I had an offer from an extremely famous Silicon Valley company, did the numbers very carefully, and realized that I simply could not afford to live there on wha

I had an offer from an extremely famous Silicon Valley company, did the numbers very carefully, and realized that I simply could not afford to live there on what they were offering. (I have kids and a non-working spouse.) I don't think of myself as being a particularly greedy or spendthrift person. I've never owned a new car, for example, and I'm typing this on a five year old laptop. But the Bay Area is simply a no-go for me, sad as that makes me feel.