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Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by stevehawk »

bluntfang wrote: post #8
blakesterz wrote: post #2

I'm not sure if this is a real site or not... but let's assume it is, what's the deal with "Stop waiting in line for brunch"? I get the commute and own your own home things, these seem like BIG deals in life. Is standing in life for brunch really the 3rd biggest problem with living in the Bay Area or is this an inside joke or something like that? Everything I know about living around there I've learned from HN and I…

There's a joke I like to make at Burning Man when I see lines for dumb shit: If I wanted to wait in line I would've went to San Fransisco.

having never been to burning man.. what are there lines for at burning man?

Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by nkrisc »

namdnay wrote: post #53
asdfman123 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another option is you can just find a job in Dallas or Atlanta or something. There's enough programming jobs in cities like that, the COL is relatively low, you can live in pretty much any part of town that suits your fancy, and they're probably much nicer to live in than you might imagine if you've never left the coasts. Personally if I were looking to move anywhere after leaving the bay I'd consider Raleigh or Nash…

I think it depends on each person. I briefly lived in Dallas, it's just way too ... flat? No sea, no mountains, no thanks :)

So all of the Midwest :)

Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by tempsy »

mdszy wrote: post #54
tempsy wrote: post #40

It's really hard to beat living and working in San Francisco. Having lived here a few years I find costs highly overstated for single people . e.g. some costs: Studio in Lower Haight (water + trash included): $2100/month Utilities: $50 Monthly Muni: $81 Groceries are no more expensive than anywhere else. Eating out is similar vs other cities I've been to, and if anything the quality of the food is better here at the…

I live in a medium sized city in Wisconsin (~100k population) and my costs are: - $850 for rent for a 2 bedroom 1200sqft apartment - ~$70 for utilities (i have free heat so it's less in the winter and more in the summer) and if i still had the car i previously had, my only expense would be gas (~$100/mo) and the minor maintenance it needed, which was less than $1000/yr (i tracked everything each year i had it). I bou…

It's certainly possible I've become numb to the idea of paying $2k+ a month in rent, but as far as I'm aware this is the cost of a typical 1 bedroom in LA or Seattle and cost of a smaller studio in NYC.

The difference is the salary you can command in SF is well above the difference in cost.

Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by nkrisc »

TheMagicHorsey wrote: post #36
jrochkind1 wrote: post #24

Weird. The splash page says: > help you find a job you love in a city you can afford But the "About", "For Companies" and "How it works" pages are pretty focused on remote work: > Companies are more ready than ever to utilize distributed workforces, and this is creating opportunities for workers everywhere to be part of the digital economy... MainStreet provides the community, communication, and career tools you need…

I think its crystal clear. They are making remote work easy for employees and employers, which enables you to work from cities other than coastal ones. Is that really such a hard thing to understand? I Think most people connect the dots. It doesn't need a mini blog post to explain.

Sure. But what's not clear is how, especially you read further about "Main Street offices" and "MainStreet member." It's not clear if they're just remote-focused recruiting agency or something else.

Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by muststopmyths »

Reason077 wrote: post #42
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Is standing in life for brunch really the 3rd biggest problem with living in the Bay Area It's not a problem. More another manufactured nuisance of the kind San Francisco seems to enjoy creating. New Yorkers have brunch later, brunch boozier and--broadly speaking--brunch with a reservation. San Franciscans (or at least my friends in San Francisco) eat brunch at the crack of dawn at establishments that prefer lines…

Having a line out the door also serves as a sort of free advertising for the restaurant. If people are willing to line up and wait for their brunch, it must be good, right?

Actually, I appreciate the places that don't take reservations for brunch. The number of prospective patrons is wildly out of proportion to the number of really good brunch spots. If they took reservations, you wouldn't be able to get in for a month to a place like Plow.

Instead, I can grab a coffee (or mimosa) while I stand outside chatting with my friends or wander around the neighborhood.

If you want convenience, there are plenty of places that take reservations or can take walk-ins immediately. Some of them are pretty damn good too.

Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by RomanPushkin »

kfk wrote: post #16

The idea is sound. There are a lot of amazing places in Italy where I am from. Some of these towns sell houses for few thousands. Just think about it. No traffic. No over-crowded restaurants. Your own property. Sun. Sea side. I think this is more an issue of community. Of course if you are the only remote worker in a place with aging population is not fun. But if some start up would be able to build a community of re…

> Some of these towns sell houses for few thousands

Name of the place or it didn't happen :)

Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by jdavis703 »

beauzero wrote: post #41

Atlanta for $ to cost of living/quality. Rural Alabama like Sylacauga (metro/eletric company fiber to your home) for "work from home". Both my wife and I work from home in rural Georgia (Carrollton)...$300k bought us 25 acres, a refurbished 2500 square feet farm house, 6 stall horse barn, 1/2 acre pond, and shop with concrete floor and electricity. There are options out there, lots of them.

My dad's side of the family is in Georgia. You couldn't pay me $300k to deal with the racism in rural Georgia. Yes not all people out there are bad, but there's enough I'd rather line elsewhere.

Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by BoorishBears »

rogy wrote: post #46
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Is standing in life for brunch really the 3rd biggest problem with living in the Bay Area It's not a problem. More another manufactured nuisance of the kind San Francisco seems to enjoy creating. New Yorkers have brunch later, brunch boozier and--broadly speaking--brunch with a reservation. San Franciscans (or at least my friends in San Francisco) eat brunch at the crack of dawn at establishments that prefer lines…

File London under this too, the majority of 'upper mid range' or 'cool' places to eat now are, turn up, sign up to waiting list, come back in 30mins-2hr

You could be in a smaller city and have next to no cool places, and have an even bigger line at those fewer cool places.

Then leave for the smaller, but still not short, line at Waffle House instead because it turns out no matter where you are, meal-time rushes are a thing...

Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by kfk »

RomanPushkin wrote: post #76
kfk wrote: post #16

The idea is sound. There are a lot of amazing places in Italy where I am from. Some of these towns sell houses for few thousands. Just think about it. No traffic. No over-crowded restaurants. Your own property. Sun. Sea side. I think this is more an issue of community. Of course if you are the only remote worker in a place with aging population is not fun. But if some start up would be able to build a community of re…

> Some of these towns sell houses for few thousands Name of the place or it didn't happen :)

Here you go: https://casea1euro.it/case-a-1-euro-in-sardegna-a-15-minuti-...

You buy the house for 1 euro but then you have to fix it. So I guess you have to invest few thousands.

Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by sharkmerry »

0xEFF wrote: post #43
i_am_nomad wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks, I never knew there was a name for this, though I've seen this kind of house all through the Peninsula - there are also a lot of them in the hills west of San Mateo. And, now that I think of it, Erlich Bachmann's house is one.

Likely intentional because Steve Jobs grew up in a similar home. https://www.eichlernetwork.com/article/jobs-likeler-no-eichl...

The link's headline that you posted says

"For the record: Steve Jobs wasn’t raised in an Eichler—but partner Steve Wozniak was."

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