California lifestyle costs go brrrr 😖
Material lifestyle apples to apples LA is about 20% more expensive than Seattle but if you want to maintain the same social class it’s more like 30%. Respectability costs more in LA because it’s a poorer bottom-heavy pyramid.
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What counts as middle class in Seattle counts as high people in LA or something. It’s all the starving actors I think. Central air conditioning appears to be some sort of class divide marker.
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I had a soft landing into California lifestyle economics thanks to Berggruen fellowship but now the full force of financial equation I’ve dropped myself into is sinking in. The lifestyle I’m accustomed to from Seattle has... unfunded obligations in LA.
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I will be introducing a ballot initiative of $3.50 on every 2x2 drawn in California called Prop 42V. Vote yes in 42V if you care about the environment. Me living in LA lowers carbon emissions.
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When we moved from Florida to SF we got a 20% pay bump but in real terms a 20% lifestyle cut. Taxes, rent, food, etc.
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