Yeah… At this point, the housing in and of itself is minimum $5K-$7K if you want to buy on the peninsula (even EPA), and $5K across the bridge.
Also, there are multiple studies that have shown that post-tax $$ are worth less now than in the 80s. The wife went to work, but the family actually has less buying power now than before. As far as I can tell that’s clearly documented and not debated, and it’s not Bay Area specific.
The other thing is that the current retirees–for now–have Medicare and Social Security. I would not bet my life on either of those being available when I retire. Medicare will certainly be rationed–in fact, already it is in a way because many providers are not accepting new medicare patients. I expect Social security benefits to be laughable at best, gone at worst.
Specific to California
Poverty was caused by over regulation and good welfare system.
Fortunately Califnornian poverty rate is lower than North Korea. Fortunately we are not a communist state yet.
North Korea has the total regulation on everything and their “vulnerable” population is protected perfectly. The problem is that 100% of their population is “vulnerable” now. Many of you guys are enjoying a better life than their #1 comrade Kim Jong Un.
Ironically, even North Korea is experiencing soaring income inequality now, probably due to sky high unemployment rate.
Why does not North Korea implement universal income to replace wages? That would achieve a much better income equality.
Also North Korea should confiscate savings of its citizens to achieve much better wealth equality.
And North Korea should kill all the corrupt officers to achieve much better political equality.
One of the causes of poverty could be a much higher than reported unemployment.
According to Lee, the rate of unemployment among North Koreans seeking work could range between 25-56 percent, much higher than North Koreans told U.N. researchers in 2008, Voice of America reported Thursday.
You guys got no pity spending so much money living. Want to live like royal family, sending kids to private education/ music class, staying in big square footage, 2+ continental cars, go on luxurious vacation, etc. Of course, not enough. Btw, rental in RWC is not $5k-$7k (I know the quoted number is not just rent).
A family of 3 (2 adults one kid) easily survive with a gross pre-tax of $165k.
I know my cost when I first arrived 16 years ago and now… no way not enough… have to be spending money like water.
Unfortunately there are times that the schooling your child needs is private. We’re actually lucky to be districted for one of the few high schools that have classes for mutlivariable calculus, Diff EQs, linear algebra, and discrete math on campus.
Every time I start looking around at public high schools, I find they max out at MVC.
What’s MVC?
Multivariable Calculus sorry.
Where do you get the public school carriculum? How do you know what courses each school would offer?
Does anyone ever use calculus. I took it for three years in high school and college. Who actually uses it at work?
When you go onto each schools’ website, they’ll either have a course listing under “Academics” or they’ll have parent or student tabs where you have to dig around and look for a course listing. Sometimes it can be buried. If you’re lucky, you’ll get a full course description guide with prereqs, UC approved Y/N, and semester/full.
Engineers…
(BTW: The question really gave me a laugh–I personally like theoretical math much more. I don’t think I’ll ever use Diff EQs)
Is foreign language course important? If a student takes no foreign language class, does it affect college admission?
Definitely. UC admissions require two years or level 4 ability.
Other schools have their own requirements.
If you are a bilingual family though, that will count for something. It’s not that you necessarily have to take the course, but that you are proficient. That’s my understanding–could be wrong.
For most of us, kindergarten maths is good enough. I doubt most SWEs use calculus much too.
Right. Physics simulations and order of growth. So unless you’re developing new algorithms or simulating airflow/bomb blasts/etc., I doubt you actually need it. But it’s still required by a lot of engineering/CS majors anyways.
In my structural engineering business we did math all day long. Never calculus. How many engineers on here use it at work now. My guess is zero
Instead of calculus schools should teach statistics. Orders of magnitude more useful.
http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/freshman/requirements/a-g-requirements/index.html
E) Language other than English
“Two years, or equivalent to the 2nd level of high school instruction, of the same language other than English are required. (Three years/3rd level of high school instruction recommended). Courses should emphasize speaking and understanding, and include instruction in grammar, vocabulary, reading, composition and culture. American Sign Language and classical languages, such as Latin and Greek, are acceptable. Courses taken in the seventh and eighth grades may be used to fulfill part or all of this requirement if the high school accepts them as equivalent to its own courses.”
