Anecdotal: I lived in Austin back in 2015-2017, moved to the Bay and worked for 3 years, then moved back to Austin as soon as the pandemic let me go remote. Rec

Anecdotal: I lived in Austin back in 2015-2017, moved to the Bay and worked for 3 years, then moved back to Austin as soon as the pandemic let me go remote. Recently transferred officially to a team in Austin so I can stay here forever, my TC is 3.5x what it was when I worked here back in 2017. I have one coworker who also did this. So this checks out with my small sample size.