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The housing costs of some second/third/worse tier city are almost completely meaningless. Unless the job gave me a 10 year contract with a golden parachute or s
by cagenut 7y ago
The housing costs of some second/third/worse tier city are almost completely meaningless. Unless the job gave me a 10 year contract with a golden parachute or something. It doesn't matter if you can make the numbers work once, what matters is that you will almost certainly job hop 3 - 5 times, so you need to be in an area dense with employers to make that viable without having to move your life/family every time. Even if you never wind up changing jobs, the fact that you could matters, you're not completely fucked if things go south with one company. They don't own you (as much).
- perl4ever 7y agoIt seems to me that you're coming from a perspective where you don't have any roots at the time of your first job. I think it might be good to step back and realize while that may describe a lot of people who go off to college some place and then take a job anywhere, surely there are millions for whom it's not true. And 5-10 years in, if you are unmarried and change your mind, you can't necessarily make it work then for a number of reasons, including that in a hot tech area, you're already old and therefore useless.
- dbcurtis 7y agoWinner, winner, chicken dinner. That goes twice if your significant other also has a similar career trajectory.
- chrisfrantz 7y agoThis statement could be made in a job where remote work doesn’t exist, but thankfully it does. There’s more than enough work out there.
- jayd16 7y agoThen why is the article talking about where the jobs should be? If this was actually a reality then this post wouldn't exist.
- jayd16 7y agoExactly. Who wants to live in a company town? I don't.
- buboard 7y agoisn't SF a company town?
- jefftk 7y agoA company town is one where there's only one major employer. Things may be good for you if you work for that employer, but they have an enormous amount of leverage over you and their other employees. It's also risky long term, because the town's outcomes are tied strongly not just to one industry but one employer.