29 May
2000
29 May
'00
6:02 p.m.
We have smog checks in Dallas, but I live in a small town (12k pop. I
commute 25 minutes to downtown and just built a 3500 ft2 house on a lake
shore last year for $225k. Salaries are a bit lower here. I made $82k as
the CTO for a small vertical market VAR last year. I might be able to
pull more money in the SV but I went out and looked around a few years
ago when I was between marriages and decided it was too crowded even
then.
James
Chris Kennedy wrote:
"Vintage Computer GAWD!" wrote:
Workers will start to realize spending 3-5 hours
(or more!) a day in
traffic just doesn't make sense anymore at ANY salary and will move
somewhere else to find work.
Same income level, but
the air is clean (hell, we don't even have biennial smog checks) and
an eighteen-month-old, 2400 sq ft home on a little more than an acre
of dirt cost less than $200K.
My staff is now geographically disperse; I let them live and work
anywhere they please as long as they can get connectivity -- if
I'm going to live in the middle of a national forest the least I can do
is extend the same flexibility to my staff.