Working from home yet paying sky high Bay Area housing costs?
When Twitter, a $22 billion company with a headquarters in the center of San Francisco, told employees they could work from home permanently, techies in the Bay Area began to wonder why the had to live on the Peninsula at all.
Dylan Hecklau is thinking along the same lines. His ad-tech employer, Jelli Inc., was dubious about letting people work from home before the pandemic hit. Now that employees have proven productive, its attitude has changed. Hecklau, 32, is planning to take the money he would have spent on a Lake Tahoe vacation home and make a down payment on a permanent home in Sacramento, abandoning his $3,200-a-month rental in San Francisco. “With nothing keeping me here, I can’t justify paying the rent prices,” he says.
News articles like Buzzfeed and others started writing about the story:
Chat rooms like this thread on Y combinator lit up with conversations:
Sacramento to Palo Alto in 30 minutes on a commuter flightSo we put up a survey to see if tech workers were really interested in moving out of the Silicon Valley and into a lower cost housing area like Sacramento if there were a low cost, high frequency flight service available so they could be at the office if needed without having to endure a horrendous commute via automobile.
https://www.uamcah.com/sacramento-to-bay-area
As the results come in, we will publish them here.