As someone who moved from SF to suburbs elsewhere during the pandemic, I enjoy city life, but with the cost of housing there it just didn’t add up any more betw

As someone who moved from SF to suburbs elsewhere during the pandemic, I enjoy city life, but with the cost of housing there it just didn’t add up any more between reduced capacity to safely partake in the boons of a city thanks to covid and the reduced sense of safety and the stress that induces. If it cost somewhere between a third and a fourth as much as it did when I left and that cost remained relatively static, I would’ve probably stayed, but there’s no chance that would happen in reality and so I moved. If this were Tokyo we were speaking about rather than SF, the cost would be trivial to justify even in a remote work situation. The perks handily outweigh the downsides. I don’t mind paying but the quality of the experience needs to meet a certain bar for the price to make sense.