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The commute angle of the remote work argument always seemed weird to me. If you work at a FAANG you can afford to live anywhere, including in places that would
by twblalock 4y ago
The commute angle of the remote work argument always seemed weird to me. If you work at a FAANG you can afford to live anywhere, including in places that would give you a short commute to work.
I feel sorry for people in the service industry who have hour-long commutes because they can't afford to live closer. But that is not the case for tech workers.
- whateveracct 4y agoTo be fair, I had a 15-20 minute walking commute. But that adds on 30-40 minutes to an 8+ hour workday. Also, you can start bean counting and consider the costs of housing with a short commute vs the longer commute and realize that the market knows what it's doing and it becomes a wash comp-wise.
- QIYGT 4y ago> If you work at a FAANG you can afford to live anywhere, including in places that would give you a short commute to work. Not necessarily. If you're an E4 with kids, good luck paying $150k a year for a 3br apartment in walking distance of Facebook's NYC office.
- ryandrake 4y ago> If you work at a FAANG you can afford to live anywhere, including in places that would give you a short commute to work I think this is an exaggeration. Not everyone who works at FAANG companies is making $300K+/yr or whatever the current figure being quoted is, although senior people probably are. For rank-and-file employees, even engineers, your choices "within walking distance" of a FAANG office typically are: 1. A tiny apartment or townhome, 2. A larger townhome with roommates, or 3. Unaffordable. Numbers 1 and 2 are fine I guess if you're young and don't have kids, but I'm not willing to move my family into a sardine can in Mountain View or Cupertino. So yea, you can afford to live almost anywhere, but only if you adjust your lifestyle drastically.