Commute depends on where you live and where you work, obviously. There's a lot of public transportation and its a pretty good system. Almost impossible to end u

Commute depends on where you live and where you work, obviously. There's a lot of public transportation and its a pretty good system. Almost impossible to end up with a commute that takes more than 1 hour. My commute is about 45 minutes and I'm going Brooklyn (Park Slope) to Manhattan (Flatiron district). Rent is high pretty much everywhere. You're in the Bay Area though so you already know about insane rents. New York is in the same insanely too high range as San Francisco. However, NY based jobs usually pay a bit more to help compensate for the high cost of living. There's a burgeoning tech scene here. The so-called "Silicon Alley" runs along Broadway between Soho all the way up Flatiron. Its not as large of a community as in San Francisco but its pretty well established at this point. Many of the tech companies in New York are doing web based services that are linked in some way to one of New York's other major industries (real estate, media, advertising/marketing, finance).