Yes have fun working your FAANG job, paying a giant chunk of your gross earnings to the state, and then sitting in traffic driving past homeless people IN THE SMOG for hours on the way to your tiny house each evening. Is it worth it? To me, unless my family was from the area I would never entertain going to such a place.
Not sure why you got downvoted (tone, perhaps) but I absolutely agree with you. I work for a large company, from home, in a medium-ish town in the midwest. I have no commute, but even when I worked for a different company in an actual office here in town, I only had a 15 minute commute one way. There’s no way I’d be willing to have a long commute by train or car just so I could live in a large city.
Yeah I figured my sarcasm might penalize me, but it’s how I really feel haha
You're right. Here in the exurbs where there's 6 lane highways and one way is completely clogged, I can see miles and miles of empty space where housing could've been built, had the zoning commission any common sense at all. It's just, employee's choices are very limited and you don't get to choose which companies are highering. Employees can say they want to leave the bay area/high COL areas all they want, doesn't mean employers have to do it.
To an extent I can see the reasoning here. I think more prohibitive though is that even though you're asking people to move to a lower CoL area, there is still some sticker shock when they see the lower salary. I can pretty confidently say there is a shortage of great talent where I live. It's nearly impossible to find any expert in native mobile development, Ruby, Go, or even Javascript. There are a lot of .NET guys here but having interviewed several hundred I can tell you quantity does not equal quality. I've been working in the same market for the last 12 years (since graduating college) and I can count on one hand the engineers from this city that I would want to hire if I started a development shop.
I absolutely agree with you. Imho there is no reason to live in a non-large city.