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MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area
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Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
Or you could, you know, make breakfast for your friends. I don’t really get the brunch lines thing. Most of the food is pretty easily made in even a minimal kitchen. (And bread can be bought the day before.)
I'm guessing people in tiny apartments may not be able or willing to deal with a bunch of friends crowding it in the morning. Or maybe they don't live near each other, so they'd rather brunch near the office. Or would rather brunch during a work pause, rather than before getting to the office.
Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area
#123Atlanta 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.
No laws against non compete, parental leave, sick leave, fewer protections for laborers overall are a dealbreaker for me in the quality of life aspect.
Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area
#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not a problem here.
Seriously. Name the last time you went to brunch. Now name the last time you were so upset at a brunch line that it inspired you to bitch about it online, let alone make it a part of your job-sites pitch...
It's also just volume of spots, and walkability/ease of transport between them. I made a mistake and tried to get brunch at 11am in Bushwick recently, the place didn't open till noon. I walked a few minutes and just got it somewhere else.
By 1pm there was a wait, but for the first three hours that spot is open, no big deal at all.
Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area
#125Let’s be honest, $10k is chump change for engineers pulling $400k. If you want people to move, how about offer $400k ?
I doubt there are more than a few hundred engineers with that salary in the entire Bay Area and they aren’t the ones who complain about cost of living.
This is the software engineer making $80,000 a year who tries to live alone and has to spend half their paycheck on a studio.
Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area
#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I don’t know about Italy but in the US fixing up an old house in bad condition can be extremely expensive and time consuming. Cheaper to buy empty land and build a new one.
A significant portion of homeowners do a significant portion of the work themselves. I wouldn't say it's expected that you'll DIY everything but someone buying a house that needs substantial work without the intention of doing at least some of it themselves would certainly raise eyebrows.
Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area
#127Atlanta 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 first thought about Rural Alabama is how much I'd hate that sociopolitical environment (I'm black) Granted I googled Sylacauga and the first line on their website is >Sylacauga (syl-a-cau-ga) is a progressive community where all the pieces fit. So they're aware of the image which is a pretty good sign... But I'm not doing these cities/towns that are "progressive" oases in vast deserts of backwards communities ever…
Much of rural Alabama, especially through the central and southwestern parts of the state are majority black with most local governments and social institutions dominated by the local majority population. The real big problems in those areas are poverty and medical care. Even if you're well off, living in an impoverished community does negatively impact your quality of life. And you really don't want to have a medical emergency out there. The medical facilities can be few and far between with middling quality.
Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area
#128I moved to Boston about 18 months ago, and while it's not as crazy out here as it is in the Bay, I really don't think I want to spend the next ten years with a 3 hour daily commute, living in a house that costs four times as much, for half the square footage, as the one I had in rural New York.
A 1.5 hour commute is pretty unusual, how did you end up in that situation?
Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area
#129The main reason why we remain in a high cost area (North-central NJ) is opportunities. Yeah I work remotely now and have for awhile, and I doubt I will leave my current company any time soon... but things change, and I would hate to relocate to an idyllic rural paradise (I grew up in very small towns), lose this job and be unable to find another remote gig. At least in the NYC area I know there is going to be _something_ available within commute distance if I have to do that again.
Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area
#130From the contact details: 105 North 1st Street #28, San Jose, CA 95113 I'm certainly not an expert, but Wikipedia claims that's in the Bay Area... Are they paying their own team to quit?
I was surprised to see that too. They aren’t walking the walk.
Extra cynicism: by getting others to leave, they can stay and it gets better for them.