Ask HN: Job offer in SFyes? no?
Got a statistician offer at a small startup in the San Francisco area (san ramon) and wanted your thoughts on cost of living and other factors. For those who moved there from the midwest, was it worth it.
Rent is a half to a third of what it is in any of the above areas.
Everything will cost way more than expected.
The VC "culture" (and I use that term very loosely) is going to pop when investors get tired of disruptive washing machine sharing apps and that entire area is just going to be an expensive wasteland. If you have a job currently avoid the bay area like the plague it is. Any major "tech town" is going to have similar issues but SF is the nexus of the problem