I lived this out a few years ago when I had (great) offers in hand from TechCo in the Bay Area and FinCo in NYC. Running the numbers, the former was simply imp

I lived this out a few years ago when I had (great) offers in hand from TechCo in the Bay Area and FinCo in NYC. Running the numbers, the former was simply impossible without a four-hour daily commute, whereas the latter worked pretty well with a commute half that long.