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The key is to work remotely for a SV company but live in a cheap small town (this is a humblebrag). Higher salary, no Valley real estate madness, no freeway nig
by cgh 9y ago
The key is to work remotely for a SV company but live in a cheap small town (this is a humblebrag). Higher salary, no Valley real estate madness, no freeway nightmares, placid country bumpkin existence preserved. I do have to bite the bullet and travel down to that blighted land a few times a year though.
- up_and_up 9y agoI would say work remotely for a company in an expensive place but live in a cheap small town. This has worked out very well for me and my family. All the companies I have worked for were remote-first etc so I never felt like a second class citizen.
- Taniwha 9y agoYup, works well for me too
- lj3 9y agoYes, but then you have to deal with the SV company. No amount of money is worth dealing with most of those companies.
- nnd 9y agoHow would you find a SV company open to remote workers? I haven't heard of any.
- cgh 9y agoBigger companies often have good remote work policies. On the downside, these companies are rarely cool by the usual HN metrics and aren't normally mentioned here except dismissively.
- mitochondrion 9y agoThat sounds perfect. Is it too much to ask for three company names to start me off in looking?
- bzbarsky 9y agoMozilla is an "SV company", sort of, and open to remote workers.
- nnd 9y agoFrom their careers site: "Mozilla is a global organization, and this role is available in our offices in the European Union, U.S., Canada, or home-based in the U.S., Canada, and European countries where Mozilla has a legal entity. You must have work authorization in one of these countries." This is not remote work.
- bzbarsky 9y agoI'm not sure how "home-based" is not "remote". Yes, there are restrictions on possible countries where the employee lives, to do with legal bits like payroll taxes and whatnot.