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Re:The perk companies should be offering employees: Help wit... by davidjnelson on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @03:40PM (#14807252)
A few ways I've seen or can imagine for how to own a nice house in the Bay Area:

a) Get through the gauntlet at Google/Facebook; have a low quality of life living with roommates etc. for 10 years; save and invest like crazy

b) work for a mid size pre ipo start up that has a great exit

c) win the lottery

d) inherit a house from your parents

e) have rich and generous parents who buy you a house or give you a massive chunk of cash for a down payment

f) become an executive

g) start a highly profitable business

h) buy in the exurbs and have an awful commute

i) move to Seattle or similar

j) work remotely and leave the Bay Area

k) buy a house and split the mortgage with three or four friends

l) buy a place you don't like, and use the equity to upgrade every five years until you are in a nice house

Those all seem like they would work. Any other methods?

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Re:The perk companies should be offering employees: Help wit... by dv_dt on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @02:21PM (#14806575)
I think the name for "help with housing" is income... otherwise we are just looking at the return of company towns.
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Re:The perk companies should be offering employees: Help wit... by revmoo on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @03:46PM (#14807306)
Agreed, this is a terrifically dumb idea. It's bad enough that you usually lose your healthcare after being let go.
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Re:The perk companies should be offering employees: Help wit... by borplk on Thursday July 20, 2017 @05:29AM (#14811067)
No perk better than cash. I don't want a nanny company.
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Re:The perk companies should be offering employees: Help wit... by davidjnelson on Thursday July 20, 2017 @08:39PM (#14817308)
Agree. But companies aren't offering enough salary to buy something nice with a short commute.
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