Mark Lenoebber wrote, imagine you're starting from scratch with no assets, income or skills.

In today's world, how would you go about building wealth?

Where would you choose to live and what specific steps would you take to achieve financial success?

This actually is a pretty easy one for me

because I feel like this was me.

I mean, I was, I had declared bankruptcy

in the year 2000 because I had a surgery that I couldn't pay for it was too expensive.

I got my car repossessed shortly thereafter.

So I had no money and I was like okay I need to figure out my I didn't come from a wealthy family I need to figure this out like how can I like you know

Chart a course for a better life and I immediately knew because I was into tech that I

need to be in the center of that arena and the only way to be in the center of that

arena is to say where is the highest density of

people that are in this profession so you know choose your own adventure here

you'll know where it is for whatever your profession might be for me that was San Francisco. So I had to move to

San Francisco. So I took any job I could to get enough money to move to

San Francisco. It wasn't I got a really low end well I worked to a startup

first got that had a kind of okay salary it was like 55K and then I actually had

to take a job for 38K year.

This is working as a production assistant at tech TV.

And I had to move into the sunset, which is for people that know San Francisco is kind of you

know way out there and I lived in someone's garage. They had a bad like made

made-up in-law unit that was just not really an in-law unit was not legal and they charged me

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