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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My brother is thinking of moving there, working at  Ames as civil servant making $135k.  Plan is to buy TH in contra costa county and commute.  Insane?[/quote]

I moved from Ames to Goddard about 10 years ago, and while there's a lot I miss about the Bay Area, I would not move back.  The cost of living, particularly real estate, and traffic were miserable then and have only gotten worse. Commuting from contra costa would be awful. I was lucky enough to rent a small house in Mountain View <10 minutes from Ames, but that looks to be prohibitively expensive now.

In addition, Ames is a different Center than Goddard and seems less healthy in terms of opportunities. There is far less mission work, if that's relevant to your brother.  There are fewer opportunities to hire new civil servants, so promising postdocs end up in long-term soft money positions or end up leaving, which doesn't help build a vital workforce.  I loved my time there and wish it were different, but Goddard may be better career-wise.[/quote]

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