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Totally. "10% of my life" sounds a lot more significant than "3.5 years"

by ripper1138 3y ago

Dudester230602 3y ago
"I was nearby when cool things happened, hire me now, need to pay Cupertino mortgage rate."
- astrange 3y ago
  I'm not sure anyone under the age of 70 has a Cupertino mortgage.
  - fragmede 3y ago
    Maybe not on a $3 million 5-bedroom mansion in the hills, but with $500,000 1 and 2-bedroom condos, 20% down payment is $100,000 k, which is affordable by a high level engineer or product designer making $500,000/yr, especially if it's a power DINK couple making close to $1mm/yr. Whether they want to invest in housing there is another story, but let's not pretend the upper class is priced out of Cupertino. Eg https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/20488-Stevens-Creek-Blvd-APT-1113-Cupertino-CA-95014/64542887_zpid/ https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/20488-Stevens-Creek-Blvd-... recently sold.
    - astrange 3y ago
      There are not many of those. (Not many condos in the US in general for that matter, since they're pretty discouraged by housing laws.) Wonder how many 10s-100s of bids there were for it. Anyway, I'm not accusing Cupertino residents of being upper class, I'm accusing them of being old.
      - fragmede 3y ago
        "Some of them are old" is a different statement than "None of them are young", but I see your point. It's true to the point that the local elementary school was or is closing down due to lack of enrollment.
munificent 3y ago
"Well three and a half years is a long time in my life, it's longer than I spent getting my bachelors, or the two masters degrees I did at the same time. It's the longest I've worked at any job, and longer than most relationships I've been in." Dickens himself couldn't do a better character introduction than these two sentences.
ricardobeat 3y ago
And he starts by saying he has worked on VR for 10 years, so the title immediately stops making sense until you get to the very end :D
gopuck16 3y ago
When someone starts a sentence like this, I think its fair to assume that they are bragging about other things as well.

Totally. "10% of my life" sounds a lot more significant than "3.5 years"

Dudester230602 3y ago

"I was nearby when cool things happened, hire me now, need to pay Cupertino mortgage rate."

astrange 3y ago
I'm not sure anyone under the age of 70 has a Cupertino mortgage.
- fragmede 3y ago
  Maybe not on a $3 million 5-bedroom mansion in the hills, but with $500,000 1 and 2-bedroom condos, 20% down payment is $100,000 k, which is affordable by a high level engineer or product designer making $500,000/yr, especially if it's a power DINK couple making close to $1mm/yr. Whether they want to invest in housing there is another story, but let's not pretend the upper class is priced out of Cupertino. Eg https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/20488-Stevens-Creek-Blvd-APT-1113-Cupertino-CA-95014/64542887_zpid/ https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/20488-Stevens-Creek-Blvd-... recently sold.
  - astrange 3y ago
    There are not many of those. (Not many condos in the US in general for that matter, since they're pretty discouraged by housing laws.) Wonder how many 10s-100s of bids there were for it. Anyway, I'm not accusing Cupertino residents of being upper class, I'm accusing them of being old.
    - fragmede 3y ago
      "Some of them are old" is a different statement than "None of them are young", but I see your point. It's true to the point that the local elementary school was or is closing down due to lack of enrollment.

munificent 3y ago

"Well three and a half years is a long time in my life, it's longer than I spent getting my bachelors, or the two masters degrees I did at the same time. It's the longest I've worked at any job, and longer than most relationships I've been in." Dickens himself couldn't do a better character introduction than these two sentences.

ricardobeat 3y ago

And he starts by saying he has worked on VR for 10 years, so the title immediately stops making sense until you get to the very end :D

gopuck16 3y ago

When someone starts a sentence like this, I think its fair to assume that they are bragging about other things as well.