New grad anecdote: If not for Covid I'd be in Palo Alto right now. Instead I'm buying furniture to set up an office in my parents basement in Toronto. My sister

New grad anecdote: If not for Covid I'd be in Palo Alto right now. Instead I'm buying furniture to set up an office in my parents basement in Toronto. My sister and her fiance already grabbed the extra room on the first floor for the same thing (otherwise they'd be in two different cities with apartments). All three of us are sort of "just milling around waiting for the gates to open". Not literally, any of us could technically be in the city our workplace is in today (the border isn't closed to work related travel), but we are waiting to be required to show up in person at the office before we move (back). In the meantime we'd rather be here where we have lots of space, good company, no rent, and so on.