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You'd be surprised at how close to those salaries you can get in the exact same companies, just not in their main campuses. I work for one of those, from home,
by hibikir 10y ago
You'd be surprised at how close to those salaries you can get in the exact same companies, just not in their main campuses.
I work for one of those, from home, with the same salary as bay area coworkers, but a 200K 4 bedroom house.
There was a recent article here in HN about how Silicon Valley was hiring physicists. Oscar, the main name in that story, is a coworker of mine and he isn't working from the Bay area: he is working from Hawaii.
Living in San Francisco is a legitimate choice, but the whole idea that you have to go live there to get the good salaries and work at the good companies is less and less true every year.
- seanmcdirmid 10y agoIsn't Hawaii the only place that would be more expensive than the Bay Area besides maybe manhattan?
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- Domenic_S 10y ago> he is working from Hawaii ie, one of the only places more expensive than the bay area. Not sure what point this proves...
- aaronblohowiak 10y agoNot more expensive anymore
- froindt 10y agoEven Hawaii has a gradient of pricing. General cost of living is more expensive than most places on the mainland because almost everything has to be brought in on a ship, but outside of the major tourist cities prices are more manageable.
- prawn 10y agoI expect that the point is they're working remotely, not that they're working remotely from another expensive location.
- obstinate 10y agoIs Hawaii more expensive than the Bay? It looks like you can find some very reasonable stuff, right downtown in Honolulu, for less than $500k.
- Domenic_S 10y agoHousing is slightly cheaper, but food and utilities are substantially more. All-in -- especially if you're renting -- HI is more expensive than SF proper. http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/cost-of-living/ http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/cost-of-living/