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I’ve worked in tech in the Bay for over a decade and met a handful of people with that insane of a commute. It’s not normal.
by spacemadness 2y ago
I’ve worked in tech in the Bay for over a decade and met a handful of people with that insane of a commute. It’s not normal.
- worstspotgain 2y agoThat's because having children in SF is not "normal," a huge fraction of new workers are single male tech workers. SF is the city with the fewest children per capita in the country, Daly City is #6. https://www.aaastateofplay.com/the-u-s-cities-with-the-most-and-fewest-children/ https://www.aaastateofplay.com/the-u-s-cities-with-the-most-...
- spacemadness 2y agoPlenty of my colleagues have had kids.
- worstspotgain 2y agoWell, OK, there are ways for a young tech family to avoid the 2+ hour commute: - Be extremely well paid, and don't mind buying a $1.5m house that would go for $500K in, say, Pittsburg CA. - Squeeze into an apartment. - Buy near one BART station and find a job near another, e.g. if you buy right next to the Pittsburg station and work at Uber HQ it's 1 hour each way. This mostly rules out Apple, Meta, Google, etc. Another way of course is if your colleagues bought homes at around the time of the market lows, but that was ~15 years ago, so they would not be young families.
- linotype 2y agoWith hours like that, do they really though? Or did they just procreate?