I just moved to Oakland (Lakeside area) from Tennessee, and it was purely voluntary. My job is remote-first, but the office is in SF. I'd been working remotely

I just moved to Oakland (Lakeside area) from Tennessee, and it was purely voluntary. My job is remote-first, but the office is in SF. I'd been working remotely for the last 4 years in TN, and I was sick of it. Now I'm really enjoying life in Oakland and the Bay Area. Locals keep telling me it's a shell of what it was pre-pandemic, but the pandemic is (hopefully) a temporary state. It will be interesting to see where things go when everything normalizes again.