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Re:Uber wants to cut costs by shifting its engineering to India by itake on Saturday July 04, 2020 @10:34AM (#23732465)
To add to this when I worked remotely for two years I was always worried that if I move to a low cost of living city and I lost my job I will be screwed. No one would hire me at the rate I was paid with the SF company.
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Re:Uber wants to cut costs by shifting its engineering to India by nkingsy on Saturday July 04, 2020 @10:52AM (#23732611)
This has happened to me. Ended up working for a very scary company because they were the only local option that came close to matching my bay area salary. Moved back to the Bay Area less than a year later.

Lesson learned, I won’t be moving again without a relocation package

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Re:Uber wants to cut costs by shifting its engineering to India by lumost on Saturday July 04, 2020 @11:02AM (#23732697)
This has always been my big concern with leaving a major tech city ( even to go to the suburbs ). your opportunities shrink.

I'd be curious if this will change as more companies offer full-time remote.

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Re:Uber wants to cut costs by shifting its engineering to India by ghaff on Saturday July 04, 2020 @11:36AM (#23732963)
Silicon Valley (mostly) is "the suburbs." Although there are more tech jobs in downtowns than there used to be, in a lot of areas most of the tech jobs are in suburbs/exurbs.
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Re:Uber wants to cut costs by shifting its engineering to India by lumost on Saturday July 04, 2020 @01:25PM (#23733639)
It's a bit different here on the East Coast. While there are plenty of options in the suburbs - the number within an individuals commuting radius drops.
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Re:Uber wants to cut costs by shifting its engineering to India by ghaff on Saturday July 04, 2020 @01:45PM (#23733755)
There are a lot of pretty bad commutes in SV too.

I live (well) outside of Boston. About 20 years ago, there wasn't a single real tech employer in the city. That's changed primarily with Kendall and the Seaport. But there's still a huge amount in Metrowest and some in the northern suburbs going up to southern NH.

I've been lucky that through several jobs I've never had a really bad commute except into Boston for a time--but I didn't have to do it every day and there is a commuter rail.

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Re:Uber wants to cut costs by shifting its engineering to India by justinclift on Saturday July 04, 2020 @11:01AM (#23732684)
> very scary company

What did they do?

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