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I have a daughter and a baby boy on the way. A few years ago we moved to a suburb (a ferry ride away and then some, not Bainbridge) of Seattle, and I'm glad we

by hbosch 6y ago

I have a daughter and a baby boy on the way. A few years ago we moved to a suburb (a ferry ride away and then some, not Bainbridge) of Seattle, and I'm glad we did. The commute is pretty long when I have to go into the office, but thanks(?) to COVID my employer now has a true WFH-friendly infrastructure and a management team that no longer fears remote productivity. I love gardening and walking down to a relatively quiet waterfront, my little downtown, and seeing my kids run around in the yard safely knowing we are far from the burning cop cars of Seattle just a few weeks ago. Living in Queen Anne isn't much different, it's just 10x more expensive and you have a couple more restaurants. We manage just fine.

zhdc1 6y ago
This COVID-19 induced remote work experiment has really been interesting. One of the unexpected outcomes of the IT/software revolution was just how much industry centralization (e.g., Silicon Valley, Seattle, and later San Francisco/Shanghai/Paris/etc...) impacted competitiveness & employee wages. It should have been the opposite - the diffusion of communication infrastructure (and information in general) should have made it easier for companies to outsource work to cheaper locations. This turned out to not be the case, at least in software, for a number of reasons - one of the main ones being that high performing employees on the whole prefer living in and around convenient urban locations. Now that everyone has had a taste of remote work, it will be interesting to see if this trend reverses.