Thoughts? An intern here, will be graduating soon and have options in SD, LA burbs and SV? Thanks...
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Go wherever you want, I don't think anybody here gives a sheet. Seriously, set your own destiny and have a fun journey along the way, wherever it may be.
stay in school bro
It’s a jungle out here
no safe spaces allowed
Commiefornia costs s--- and Governor NewSCUM is only going to make it worse.
true..bay area is victim of its own success - unless high chances of IPO or buyout, a regular job there has downsides vs more balanced locations.
but people tend to stick around for the wide tableau of job opportunity though.
You should move to affordable places like texas instead of crowding the already crowded places.
My salary in SoCal as a senior engineer outside Intel currently sits $200k, excluding bonus and stock. The hours I save from having better work life balance than people in bay area afford me time to run a $100k/year net small side surf business, and I get to take an 1.5 hour lunch break surfing.
My home only costs about $1.5 million and 5 minutes to the beach. İt's paid off. That same amount would cost some bay area slop $3 million..İnstead, he ends up spending $5000/month to rent a dump SFH in Santa Clara, and his higher W2 wage income is subject to 39.5%+ state and federal income tax, and an excessive Medicare tax...Maybe that's why so many higher paid engineers and even doctors in the Bay area have no choice and still rent and why google and Facebook find it so hard to hire senior people from other geographic locstions???