Huge impact. Housing costs put a floor on acceptable salaries. Even if you go way out to San Jose or beyond, the housing costs and resulting monthly mortgage

Huge impact. Housing costs put a floor on acceptable salaries. Even if you go way out to San Jose or beyond, the housing costs and resulting monthly mortgage makes pushes minimum salaries into mid-150s for the most meager of family accommodations. I haven't moved from NYC to SF/SV for that singular reason.