So, the salary is still half SF, and 2 hrs away w/ TN Seattle pays %90 SF. And cheaper housing.
LA is highway culture, SF the city is transit culture.
Re:The decline of Vancouver
by fredophile on Sunday March 22, 2015 @01:15PM
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I've been away from SF for a couple years now but I have a hard time believing that the average programmer is being paid ~200k. The salaries the GP listed seem about 80% of SF salaries to me.
Transit culture? Is that the idiotic 'I love sitting 3 hours a day in a bus going up and down 101 from my home to my employer in the South Bay and back'?
Re:The decline of Vancouver
by selectodude on Sunday March 22, 2015 @01:38PM
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Seriously, the public transit is only great in San Francisco if you're only comparing it to the rest of California.
There are employers inside SF itself. If you live in suburbs, you need a car, just like Vancouver. There are many people who just live & work in SF and use transit the majority of the time.
SF salary is $180k intermediate/$220k senior?
Here's my comment to back up dennispi post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9245915
As per my post (the TL;DR summary here...): Intermediate Engineer 90k or more, Senior 110k or more. Better health insurance/coverage. For example: child-birth cost almost nothing (VIP room costs $100 ish for 2-3 days after corp. insurance cover the rest, regular room is covered by basic health insurance I think).
>Finally, commutes range from 5-30 minutes (and that's going to cover people who walk, bike and take transit).
I'd like put that in bold (as stated in my comment as well). This is different compare to the States where Highway is the One True Way :). (I used to live in LA before settling down in Vancouver).