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This has happened to me. Ended up working for a very scary company because they were the only local option that came close to matching my bay area salary. Moved
by nkingsy 6y ago
This has happened to me. Ended up working for a very scary company because they were the only local option that came close to matching my bay area salary. Moved back to the Bay Area less than a year later.
Lesson learned, I won’t be moving again without a relocation package
- justinclift 6y ago> very scary company What did they do?
- lumost 6y agoThis has always been my big concern with leaving a major tech city ( even to go to the suburbs ). your opportunities shrink. I'd be curious if this will change as more companies offer full-time remote.
- ghaff 6y agoSilicon Valley (mostly) is "the suburbs." Although there are more tech jobs in downtowns than there used to be, in a lot of areas most of the tech jobs are in suburbs/exurbs.
- lumost 6y agoIt's a bit different here on the East Coast. While there are plenty of options in the suburbs - the number within an individuals commuting radius drops.
- ghaff 6y agoThere are a lot of pretty bad commutes in SV too. I live (well) outside of Boston. About 20 years ago, there wasn't a single real tech employer in the city. That's changed primarily with Kendall and the Seaport. But there's still a huge amount in Metrowest and some in the northern suburbs going up to southern NH. I've been lucky that through several jobs I've never had a really bad commute except into Boston for a time--but I didn't have to do it every day and there is a commuter rail.