From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Dec 5 1:29:55 2000 From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 5 01:29:52 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B72E237B402; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 01:29:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id eB59TUH71594 ; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 10:29:30 +0100 (CET) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id KAA62119 ; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 10:29:36 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 10:29:36 +0100 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Terry Lambert Cc: keichii@peorth.iteration.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, bp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing freebsd from windows nt without using boot disks Message-ID: <20001205102935.A61625@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20001203195226.A53011@peorth.iteration.net> <200012050020.RAA13022@usr02.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200012050020.RAA13022@usr02.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 12:20:31AM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: Rahul.Siddharthan@lpt.ens.fr Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert said on Dec 5, 2000 at 00:20:31: > No offense taken. > > FWIW: Much consulting is done at the $150/hour level in the US, > particularly in Silicon Valley. > > You would be hard pressed to purchase a home in the Silicon > Valley area, with a bedroom and yard for a kid, and in a good > school district, for less than $1 million. > > After taxes, $150/hour comes to about $68/hour (state + federal > come to ~55%). > > That ~14 years of work, assuming a 7% interest home loan, and > your entire paycheck going to nothing but mortgage payements, > with 0% property taxes, no home owner fees, and no maintenance > costs (basically, it assumes both you and your wife getting > about the same income for that period). > > Why, what does it cost for a 3 bedroom, 10 year old house in a > good school district in India? Depends in which city. In Bangalore (India's "software capital" many call it) or Madras I think one can rent such a place, well located and well furnished, for under $500 a month; buying it may cost perhaps $50000. It would be much more expensive in Bombay (if it's possible at all) and it would be much cheaper in smaller towns. In big cities too, you can get more modest accommodation for much less than that. But everything's much cheaper in India; correspondingly the salaries are lower too. As a student there I used to get around $120 a month and that was quite enough to live on comfortably (student lifestyle). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message