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I’ve been in the Bay Area for 4 months and have enjoyed it, however I’ll go back to Europe in the next few years. You can get similar salaries if you find remote jobs out here or contract in London so the main reason should be for the lifestyle, not the work. If it helps I’m paying literally 7x more for my apartment than I did in England while my salary is fairly similar lol. It’s all fun though.

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That seems like a very unusual financial situation. Paying that much more for an apartment probably means you weren’t in London before, and then it would be extremely odd to make the same in the Bay Area as non-London UK.

Haha yeah - my flat was in Oxford and heavily subsidized so £350pm and it’s now $3k plus bills. I’ve worked remotely for the last few years so always been on six figure rates.

Cool! I used to live in London and was contracting quite a bit but then decided to move to Sweden with a remote job. But wow 7x more for your apartment! And here I thought my London rent was sky-high...

Rent in London is high but little compared to the other international cities. My experience working for international companies is that a flat that goes for £2000 for me in London can go for $5000 for a coworker in NYC (maybe less now after the pandemic).

A factor of 7 is entirely believable for England (non London) and most of the EU.

That's still high. In Barcelona you can find a city center flat for 1000€/month

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