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I haven't been to Silicon Valley in ~15 years, is living in outer suburbs and commuting not an option? Here in Seattle, you can live in the outer suburbs and pretty easily get to Seattle. I'm not crazy about my 45-60 minute commute, but I like not paying Seattle-sized rent.

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Commuting 45-60 min a day is a waste of your life. I'd rather pay double the rent to live close to where I work than throw away two hours a day.

45-60 minutes away from San Francisco (I'd argue that's the epicenter of SV today), with traffic, might get you to Oakland or somewhere in the peninsula (not even close to San Jose). The rents there are also ridiculously high, although slightly better than San Francisco.

To actually live in cities further away you'd need to drive at least 90 minutes, and realistically 2 hours - each way.

No you can't you liar. Seattle is the worst city on the planet. You will live in a crime riddled suburb and pay outrageous rents with awful commutes.

Don't come to Seattle. Stay in wonderful sunny california. It's so much better than Seattle.

;)

I'm probably gonna end up moving out of Seattle because of the rent. It's affordable on my salary, but I want to start really saving up so I can have more freedom.

I commute to San Francisco every day - 15 min drive to BART then an hour on BART. About as far as you could expect a reasonable person to love.

It costs me $300/month to pay for commute and parking, and a 2 BR apartment runs us $2500/month. It's a nicer area (for wife/daughter) but it doesn't really get far below $2,000 in even the worst areas, and that commute wears on you.

When I worked remotely for a bay area startup and did some hypothetical apartment shopping, there was no amount of rent saved that came close to being worth the commute time. It was a min-max problem with no optimum. Live close and take a significant lifestyle hit, live far and give up time for any sort of lifestyle. I chose instead to live remote and take a work-interaction situation hit which ultimately led to leaving that position. Oh well, such is life.

Quality of life is paramount. Jobs come, jobs go.

Roommates?

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