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I like to fantasize sometimes about having a giant house in Raleigh for the price of my one bedroom in SF. I just don’t know anyone moving from SF to Raleigh. The people I know are moving to Berkeley or the peninsula after they have kids.

It’d be nice if they had done data to back up their demographic trend other than just claiming it based on anecdotal stories.

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I went the other way, bringing my family from Raleigh to SF. There are tradeoffs, but its worth it overall for the cultural and natural amenities for the kids and for the chance to be in the heart of the tech industry.

I do sometimes think about moving back to have nicer housing, but our net income is much higher here despite the cost of living, so the option to “retire back” someday will probably always be there.

Curious, would you not prefer a modest house and early retirement or options to a giant house in another area? Maybe you can grab both right now, I don't know, but 3-400k can buy a house in extremely nice areas in flyover states, why not find a nice one, buy that and live relaxed?

> ...3-400k can buy a house in extremely nice areas in flyover states, why not find a nice one, buy that and live relaxed?

Although the general sentiment is agreeable, there's nothing relaxed about maintaining a $400k home. I like to think of it as a different class of stress that's decoupled from work that pays the bills.

We can disagree on this one, the amount of time a home takes for maintenance vs a 9-5 isn't a close call for me.

I just left SF for North Carolina. This is merely anecdata, but there are plenty of big city folk here with me, including from SF.

It's annecdata but I just had a coworker move from Alameda to NC. Combination of home prices and avoiding the miserable commutes. Probably mostly the later since they could have easily afforded to buy here and Alameda doesn't share SF's problems with schools and crime.

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