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300ish days of sunshine a year in Denver versus about half that in Seattle.
And cold as hell winter 5 months of the year.
Company offered permanent remote work, thought through career trade offs and whether we wanted to stay in the Bay Area forever. Picked suburbs between Denver and Boulder. Good tech jobs, similar sunshine and outdoor activities as the Bay Area (but with snow also! we’ll see how that goes), affordable housing and better COL.
Saugerties, NY (already moved). Close enough to Boston, NYC, Philly to make day trips if necessary. Cut cost of living by 50% over where I was. Employer has cut 75% of office space in NYC already, holding onto remainder as hot desk space.
You would have to be insane to move because you've recently been given remote work privileges, especially in the middle of a recession caused by an ongoing pandemic. Companies provide remote work options all the time and once you move they ask you to come back into the office out of the blue thenlay remote workers off if they cant come back into the office. The other thing you need to keep in mind is a lot of the pla…
>If you move and work remote be extremely careful, dont assume you're welcome anywhere in the countrh a lot of places are filled with backwards luddites who hate anyone in STEM fields. Yes, this is a real thing.
I've never experienced this, especially renting long term 3months + or airbnb for weeks-monthly.
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>thenlay remote workers off if they cant come back into the office.
Agreed, this is the IBM and Yahoo plan all over again.
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Serious question. Do you think they care about the hundreds of businesses, many LGBT owned, that were closed, destroyed, or extorted by the peaceful protestors of CHAZ/CHOP? About citizens who slog through miles of filth, shit on the sidewalks, and needles on the ground?
There is more to Washington than downtown Seattle.
I'm not newly remote as I made the move a little over 3 years ago. That said, I moved to Northern Georgia specifically to work remotely. I have an incredible (inexpensive) house that gets fiber internet, live in an inexpensive area, have luxuries pretty close (Apple store, Wholefoods, Tesla, etc), 45 min south of the mountains, live just off a lake and I'm only an hour outside of Atlanta. There are very few places in…
A little bit lonely, too. But, the cities are too expensive and everything is so compressed. Maybe if I could afford an actual house in a city that would be OK.