Does anyone regret moving to bay area or SF?

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Apr 13, 2020 952 Comments

Does anyone regret moving to bay area or SF due to travel or any personal opinion specially working parents?

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    rabbithole

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    rabbithole
    I do. Moved from Seattle. What a boring place. Sucks soul out of you.
    Apr 13, 2020 40
    • Well that’s just your opinion, and it’s well only your point of view, nothing more. I’ve spent 4 years in the SF bay, and in my opinion it’s weather sucks. No seasons, every day is like the other one, people get skin and hair problems of the constant heat. Life flies by, and the whole area is like a big hot where people come and go. Of course there’s much of Indian people in Redmond, but overall it’s a food mix. Almost any company in the bay is like 70-90% Indian, and that’s not only my experience, I’ve got lots of friends who still live in work there. But overall, I think this discussion is useless since there’s no place in the world that fits everyone. I’m glad you like it down there, I love it up here and I finally live a life like I wanted
      Apr 19, 2020
    • The Bay Area has some interesting people but with that being said there are ton of boring fucking guy who think life is a race and cannot talk about anything other than TC. Also I’m so tired of living in “Indian Village”
      Jul 14, 2020
  • Google
    whipit

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    whipit
    I moved out of the bay a few months back. Can’t believe I spent many years there in retrospect. amazing weather and a Great place for career progression if you work at a top company. Just be prepared to live in SF and suffer brutal commutes (to Apple, Facebook, Netflix or Google), or live in South Bay and face a soulless, devoid culture filled with $1.5m homes from 1950 intermixed with brand new corporate offices and apartment housing. Child care is insanely expensive, and parks are not well maintained. schools are largely poorly performing unless you live in very expensive areas.
    Apr 13, 2020 31
  • I think i am well qualified as i moved in and out of bay area 3 times in the past 8 years.
    if you are single and share rooms bay area is great for career progression, if you have a family and only one working partner, it becomes very difficult to save. So moved out the first time due to this.

    Got a good offer and a chance to initiate GC so moved to SF company and after staying around 2.5 years and having our first kid started to feel the pinch again as the BARt struggle was too much and salary was not growing. Moved out again.
    After a year or so got a great offer in the south bay moved back in, everything was great but still was missing the charm of living in a smaller city. So again moved out with 200K TC which is less that what i used to make around 260K in bay area but after expenses i am saving more. Living in a awesome townhome and the view is priceless.
    Apr 13, 2020 18
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    tr479

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    tr479
    People come to Austin.
    Apr 14, 2020 15
    • Google
      KungFloo!

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      KungFloo!
      Lol. Moved from Bay to Austin and back. Ton of people from the coasts selling their houses to buy something bigger in Austin. Now it's full of Left coast refugees who have two complaints: 1. "It's nice except for all these other people here!" 2. They can't understand why their preferences for progressive politics lead to rampant homelessness and dangerous streets, so now the streets are full of homeless drug users like the cities they left.
      Apr 15, 2020
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      i675466fbb
      What is the connection between progressive politics and homelessness
      Apr 17, 2020
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    xyz!xyz!
    5th generation San Francisco native here. If transplants want to leave, I’m not mad at that. I tried moving away once and lasted one year. I will live here the rest of my life and so will my family of police officers, firefighters, teachers, electricians, etc who don’t touch the tech industry. This isn’t just Silicon Valley and a place to get ahead in your career for a few years. It’s HOME for many of us who happened to wind up in tech because we were raised here.
    Apr 14, 2020 11
    • SAP
      xyz!xyz!

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      @romba123 They honestly have no clue. My parents would die if they knew how much my husband and I make. We really try to not discuss work and finances at all.

      And @woopscat that’s exactly right. My mom thinks any individual making over $100k is well off. She’s been teaching in the Bay Area since the early ‘80s and still makes under a six figure salary.

      They didn’t do too badly in the ‘90s, purchased a modest house. But they really could hardly afford it when they purchased it, and after 10 years when the balloon payment kicked in and their salaries couldn’t handle it, they just kept pulling equity until they lost control and ultimately lost their home in 2008. It was devastating for my family. They had to live with family members for years to build back their credit enough to be able to rent a small two bedroom apartment and they were ostracized from the community where I grew up.

      So I’m sorry if I was a little testy at first. It’s a really personal topic for me. I hate when people assume that mine and my husband’s successes were handed to us and that we have wealthy families supporting us. We’ve done it all on our own. Paid for our education, our own wedding, our home we own, etc.

      All that said, I still love the Bay Area and would never leave. Too much family history here... not all of it bad ;)
      Apr 14, 2020
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      Othello210

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      Othello210
      My happiest time in SF was when all the 1990s dot-com douchebags moved out of the city and everything became affordable again -- and I was surrounded by folks who weren't obsessed with money and tech success.

      I assume it is 100X worse now than I ever saw in the 1990s and 2000s.
      Apr 16, 2020