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I’m sure you have some very good reasons for explicitly stating that moving closer to work is not an option, but I’m really dying to know why you’re trapped in such a miserable circumstance.

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Yeah, this seems odd to me, considering that a reasonably successful software engineer can afford to live pretty much anywhere.

Haha, no. I support the YIMBY movement as a matter of infringed liberty, but we need it so successful software engineers (as well as everybody else) can afford to live near their jobs.

http://idiosyncraticwhisk.blogspot.com/2015/11/housing-serie...

http://www.sfyimby.org

Not in the Bay Area. Every developer or ops person I know either has roommates or has a similar 1.5-hour commute.

I live in the Bay Area too, and I only know one or two people in the tech industry who have that kind of commute. Many of my coworkers rent their own apartments without roommates.

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