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Depending on your field, pay. Where else do software engineers make around 200k?
That number is completely meaningless, as it does not include cost of living. Especially health insurance and lack thereof
It's definitely not meaningless.
You can take 200,000 for a few years, and go back and ruin your old local housing market.
That said - this comment aged like milk. CS is not a great career to be in rn thanks to AI