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Re:LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value by toomuchtodo on Saturday February 06, 2016 @11:54PM (#11051680)
What's your reason for living in SF and still traveling frequently? Access to work in SF?

I ask because I'm a remote worker for an SF startup, home base in a low cost of living area, but I travel frequently as well (but the home was purchased somewhere where the house is paid in full already and the monthly upkeep is ~$500/month).

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Re:LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value by Swizec on Sunday February 07, 2016 @03:24PM (#11054629)
Access to work is about the same as remote with social network in SF.

Two reasons why I choose to stay here: 1) building said network so I can go back to proper nomading easier, and 2) access to the startup lottery; nobody gives shares/options to remote workers and/or independent consultants/freelancers

Lottery is a nice potential upside with next to zero downside as an engineer

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Re:LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value by toomuchtodo on Sunday February 07, 2016 @11:51PM (#11056396)
> nobody gives shares/options to remote workers

I received equity as part of my remote worker compensation (my entire team is remote though).

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