxes (which you should consider since your fed taxes will go up and your CA taxes will be relevant).

If you wanted to do better financially and live in the sun there are plenty of places in Florida (other than Miami) where you can earn a comparable paycheck and pay a tiny fraction of that for housing.

I bet they don’t shite in the streets of Zurich.