Yeah, it kind of sucks. If I had to pay $1.5M for just an apartment I would go elsewhere. But unfortunately, all the decent jobs are in the bay area. I tried looking for remote work but couldn't find anything decent that seemed like a good job that paid decent. As soon as I gave up and decided to widen my search to a job that required me to be in the office every day I had a huge abundance of companies I could work at.