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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]STAY AWAY FROM CA!

I work for an IT company based in Palo Alto.  They opened a Reston, VA office. The second I got a chance, I got a transfer and  I moved my ass as fast as possible out of the bay area.  Despite making 240K/yr is was impossible to raise a family comfortably. Everything is expensive, housing, childcare., TAXES, everything! It is so hard to get ahead. Many people were clamoring to head East. Yea, much of CA looks like paradise, but there is an undercurrent of hell, like running on a financial hamster wheel and getting nowhere.

I LOVE living in Reston. I'm 10min from my job (and sometimes even bike there!), my kids go to a great public school, we are saving, we have a nice home, we are not suffocated by congestion, and our lifestyle is so much healthier.

I'd move back to the bay area for no less than 500k/yr. That kind of COL was a terrible way to try to raise kids.[/quote]

OP here: I have heard this from a few of my IT friends who took jobs in CA after grad school. Many of them didn't have a choice because they are not citizens. It's funny you love Reston because my family lives there. It feels congested compared to where we live now. [/quote]

I guess it's perspective. If you think Reston is congested,  take the job in CA and come back and update me. The fact that i can bike anywhere i need to go, including my high paying job and can actually afford it is a dream come true.  I will never again set foot in thr state of CA as a resident. The taxes alone are outrageous. nope nope nope.[/quote]

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