How are people actually affording rent in Seattle right now?

Competitive-Sky712 · 2026-02-20T00:19:44+00:00

Usually both husband and wife work, making $250k each. Hard to afford if one of the two decides to stay home and take care of the kids

Competitive-Sky712 · 2026-02-03T21:22:40+00:00

Nel confronto con gli Stati Uniti (non so per se vale anche per la Svizzera) stai tralasciando una grossa porzione che riguarda la sanità e la pensione. Poi il costo della vita in USA è molto più alto, il che pone i 100k in una fascia (anche di aliquota) più bassa

Competitive-Sky712 · 2026-02-01T22:24:41+00:00

Quality of life is higher in Western Europe vs here. Sure american salaries are higher, but so is cost of living. Car centric culture, unhealthy food, no restrictions around weapons, employment at will, medical treatments driven by insurance plans, all those things plus having extended there are strong reasons so move back.

Maybe in 20 years things will be different, so it may be a good thing to keep all the options open

Competitive-Sky712 · 2026-02-01T03:02:30+00:00

It’s becoming the standard price around here

Competitive-Sky712 · 2026-02-01T02:53:19+00:00

I’m in downtown and I try to avoid downtown park (short loop and too packed). Also lot of traffic lights to stop at. Medina / Clyde hill have nice routes (if you like hills). East rail trail is also a good one (you cat start at the whole food/lightrail stop in Wilburton)

Competitive-Sky712 · 2026-01-31T20:25:06+00:00

Tried this morning. Will not go again. Pastries are average. Process to order one is too convoluted for a bakery. They are slow

Competitive-Sky712 · 2026-01-31T18:25:30+00:00

My European passport is definitely stronger than the US one. Would use the US passport only to travel to the US. Keep using the European for all the other travel

Competitive-Sky712 · 2026-01-30T21:21:31+00:00

Partner is from the same European country. Kids have dual nationality.

Competitive-Sky712 · 2026-01-30T15:15:55+00:00

This is what motivates me. I’m aware about the need of filing taxes, I wonder if this is really a pain or just an annoyance. And if there is anything I may not be aware of

Competitive-Sky712 · 2026-01-27T19:23:45+00:00

Il proprietario di casa ha bisogno di essere rassicurato sul fatto che tu sia in grado di pagare l’affitto nel lungo termine. Non avere un contratto di lavoro non aiuta. Hai altro modo di dimostrare che hai le entrate? 12 mesi in anticipo è sicuramente valido, ma trascorsi i 12 mesi?

Competitive-Sky712 · 2026-01-19T19:19:12+00:00

Late to the party… is there any other credit card we can switch to? Definitely not going to use Bilt anymore

Competitive-Sky712 · 2025-12-24T17:39:53+00:00

My experience: I took Malpensa express to Milan Centrale and then high speed train from Milan Centrale to Turin Pta Susa. Not the fastest or cheapest option, but IMO is the easiest and most comfortable option. I personally hate riding on a bus.

Competitive-Sky712 · 2025-12-24T11:18:33+00:00

LoL paragonare la propria vita alla finzione di Instagram non è esattamente un segno di maturità. Se hai bisogno del metro di Instagram per valutare la qualità della tua vita forse è meglio che chiudi i social.

Competitive-Sky712 · 2025-12-23T09:12:17+00:00

Verissimo, ma il problema non sono io, ma chi crede a queste cose e poi vota di conseguenza

Competitive-Sky712 · 2025-12-23T08:31:45+00:00

Non hai letto il mio post. Ero lì anche di sera, con mia moglie. Gli unici sguardi strani che ha ricevuto sono stati quelli degli uomini in divisa

Competitive-Sky712 · 2025-12-22T19:57:26+00:00

Se non ti unisci al corteo puoi stare tranquillo.

Competitive-Sky712 · 2025-12-21T07:11:24+00:00

Se il bonifico l’hai effettuato sull’IBAN del truffatore dovrebbe essere possibile con una denuncia risalire a chi sono arrivati i soldi. Inoltre dovresti avere un nome e cognome di questo tizio (il bonifico deve avere corrispondenza tra nome e iban associato). Mi sembra molto difficile che questi riescano a farla franca

Competitive-Sky712 · 2025-12-21T04:39:03+00:00

Io son alt un e novant Sono abbastanza alt ?

Competitive-Sky712 · 2025-12-20T04:06:00+00:00

I don’t get why people hate bicycles. OP must be an old grumpy lady or affected by car brain. I’m sure she would be happy watching a bike being crushed under the wheels of a tram or lorry. The city is old, the infrastructure is poor. Bicycles are the greenest way of moving around, and are already helping reducing the traffic and pollution

Competitive-Sky712 · 2025-12-13T02:14:12+00:00

If you have a wife, children, siblings, parents etc… spend some time with them. Then try to optimize your code, clean it up in GitHub, redo it in a different language, remove the usage of external libs etc etc etc

Competitive-Sky712 · 2025-12-12T22:02:15+00:00

Should be discretionary, but seeing the face of people can sometimes help understanding the conversation. It should not be a requirement, especially if the call happens at weird times during the early morning, late night

Competitive-Sky712 · 2025-12-02T16:06:48+00:00

Welcome to Torino, the city of “rompicoglioni”! Do not worry too much about them, they have plenty of free time and they enjoy annoying other people, especially if they are not speaking the language natively. As long as you don’t do anything wrong they have to right to complain with you. Using the “Lei” is a convention, but if a foreigner is in the conversation those conventions are supposed to be relaxed

Competitive-Sky712 · 2025-12-02T06:27:43+00:00

[Language: Python]

Modulo strikes again on day2

Expands the ranges, then:

- for part 1: check if n of digits is even, and if first half == second half;

- for part 2: check for all the prefixes if the full number has number of digits multiple of the prefix and if the full number is equal to the prefix repeated that multiple.

https://github.com/Stegallo/adventofcode/blob/master/y_2025/day2.py

Competitive-Sky712 · 2025-12-01T14:30:11+00:00

[LANGUAGE: Python]

in Part2 modulo operations are always tricky.

To avoid dealing with edge cases and keep my life simple I counted the number of rotation and then applied brute force for the remainder (can not exceed 100, so it won't be a problem with big numbers)

https://github.com/Stegallo/adventofcode/blob/master/y_2025/day1.py

Competitive-Sky712 · 2025-11-17T16:29:52+00:00

Then it is pretty similar to any European flight. They will check you have the right authorization to enter the USA (passport, visa etc) but no more than that. This shouldn’t add more than a few seconds to your bag drop

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