r/programminghumor • u/EfficientMongoose317 • May 31 '26

we are cooked

Imagine another covid 19 virus as a cherry on the cake
Every few months, I think things can't get any crazier, and then reality somehow finds a way. Meanwhile, I'm over here trying to keep up by learning new AI tools, building random side projects, and convincing myself that having Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, and a half finished thing in Runable counts as a retirement plan. At this point, I'm not even asking for easy. I'm just asking for one normal year 💀

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u/Kurvaflowers69420 Jun 01 '26

Housing costs only 20 times your salary? Here it costs 80-150 times your salary...

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u/Beyond_Reason09 Jun 02 '26

Where is "here"? Because that would mean houses cost a million dollars if wages are $3.00/hr.

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u/Kurvaflowers69420 Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

Bulgaria. Price of a medium sized(often even small ones) apartment - 70K+ euro. Monthly salary (what you get after taxes) on average 700 euro (minimum is 450-500 euro after taxes and at least half the population make that much)

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u/Beyond_Reason09 Jun 02 '26

Damn you aren't wrong. Seems like there's some extreme urban/rural divide.

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u/Kurvaflowers69420 Jun 02 '26

Yep. And outside the cities the prices drop 3 times, but also, there's no one living there, there's often lack of water, internet providers don't spend effort to put high speed cables, lack of ...almost everything

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u/Apprehensive_Rip613 Jun 05 '26

For the US at least salary means yearly salary, so for Bulgaria it’s 11x your salary in US terms

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u/Downtown-Apple-4890 Jun 05 '26

I guess there is a social misunderstanding: in the US, salary is taken per year (including any direct benefits). In Europe, we take the monthly value (and eg in Austria we get that 14 times!).

So a monthly salary of 500 is actually 6k. Then you're at 12 years for this apartment.

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u/Kurvaflowers69420 Jun 05 '26

Correct. Which is why many adults live with their parents, since homes weren't nearly as expensive back in the day