Re: It Depends…
In my case we were priced out of the city. I would never be able to buy a home in the city. In the suburban town where I live now, there are no decent tech jobs at all (maybe a few minimum wage help desk jobs?).
If we stayed in the city, we would be living in a small apartment paying higher rent than our mortgage payment. Add to that the factors of noise, air pollution, and crime, and staying it the city was not much of an option.
The fact that I can do 95% of my job remotely, this falls on my employer not being at all flexible. The funny thing is that the ownership consider themselves big-time environmentalists constantly preaching sustainability. They put out all kinds of PR claiming to be a very environmentally responsible company, while requiring me to make an 80 mile round-trip commute 5 days a week when I could be working from home 4 days of it.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
