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Why would it be a benefit?
by setpatchaddress 6y ago
Why would it be a benefit?
- tshaddox 6y agoBecause you don’t have to cram 2 new desks into the expensive 1 bedroom apartment you share with your partner.
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- yao420 6y agoWell that’s offset by the fact you no longer have to get a small one bedroom near a large city downtown. Without the commute suburbs or smaller cities offer much bigger and better spaces for less. Why pay $4.5k for that one bedroom in SOMA when you can get a 4 bedroom home in Sacramento for the same price.
- samr71 6y agoI can't help but feel that this is going backwards. Cities are effective engines for value generation. Being in a city is valuable due to network effects, density, and overall efficiency that suburbs lack. Increased urbanization has gone hand-in-hand with increased prosperity for centuries. People don't pay $4.5k for a one bedroom in SOMA (just) to be close to the office. It's too early too say if the historic value of cities will be replaced by the internet, IMO. YC makes each batch move to SV for a reason.
- ghaff 6y agoSV isn't a city; it's mostly suburban sprawl. In most metro areas, you can get to reasonable property prices while still being in the gravitational well of a city even if you wouldn't want to commute into the downtown every day day.
- tshaddox 6y agoWhat if I live somewhere for other reasons? Anyway, it doesn’t really matter how expensive or big my home is, switching to work-from-home means I have less of that home available to me.
- meowster 6y agoThe worker can escape screaming kids, nagging spouse, etc.
- BurningFrog 6y agoYou're given a space to work in!