Techies in California’s Bay Area say inspite of receiving some of the country’s best salaries,  the high cost of living has them feeling financially strained

One Twitter employee complained that it is ‘pretty bad’  getting by on a six-figure salary in San Francisco 

The software engineer was ridiculed online after complaining about his struggles living on an income of $160,000,   says “I didn’t become a software engineer to be trying to make ends meet”

Another Bay Area techie on $700,000 wrote that he accepted a 50% pay cut to relocate to San Diego, sacrificing his habits of “spending $8 on a bagel and coffee or $12 on freshly pressed juice”

Less endowed fellow San Franciscans not impressed, as one sarcastically twits – “Scraping by in the Bay Area on a six-figure salary sure must be difficult!!” 

San Francisco has more homeless people per square mile than any American city, behind New York – HUD

 
Twitter corporate offices

An emerging fact of Americas silicon valley is complaints from well-compensated tech workers who say that they are struggling to get by. The cost of housing is a common complaint among Bay Area techies. Engineers can expect, according to one analysis, to pay between 40% and 50% of their salary renting an apartment near work.
Given that big tech companies pay some of the country’s best salaries, still the growing concern among the workers is that the high cost of living in the Bay Area has them feeling financially strained. But how is this going down with the other 99% of Bay Area residents who do even qualify for home purchase?
A Twitter software engineer in San Francisco was ridiculed online after complaining about his struggles of living on what he deemed a “pretty bad” income of $160,000.
“I didn’t become a software engineer to be trying to make ends meet,” the beleaguered techie told the UK paper, The Guardian .
The anonymous 40-something Twitter staffer detailed his pain of paying $3,000 in rent, though it was  “ultra cheap,” he said for a two-bedroom Bay Area house with his wife and two children. He blamed millennials and their “hip coffee shops” for pricing him out of the market for a bigger house somewhere else.

The ‘tough life of the techie’ strolling and biking through Facebook plaza in San Francisco

Homeless woman sleeps on the streets of San Francisco

Fellow San Franciscans were not exactly moved.
“Scraping by in the Bay Area on a six-figure salary sure must be difficult!!” San Francisco Chronicle reporter Lizzie Johnson tweeted in response to the story.
A University of San Francisco PhD student quipped, “Because the real story about the Bay Area housing crisis are the tech workers ‘scraping by’ on $160k per year.”
The unnamed cheap tweeter wasn’t the only one in Silicon Valley who went public with six-figure sorrow.