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Idk about your job but my job would is willing to pay me a bonus to leave SF and will only cut my salary by 10%. Definitely seems worth it to me. Especially factoring in not needing to pay cali income or sales tax.

The bay areas has never been nice in the last 5 years. I can live in a more comfortable house where I don’t have to work 3ft from where I sleep in almost any other city.

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“The Bay Area has never been nice in the past 5 years”,

Sigh. I guess the grass is always greener on the other side

>job would is willing to pay me a bonus to leave SF and will only cut my salary by 10%.

How many years worth of a cut salary would the bonus be? I might be missing something (if you are factoring the tax differences I get it).

You should also be factoring in the cost of living difference to really figure out if there's a real loss

> How many years worth of a cut salary would the bonus be?

Who gives a shit? You’re still making good money. What’s your life worth?

Taking this comment on good faith, I'm just asking for my own edification. I've lived in Seattle, downtown adjacent, for 10+ years, and really love it, even with COVID, outside of the few weeks where we've had bad smoke. Obviously if half the year is going to be like this, I'm leaving regardless of the salary ramifications, but if we are talking a week or so every couple years, it might be a different story. I moved to Seattle to escape other problematic issues where I used to live, and I suspect the same is true for lots of folks.

$5k bonus and I have to stay at the company for a year. If I moved to Seattle (0% income tax), I would not have a pay cut and I would no longer need to pay California's 9.4%. Easy raise and bonus :).

Similar story for Orlando, but with a 10% cut. 10% pay cut and saving 9.3% in income and ~1.3% sales tax. Housing would be about $500/mo cheaper ($6k/yr) and way more comfortable to work from.

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