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The key is to work remotely for a SV company but live in a cheap small town (this is a humblebrag). Higher salary, no Valley real estate madness, no freeway nightmares, placid country bumpkin existence preserved. I do have to bite the bullet and travel down to that blighted land a few times a year though.

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I would say work remotely for a company in an expensive place but live in a cheap small town. This has worked out very well for me and my family. All the companies I have worked for were remote-first etc so I never felt like a second class citizen.

Yes, but then you have to deal with the SV company. No amount of money is worth dealing with most of those companies.

Hundreds of thousands of employees would disagree with you.

I used to work there. You'd be surprised how many grow to hate it.

How would you find a SV company open to remote workers? I haven't heard of any.

Bigger companies often have good remote work policies. On the downside, these companies are rarely cool by the usual HN metrics and aren't normally mentioned here except dismissively.

That sounds perfect. Is it too much to ask for three company names to start me off in looking?

Mozilla is an "SV company", sort of, and open to remote workers.

From their careers site:

"Mozilla is a global organization, and this role is available in our offices in the European Union, U.S., Canada, or home-based in the U.S., Canada, and European countries where Mozilla has a legal entity. You must have work authorization in one of these countries."

This is not remote work.

I'm not sure how "home-based" is not "remote". Yes, there are restrictions on possible countries where the employee lives, to do with legal bits like payroll taxes and whatnot.

Yup, works well for me too

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