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Outside of Silicon Valley, it is possible to live close to the office without a FAANG level salary. Beverages and snacks also are not that rare.
by nix0n 5y ago
Outside of Silicon Valley, it is possible to live close to the office without a FAANG level salary. Beverages and snacks also are not that rare.
- c7DJTLrn 5y agoWell, you'd have to be outside of most big cities. Even on a tech salary, living near an office in central London isn't affordable. Not unless you're flat sharing which is basically mutually exclusive with having a family.
- snark42 5y agoIt's probably completely do-able in the US except in the top 20 or so COL locations - https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/region_rankings_current.jsp?region=019 https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/region_rankings_curren...
- beaconstudios 5y agoLondon is the only city in the UK where that's the case, and many boroughs are commutable - it's only really the centre that's a problem.
- amyjess 5y agoDallas is pretty fine. For a few years, I lived within a 10-15 minute drive to my office on a $60k salary. Inner-ring suburb and not downtown, but most of the offices here are in the inner-ring suburbs. (and if that sounds low, don't worry: I now make much more and work for a company that doesn't even have offices in my time zone)
- ghaff 5y agoA lot of tech industry jobs are also outside of big cities. (As are Google jobs in the Bay Area; the BA is just something of an outlier in that fairly conventional suburbia is still priced higher than just about anyplace else in the country.)
- scottiebarnes 5y agoGoogle cafeteria is pretty rare; delicious food free. https://www.seriouseats.com/lunch-at-google-insanely-awesome-as-you-thought https://www.seriouseats.com/lunch-at-google-insanely-awesome...