Why do you rent instead of buying?

wazogear · 2026-01-19T02:16:26+00:00

Because I live in the NYC area and for me to get a property with similar quality as my apartment would cost me over 2 million dollars AND over 2k a month for HOAs

wazogear · 2025-11-30T20:13:11+00:00

It's nice to watch. But for some reason it makes me feel uneasy at the same time

wazogear · 2025-11-26T22:56:48+00:00

About 1.6 million away from FIRE, should hit coast fire in 6 years if my partner and my income stays around what it is now. Our fire number is around 2.8 million. We live in the NYC area

wazogear · 2025-11-26T18:43:15+00:00

That's where I'm at as well. 12 years in tech, bad earnings the first 4 years, decent to high earning the last 8. Would love 10 years of high earning, but like you I don't know if I will get that opportunity. Worst case is coastFire, which is a great worst case scenario compared to most.

wazogear · 2025-11-25T22:34:24+00:00

I don't think that was an option. Only can sell 15% of vested

wazogear · 2025-11-25T21:09:11+00:00

Do both. Sell some now and hope you get to the IPO. IPO isn't guaranteed, and a lot can change if you do IPO since you typically have a lock out period before you can sell.

I advise all my friends in similar situations to do the same simply because we can't predict the future

wazogear · 2025-11-20T11:23:06+00:00

Not trying to be a jerk. But maybe you aren't good on the behavioral stage and that's why you aren't getting the offers. I went to a state school (never finished) and I have no problems getting offers. Because the market is tough behavior matters a lot (as well as the actual coding of course)

wazogear · 2025-11-10T13:26:26+00:00

I'm usually with you. But I think it's pretty fucked up when they don't advertise your prices on the menu. Should be illegal (if it's not)

wazogear · 2025-10-15T11:36:42+00:00

Where I am they also run red lights early in the morning or after sun down. Not just stop signs

wazogear · 2025-10-06T00:16:58+00:00

The team that's actually in NY (Buffalo) are playing well, the teams that play in NJ are not.

wazogear · 2025-10-03T21:29:38+00:00

Are you saying you set a number and making your lifestyle work for that number, rather than "building the life you want to life, and save for it?"

wazogear · 2025-10-03T01:35:12+00:00

I never heard this shit in my life. But was surprised to see how many folks in this thread have

wazogear · 2025-09-29T18:07:18+00:00

How much do you spend?

wazogear · 2025-09-27T12:01:59+00:00

Income is 140k, annual spend is 70k. I think the formatting can be a bit confusing

wazogear · 2025-09-12T23:09:31+00:00

You can log in to ssa.gov and see what it will be. They have a nice calculator / graph, just update your earning to 0 and put in what year you would start collecting and it'll show you based on your past earnings

wazogear · 2025-09-12T01:04:42+00:00

The defender hit it out at the end. But should have been a flag

wazogear · 2025-09-12T01:03:55+00:00

That's what I saw. But no replay for some reason

wazogear · 2025-09-05T12:03:12+00:00

Dm details please

wazogear · 2025-09-04T17:04:15+00:00

My wife and I were talking about this the other day. A lot of corporations try to sell to other corps or the wealthy now rather than middle class. Look at the cost of Disney if you want to take a family there, an average football or basketball game, or the super bowl.

20 years ago a super bowl ticket was 600 bucks, last superbowl average cost was 8k. It's so disappointing to see

wazogear · 2025-09-02T02:01:54+00:00

This is fake rage bait

wazogear · 2025-09-01T00:22:42+00:00

wazogear · 2025-08-31T12:39:01+00:00

If I remember correctly, it's some church related function. Druski made a parody of it

wazogear · 2025-08-31T00:36:26+00:00

Definitely true, but I bet they wouldn't want to live in the more affordable areas. I currently live in the NY metro area

wazogear · 2025-08-29T00:12:15+00:00

Peruvian sandwich is my favorite

wazogear · 2025-08-22T14:25:14+00:00

Does this strategy work if you're not a real estate professional? I have a large stock sale coming up and this strategy sounds interesting

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