Re:How the Valley treats experienced people
by LyndsySimon on Sunday December 30, 2018 @12:22PM
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> Meanwhile in the south you can make those same six figures and have a 5 bedroom house with a mortgage of 1.5k
Or in my case, a 5 bedroom house with a mortgage of $850.
We paid ~$125k for ours, in a semi-rural area, last year.
It blows my mind that people would prefer to live in the Valley or elsewhere. I put in my five years in a higher COL area (Charlottesville, VA) to build my earning potential - and then I moved back to where I grew up as soon as I was confident that I could hold down a well-paying remote dev position and could get another one if the need arose.
The disparity between the coasts and "middle America" is insane. Working for a company based in the LA area, I make literally 2-3x what my colleagues are making working for local companies - while my employer pays me probably around half of what they'd have to pay for similar talent local to them.
Or in my case, a 5 bedroom house with a mortgage of $850.
We paid ~$125k for ours, in a semi-rural area, last year.
It blows my mind that people would prefer to live in the Valley or elsewhere. I put in my five years in a higher COL area (Charlottesville, VA) to build my earning potential - and then I moved back to where I grew up as soon as I was confident that I could hold down a well-paying remote dev position and could get another one if the need arose.
The disparity between the coasts and "middle America" is insane. Working for a company based in the LA area, I make literally 2-3x what my colleagues are making working for local companies - while my employer pays me probably around half of what they'd have to pay for similar talent local to them.