What kind of life does the post-80s with an annual salary of one million live in Silicon Valley?

On the plane from Shanghai to San Francisco, I met Tom, a Korean-American who works in Silicon Valley. Through in-depth communication, I accidentally pieced together a life with an annual salary of one million in Silicon Valley after 1980s.

Please listen to me in detail.

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After boarding the plane, I carried a black schoolbag, a pink handbag and a plane ticket, looking for a seat 25B.

25B was in the first half of the cabin, and he saw his seat without walking a few steps.

There is a man sitting by the window in the 25th row. He is wearing a blue T-shirt. Seeing my arrival, he said to the stewardess standing behind the seat, "You are right." The stewardess said, "I know, it always happens."

With my female sensitivity, I roughly guessed their previous conversation. The stewardess may say that you will meet a woman on this trip, and maybe she is sitting next to you.

My arrival just verified the flight attendant's guess.

I gave him a disdainful look and ignored him. Take out the computer and a book from the schoolbag, put the schoolbag on the overhead rack and sit in the middle.

Soon, the passengers on the other side also arrived, also male. He put away his luggage, sat down, took out a book and read it like no one was watching.

I tore off the packaging film of the new book "Writing Class" and began to read.

The plane originally took off at 12: 10, but arrived at 12: 10, and the plane did not move. The voice of the stewardess came from the radio: the plane will take off late due to the traffic restriction at the airport.

Fortunately, I have enough transit time to read.

The man on the right looked at me and asked me, are you still a student? I said, no, I'm working. Then, fall silent and read separately. I glanced at his book, and he was fascinated by those things in the Ming Dynasty.

The man in the blue T-shirt on the left twisted his body from time to time, trying to find a comfortable sitting position. We took United Airlines, the model was Boeing 747, the seat space was very small, and his figure was not slim, so it was really difficult to find a comfortable sitting position.

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I have forgotten how we started chatting. Before the plane took off, the blue T-shirt man introduced me to the delicious food and scenic spots in San Francisco, and wrote down the name of the restaurant in his notebook, which impressed me deeply and let me relax my vigilance.

The man in a blue T-shirt is Tom, a Korean-American who came to Chicago with his parents when he was five years old. After graduating from college, I came to work in San Francisco.

Although he was born in Korea, he is not a typical Korean face because he lives in the United States. On the contrary, he has an American face. He has beautiful big eyes, double eyelids and a high nose. He is not fat, but he has a general's belly. Sure enough, one side of the soil and water support one side. He has lived in America for a long time, and his figure and appearance are in Rome. It was not until he got up to go to the toilet that I found that he was not tall, about 1.7 to 1.75 meters. It's shorter in America.

His biggest hobby is food, so he knows the best restaurants in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Las Vegas, and also recommends authentic tacos and burritos to me. He knows that sushi in San Francisco is the best. He will fly to Japan to taste delicious food. As soon as he talked about delicious food, the whole person became angry, and all kinds of discomfort in the previous position disappeared.

He said, "Thank you. You saved my life. Before, I was too unforgivable. "

I said, "Food saved you."

The plane took off two hours late. Before taking off, we had talked about the food and attractions in San Francisco.

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He asked me if I would like to travel to America, and I said, no, on business.

Then he asked me what company it was. I said the name of the company.

He said: I know your company.

I was surprised, because few people in China have heard of this Dutch company. When I finished reading the company name, others could only silently shake their heads and say, I haven't heard of your company.

I asked him how he knew about this company. He said, I also work in the semiconductor industry. I used to work in Intel, but now I work in XXX company. I am a design engineer and project manager. Besides, my uncle used to work in your company.

Suddenly, I feel like I met a bosom friend in a foreign land.

Our topic changed from food to work.

He works in Silicon Valley and often comes to Shanghai on business because some of his team members are in Shanghai.

He has a pair of beautiful eyes, but unfortunately there are thick dark circles around them.

I asked, are you busy at work?

He said that except for eating and sleeping, he was basically working. You need to work more than 60 hours a week, and you often work on weekends. In his own words, it is because there are "teammates like pigs." His team is not strong enough, and many things need to be done by himself. Although he flew from the United States to train the team, their desire to learn is not strong and they are always afraid of making decisions. So many things need him to make decisions.

Although we didn't talk about salary, according to my understanding of the industry and his working years, his income is definitely more than 6,543,800 yuan, and the company also has a rights issue.

With an annual salary of 6.5438+0 million, what kind of life do you live in the San Francisco Bay Area?

Renting a house in San Francisco is very expensive, he said. The average rent of an apartment is around $5,000.

He joked: Generally, young people who have just graduated will have roommates, because they don't have much money when they just work. After working for a few years, there will be no more roommates, and they usually rent independently. But in San Francisco, if you are not married, you will always have a roommate. Because the rent is too expensive.

I said, do you have a roommate?

He said: Yes, the monthly rent of $5,000 is too expensive for me. I need my roommate to share the rent.

They live in a house with two bedrooms and one living room.

He couldn't help complaining: I used to work in San Diego, but later I came to the San Francisco Bay Area. Although my salary has increased a little, the house price has been several times higher. Maybe I will go back to work in San Diego in the future.

He said, I can buy a house in Chicago with the money now, but I can't afford a house in San Francisco at all.

I saw a post on Zhihu, "What is the level of work and life in the San Francisco Bay Area with an annual income of about 6.5438+0.3 million yuan?" Someone replied that the annual salary of $65,438 +0.2 million is a good offer in any corner of the earth, except Silicon Valley. According to sfgate, Charles Schwab, a financial company, conducted a study on residents near San Francisco. The results show that no one in the San Francisco Bay Area is rich without $6 million. If you want to be "rich" in the Bay Area, you must have a net asset of at least $6 million, and a net asset of $654.38+$00,000 is considered "ample".

Judging from Tom's situation, except that he can't afford to buy a house in the San Francisco Bay Area, his life is fairly comfortable.

He will travel around the world. His passport has been to more than ten countries, such as Indian, Japanese, China, Korean, Spanish and so on. I know he was born in 1983, and he was born in 1983, because he showed me the country he had been to in his passport, and I caught a glimpse of his date of birth.

When I asked him what his hobbies were, he smiled and said that he just wanted to sleep after work. In fact, he is a foodie plus technology control and shoe control.

He has a cupboard full of shoes at home. On a business trip to China, he was drying shoes in a circle of friends, and he brought any pair he wanted. He has a black duffel bag for shoes.

He likes fancy's car. Basically change a car every four years. He recently bought a blue BMW.

Of course, with my keen perception, I found that he was still single. Maybe it's not easy to find a girlfriend in Silicon Valley. Someone in Zhihu said, "Don't come to the Bay Area without a sister, don't come to the Bay Area without a sister, and don't come to the Bay Area without a sister! ! ! Say the important words three times! ! ! Why? Because when you come, you can't find it. There are more men than women, which is more serious than domestic universities of science and engineering. You were one of the IT men in many plaid shirts and jeans when you came. Like others, you get a 100k a year, and you have no core competitiveness at all. How can I find a girl? Having a social gathering with three or four single women can attract twenty or thirty single IT men. I'm talking nonsense. Go to a Chinese restaurant for dinner and look around. Only the proprietress is a woman. I will talk nonsense. "

As for whether it is really that difficult to find a girlfriend in the San Francisco Bay Area, I will go to San Francisco to find out from my high school classmates. At that time, maybe you can write an article, "What kind of life did the post-80s China people live in Silicon Valley? 》

I don't know if his situation is similar to Tom's, single, sharing with others and working with high intensity.

Let me personally go to Silicon Valley to explore the IT people in Silicon Valley.

I'm Hongdan and I'm in Japan.

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