From my perspective, it's the same as registering your business address in Delaware to take advantage of their low tax rates.

So many people seem to think they've come up with clever workarounds to tax laws. It's almost never true.

EDITED: Also, you could not get a driver's license in Ohio since you have to live there to get one. Forget about registering cars, owning property and paying for anything with a credit card in your own name.

Seattle would probably be a better choice, as a high-wage, relative low-tax city.

For every SF developer there is probably a just as good developer in Boise or Belarus willing to do the job for much less. Why should a SF developer who moves there make more?

People are worth a lot, but they become worth less monetarily as the talent pool grows in size.

(As I commented elsewhere, whether you think paying by local cost of living is the right policy is valid to debate but isn't the point here.)

I mean, the vast, vast majority of FB employees can easily get jobs with other companies. If you don't like it, leave.

I’m not saying they should drop your salary if you move, but I also don’t think a lot of people hired at typical SV rates are actually worth that much, so much as they can’t afford to live there if paid less.

An employer never pays you what you're worth, they pay you the lowest possible salary they can get away with.

Flying back to the bay for 2 days a week is probably a reasonable CoL arbitrage if you only need housing for 2 days.

State tax authorities do not share this perspective.

So if you leave NY temporarily and work remotely from FL you will no longer have income tax while you are in FL.

NY state has first dollar claim if your employer says your job is in NY regardless of your physical address. If, for example, you live in NJ but commute into NY, you’re paying NY state tax with no opt-out. NJ credits residents for NY taxes but then gets their money via property taxes.

NYC is even crazier, with part time residents going so far as to take daily pictures of themselves with local papers to prove that they reside outside the city more than half the year to avoid NYC income tax.