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You can easily find big tech jobs in Seattle, Austin, NY, Denver, Los Angeles, etc etc. Actions speak louder than words, so no, they are not telling me they wa

• tekknik 3y ago
  That $1.2 mil figure wasn’t any of those cities, nor was it from SF. You seem to be detached from reality. And btw, I spent a large portion of my life living out of a rack on a warship so don’t talk to me about compromise kiddo.
• closeparen 3y ago
  Moving to New York or Los Angeles for affordable housing is ridiculous on its face. Austin, Denver, and I would add Miami were basically flash-in-the-pan situations: first movers got some great deals, but the housing markets have priced it in by now & the forward-looking job market outlooks are uncertain. Seattle is interesting in that it's clearly a durable tech job center and is meaningfully cheaper than San Francisco. It's still twice as expensive as a normal place ($862k vs. $400k) and its street conditions reflect a housing crisis every bit as severe as San Francisco's, but it's true that you could keep your career while paying ~30% less there. So I guess the delta between SF and SEA could be interpreted as a lifestyle splurge.