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My family does it for a living, going back a few generations. You can choose to live and work in the city, but what most of my ancestors did was buy a house on

My family does it for a living, going back a few generations. You can choose to live and work in the city, but what most of my ancestors did was buy a house on the outskirts of a relatively wealthy suburban area, like you find around almost any city. Once the houses get far enough away that you can't reasonably commute to downtown they become more affordable. You can find a sweet spot where it is reasonable to drive to the houses of the people who commute into the city, but not to do so yourself. Then your charging city rates and paying country prices. Next best thing to working remotely.

alistairSH 4y ago
But that same argument (live further out than work to save on housing) applies to most jobs. Here in DC, teachers earn more the closer to the city they work and typically live further out than they work to save on housing. Software is a bit of an anomaly here - some of the best paying jobs are out on the edge of the suburbs because that’s where AOL and Network Solutions and several other “OG” dot-coms were started. And AWS, Google, and others have since opened offices nearby.