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I’m sure you have some very good reasons for explicitly stating that moving closer to work is not an option, but I’m really dying to know why you’re trapped in
by Eric_WVGG 10y ago
I’m sure you have some very good reasons for explicitly stating that moving closer to work is not an option, but I’m really dying to know why you’re trapped in such a miserable circumstance.
- twblalock 10y agoYeah, this seems odd to me, considering that a reasonably successful software engineer can afford to live pretty much anywhere.
- Decade 10y agoHaha, no. I support the YIMBY movement as a matter of infringed liberty, but we need it so successful software engineers (as well as everybody else) can afford to live near their jobs. http://idiosyncraticwhisk.blogspot.com/2015/11/housing-series-part-77-housing-is.html http://idiosyncraticwhisk.blogspot.com/2015/11/housing-serie... http://www.sfyimby.org http://www.sfyimby.org
- m3talridl3y 10y agoNot in the Bay Area. Every developer or ops person I know either has roommates or has a similar 1.5-hour commute.
- twblalock 10y agoI live in the Bay Area too, and I only know one or two people in the tech industry who have that kind of commute. Many of my coworkers rent their own apartments without roommates.