Re:IT employment grew by just 700 jobs in 2023
by closeparen on Monday January 08, 2024 @01:16PM
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Jaw dropping pay is inextricable from the jaw dropping Bay Area housing market. Standard white-collar pay for Bay Area-only roles is a pretty bad deal, and most tech workers would be better off learning something else. But standard white-collar pay with the geographic distribution of other white-collar work (i.e. any mid-sized and up metro is fine) would be a perfectly good equilibrium.
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Re:IT employment grew by just 700 jobs in 2023
by nox101 on Monday January 08, 2024 @08:57PM
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It's arguably more expensive in West Los Angeles (where tech is in LA). Most articles compare LA to SF but LA is giant. If you lived in La Verne (cheap), the east most side of LA, your commute to tech companies on the West Side would be 2 to 3hrs.
Looking at Rent Cafe:
SF: $3267
Santa Monica: $3956
Venice: $3844
Playa Vista: $3726
Marina Del Rey $3896
These are all places near Meta, Google, etc....
I don't know if the "coliving" thing has hit SF yet but in LA on the west side it's all over the place. "Coliviing" where they rent out individual bedrooms for $2500-$3500 a month and you share the living room and dining room. It's like having a roommate except you have have lock on your bedroom door and no choice who your roommates are (and no responcibility if they don't pay their rent).
Re:IT employment grew by just 700 jobs in 2023
by baby_souffle on Monday January 08, 2024 @09:57PM
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> I don't know if the "coliving" thing has hit SF yet
There was a startup for just this a few years ago. Home share is what it was called.