Hearing about the challenges of raising kiddos in the Bay is also refreshing to me. I've a lot of friends that would love to have kiddos, but the costs and 'has

Hearing about the challenges of raising kiddos in the Bay is also refreshing to me. I've a lot of friends that would love to have kiddos, but the costs and 'hassle' of child-rearing in the Bay are just too much. Kids are hard enough without 2 hours of commuting per day. Also, though the article is focused on tech workers, the Bay actually does have other inhabitants. I went out for an interview for a biotech position on the Peninsula recently. Overall, it went well and they offered me $60k. My jaw, of course, needed to be picked off the floor. When I mentioned that, per CA state law, even auto-mechanics make that without a HS degree in their city, let alone the BS/MS/PhD that they required for the position, the company said "well, that's the going rate". I asked if they had hook-ups/dump-points for the RV I would be inhabiting in the parking lot. The req. is still open all these months later. Tech, and Prop 13, have severely distorted the CA property market to near total dysfunction for proper societal functioning.