Is it possible to work in public accounting and survive San Francisco bay area?

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It's possible, but it might not be pleasant depending on your situation, tolerance for roommates, and tolerance of long commutes. If you have a working SO living with you and no kids it's not too bad but it would be difficult to live by yourself or support anyone. I'd say you could probably afford to live by yourself semi-comfortably around manager, or have kids semi-comfortably if you make partner or earlier depending on your SO's job.

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Define survive please

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^ Make enough money just to be broke

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I manage to survive and even save but I live with roommates who are generous enough to not charge me a lot and I'm not someone looking for new places to go out every week. In fact, I stay home every weekend and don't own a car.

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man, that's rough!

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You can survive. But the quality of life will suck unless your senior manager or partner or have rich spouse

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FB never ceases to make me laugh - make enough money just to be broke aka you won't make enough money.

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