“According to a new survey by Blind, the anonymous community app for the workplace, 58% of tech workers in Silicon Valley and the tech hub in the Washington state claim that they have to delay having a family due to the high cost of living,” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple. “Apple employees were recorded as the highest in tech land to agree with that question on the survey.”
“Apple has the highest percentage of employees who say they have delayed starting a family due to high cost of living (69.11 percent) while Oracle has the least (44.94 percent),” Purcher reports.
“The report claims that buying a home and raising a family in the Bay Area is completely out of reach for many residents,” Purcher reports. “Even tech workers earning large salaries at Google or Apple are struggling to build roots in the area.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Interesting, but not surprising.
So it’s a premium place to live at premium prices for premium customers? How appropriate.
Well said. The shoe is now on the other foot …
Honestly, It takes very little to make a kid,
I made two,,, I usually find that you can make them out of things that are just lying around the house……..
There’s no app for that.
Well with the way they’re naming the iPhones these days, maybe we should all be thankful….
In other news, many thousands of couples are delaying buying a iPhones so they can start a family.