The culture in the Bay Area seems to be to get people addicted to their employer as fundamental to their identity, not just the money it gives them. This may be

The culture in the Bay Area seems to be to get people addicted to their employer as fundamental to their identity, not just the money it gives them. This may be because SF doesn't have the level of services you get in NYC, but that's a cause/effect problem from lack of disposable income and lack of population density. For example, a Google employee that moved from elsewhere in the country to San Francisco, and takes the Google bus to Mountain View because they don't have a car has an absolutely terrifying dependency on Google that they would not have if they were freely spending their own money to get the same services.