The barrier to move an hour and a half is less than moving across country, but it’s not insignificant. Your kids are changing school/school districts. You’re fi

The barrier to move an hour and a half is less than moving across country, but it’s not insignificant. Your kids are changing school/school districts. You’re finding a new church. Your friends who you met for dinner each Friday - not going to see them but once a month now. Your relatives that you invited over for dinner every Tuesday - you’ll see them on birthdays and the holidays. The distance is too far to comfortably commute for more than a year. I did roughly half that same commute for 2 years and it was mentally taxing. And no, the engineers who are working 80 hours a week aren’t “normal” people who are all of a sudden going to start working just 48 hours a week. Btw, the Intel engineers in Chandler aren’t the cause of Intel’s process woes. They’re world class. TSMC is hiring fresh new hires, from a generation that doesn’t yet know or celebrate hard work.