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Some sympathy is in order because house pricing can definitely have a big impact on the amount of “choice” you have.

That's fair, but specifically we're talking about Apple's headquarters here -- most of the people involved are likely high earning engineers.

Not enough to buy the 3 million dollar homes in Cupertino

I'm pretty sure that their headquarters needs janitors, a landscape crew, and folks to fix small things. They probably have a cafeteria, too. They might be a lot of high earning engineers, but I'm guessing these folks are a sizable portion of the people working there.

They likely don't get paid well.

Heck, I'd be surprised if they are employed by apple instead of some contractor - meaning they likely get far poorer benefits than the folks that have a chance of affording stuff around there.

> I'm pretty sure that their headquarters needs janitors, a landscape crew, and folks to fix small things

This is an article about requiring in person attendance for people that are currently WFH -- which almost certainly does not include janitors or landscape crew, who cannot do their jobs remotely.

You can buy a townhome in the east bay with more than an hour commute each way for over a million dollars. That ought to tell you something about the housing prices. Unless you are rich, or you AND your spouse bring in the big bucks, it will be hard to find a decent and affordable house near Cupertino.

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