Joey, do you think you would adjust this for different circumstances—say, if living in a more expensive region, facing medical hardship, or having to support an elderly family member? For example, assuming you’re renting a room for $440 USD, rents in the Bay Area would be anywhere from 200% to 500% more. If for some reason you wound up here, would you take the price difference into account, or still try to go with the global average?
The global average number came after I had a sense of what our spending was. This was the number we felt we could both be comfortable and optimally effective at. If it was different circumstances we would have picked a different number.
Joey, do you think you would adjust this for different circumstances—say, if living in a more expensive region, facing medical hardship, or having to support an elderly family member? For example, assuming you’re renting a room for $440 USD, rents in the Bay Area would be anywhere from 200% to 500% more. If for some reason you wound up here, would you take the price difference into account, or still try to go with the global average?
The global average number came after I had a sense of what our spending was. This was the number we felt we could both be comfortable and optimally effective at. If it was different circumstances we would have picked a different number.