> if you don't have to live near a FAANG the money you do make can go much farther I have a friend who moved to the Utah/Idaho region, giving up a FAANG job, i

> if you don't have to live near a FAANG the money you do make can go much farther I have a friend who moved to the Utah/Idaho region, giving up a FAANG job, in order to escape the spiraling cost of living where the FAANG jobs are. I respect that. I'm at my third FAANG living in one of the high-cost-of-living areas of the U.S. In the meantime I'm planning my escape. So long as income vastly outstrips my cost of living, I'm going to keep my FAANG and save like there's no tomorrow, and as soon as the math works out that I can maintain my current quality of life with a combination of a lower-paying job combined with interest on my savings (the proverbial 4% withdrawal rate) in a lower-cost-of-living area of the U.S., I'm out. Er, yeah, less effective application of that figure of speech. You know what I mean.