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		paulhauggis on Sept 9, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Employees Secretly Live on Campus to Avoid ... If you are a Google engineer, you can afford to rent an apartment. Living out of your car/van making that kind of money is silly.

TeMPOraL on Sept 9, 2014 [–]

The original comments suggested that those Googlers were saving money to buy things like a house, etc. It's a very pragmatic attitude from my POV. Earning a lot of money only to spend most of it on housing anyway seems kind of defeating the whole purpose of earning a lot of money.

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