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04-09-2022, 07:07 PM #51
There’s people commuting over Snoqualmie everyday from Cle Elum and Ellensburg.
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04-09-2022, 07:11 PM #52
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04-09-2022, 07:18 PM #53
Remote work location near Bay Area or Seattle?
Like everyone else on the west side commuting from the burbs. I wouldn’t do either, that’s why I live here. Mile to work and 12 miles to the lift.
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04-09-2022, 07:35 PM #54
"Hello Peter. What's happening... Um, I'm gonna need you go ahead and come back to the office. So if you could be here around nine, that would be great.
Oh, yeah… I forgot. I'm gonna also need you to come in Sunday too. We, uh, lost some people this week and we need to sorta catch up. Thanks."
Fortune: Managers declare WFH is over
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04-09-2022, 07:43 PM #55
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04-09-2022, 07:48 PM #56
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04-09-2022, 07:58 PM #57
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04-09-2022, 08:01 PM #58
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04-09-2022, 08:28 PM #59
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04-09-2022, 08:30 PM #60
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04-09-2022, 08:56 PM #61
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04-09-2022, 09:03 PM #62
What a cunt she was (and presumably still is): https://time.com/4421972/marissa-mayer-mothers/
Banned WFH, then took virtually no maternity leave, but had a nursery installed next to her office at Yahoo. I mean, that's something everyone can do, right? She might as well have just said "let them eat cake."Last edited by The AD; 04-09-2022 at 09:24 PM.
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04-09-2022, 09:16 PM #63
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04-09-2022, 09:25 PM #64
That’s weak criticism. I read that Time article and it’s heavy handed gender bashing. The reason WFH was banned is because it was so poorly administered. A huge number of employees never came back because they were getting paid for doing nothing.
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04-09-2022, 09:27 PM #65
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04-09-2022, 09:30 PM #66
1.25-1.5 (OP's budget) will certainly open more doors, but here's a 1M example:
https://www.redfin.com/WA/Seattle/75...17/home/166842
Regarding some others mentioned above, if I wanted to live somewhere cheaper and didn't need to be in the office every day, I'd certainly pick Cle Elum or Leavenworth or Bham over Monroe.
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04-09-2022, 09:49 PM #67
Unless you have to move to the Bay Area for work, I don’t see why you would unless you really want to be specifically here. I love it and can barely picture living many other places, but it’s so insanely expensive that there are pretty massive sacrifices that are inherent to being here, assuming (like it sounds) that you can make the same amount of money somewhere else.
If you do want to live here or nearby, I think you should probably rent for a year and get a sense of what all these places are like. SF, San Rafael, the peninsula, Auburn, Santa Cruz, Reno…they’re all incredibly different places with unique pros and cons. I like them all (well, maybe not the peninsula so much) but my life would be way different in each of them. I mean, my life is very different living in the Sunset vs the years I spent living in SOMA.
I will say that living in Auburn or other gold country/foothills towns would make skiing magnitudes easier than anywhere in the Bay Area. And still a sort of tolerable commute if you’re only doing it once a week and you can time it to avoid rush hour.
But yeah, it’s been many years that I’ve been sick of hearing all the people who moved here for tech jobs complaining about how much they don’t like it, when I moved here because I loved the area and not to make $$$$$$
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04-09-2022, 10:30 PM #68
Yes, and you can get something bigger with a larger lot if you move to a slightly less desirable area, but still in the city.
I've got to admit after looking at some listings that anything much under a million is starting to get a bit dicey. Certainly you can find houses for that, but there's probably going to be some work needed or they're going to be in an iffy location.
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04-09-2022, 10:59 PM #69
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04-09-2022, 11:38 PM #70Registered User
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If working in Redmond, you don't want to live in Seattle proper. Recreation is much closer living on the Eastside unless you want to go to the beach. Pick north, south or east depending on what you want that occasional commute to be. If you are looking to spend $1.5M, you'll be fine finding something. I live 5 minutes from Duthie for MTB and can be at Alpental in 40 minutes most days. Can be in Redmond in 30 minutes. We have houses going for ~$1M for 1700ish square feet (if there's inventory and you win the bidding). 2K square feet is ~$1.5M. (I hadn't looked at pricing lately, holy crap!) Great schools, 10 minutes to I90 to get wherever you want to go.
That said, I'd do Cle Elum area. If weather is bad over the pass, don't go in that day. Tons of people make that commute regularly. I'm still trying to convince my wife to make the move, but with 3 high schoolers, it's not happening anytime soon.
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04-10-2022, 12:06 AM #71
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04-10-2022, 12:52 AM #72?
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I’m not going to promote the area because we really are full. But most of the tech companies have quietly moving operations here. So the trips to the Silicon Valley have become mute. I currently work an account that is in NYC / Connecticut. I will never fly there. The occasional 5 am zoom calls suck. We do what we have to
Own your fail. ~Jer~
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04-10-2022, 06:41 AM #73
Anyone praising Mayer's stint at Yahoo as a success has no idea what they're talking about. lol... I mean, really? My 8 year old could have been CEO during that period and the stock would still have gone up.
Those gains were almost entirely related to prior investments in China, for those not paying attention.I ski 135 degree chutes switch to the road.
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04-10-2022, 07:31 AM #74
On thing people are missing with the WFH thing - global companies have everything be a call anyway because you're so spread out, so WFH or hybrid as standard makes a ton more sense as you get a bigger recruiting pool and carry less RE expenses
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04-10-2022, 02:18 PM #75
If I had to be in Seattle once every few weeks, I'd live in Missoula or Bozeman. Oh wait, that's why a house costs $600k here now. 2x that in Bozeman.
Settle the lawsuit over my brother's death, I don't even think it'll cover a house here now. Well, technically it's all my sister-in-law's and the lawyer's money, I think.
The cost of living is going nuts all over the world and I don't know how we as a society can keep up. IDK how/where/when it's gonna break but it won't be pretty when it does.
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