That’s insane. 13 hours of work + commute. After 7 hours of sleep you only have 4 hours left in your day for literally everything else.
5 hours round trip commuting a day is giving up over half of your prerogative time to simply shuffling from one place to another.
The Bay Area is lucrative monetarily and all, but there's just no world where that's worth it for me.
https://www.aaastateofplay.com/the-u-s-cities-with-the-most-...
- Be extremely well paid, and don't mind buying a $1.5m house that would go for $500K in, say, Pittsburg CA.
- Squeeze into an apartment.
- Buy near one BART station and find a job near another, e.g. if you buy right next to the Pittsburg station and work at Uber HQ it's 1 hour each way. This mostly rules out Apple, Meta, Google, etc.
Another way of course is if your colleagues bought homes at around the time of the market lows, but that was ~15 years ago, so they would not be young families.
... what?