Cost of living is insane though, and there’s way too much traffic for my liking, which would really impact my quality of life.
I make around what the OP is talking about, work less than half as much, and my COL is way lower. I’ll just travel to CA if I feel like it, but I’m not interested in moving.
That’s a larger equation, and it sounds like it totally makes sense for you. I’ve been working remote to SF for 15 years and made the same choice you did. That experience has also let me see that the comp to effort ratio there is very very good.
How’s the remote pay? I was under the impression that you get your pay adjusted based on where you live, so you wouldn’t make SF money of you live elsewhere.
I did the math a while ago and I could probably make $100k or so more if I move there, but that would go almost entirely to COL and taxes, and I’d have to put up with SF traffic as well. And I have kids, so I’m unwilling to commute there (e.g. fly there for the weekdays).
I’ve worked on site there (my company partnered with Facebook for a project, so I hung out with one of their teams), and I really didn’t like it. But I’ve heard a lot of people like it, so do what works I guess. My in-laws keep trying to convince me to move to SoCal, but that’s worse than SF to me.
This isn’t the only guy hiring in SF. By and large the pay seems really good for below average effort.
Cost of living is insane though, and there’s way too much traffic for my liking, which would really impact my quality of life.
I make around what the OP is talking about, work less than half as much, and my COL is way lower. I’ll just travel to CA if I feel like it, but I’m not interested in moving.
That’s a larger equation, and it sounds like it totally makes sense for you. I’ve been working remote to SF for 15 years and made the same choice you did. That experience has also let me see that the comp to effort ratio there is very very good.
How’s the remote pay? I was under the impression that you get your pay adjusted based on where you live, so you wouldn’t make SF money of you live elsewhere.
I did the math a while ago and I could probably make $100k or so more if I move there, but that would go almost entirely to COL and taxes, and I’d have to put up with SF traffic as well. And I have kids, so I’m unwilling to commute there (e.g. fly there for the weekdays).
I’ve worked on site there (my company partnered with Facebook for a project, so I hung out with one of their teams), and I really didn’t like it. But I’ve heard a lot of people like it, so do what works I guess. My in-laws keep trying to convince me to move to SoCal, but that’s worse than SF to me.