I'd argue that the Bay area is affordable and one can buy a home (given the current real estate market here), though your comfort level will not be as good as other areas in the country and you're going to make sacrifices about areas where you'd like to live versus areas where you can afford to live.
I moved out of state for a year to North Carolina and hated it. The Bay area offers designers amazing career opportunities, rich cultural institutions, great weather, great education, etc. At this point I would not consider moving anywhere else just because I'm enjoying life here too much. ----- Original Message ---- From: Dan Saffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: IxDA Discuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 7:26:08 AM Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers? On Feb 20, 2008, at 12:05 PM, dave malouf wrote: > 2) Like what David Shaw said. You've gotta be nutz, coocoo, and just > insane to leave anyplace including NYC and move to SF unless you were > guaranteed something between $150k-$200k, and HUGE relocation package > upwards of $20-$30k. Having done relocates to both coasts I'm pretty > familiar with what it takes at this point. Wow. I want to work where you work! Most interaction designers I know in the Bay Area don't make anywhere close to this amount. I'd say about half of this ($75-100k) is about average. I moved to SF in my mid-30s (with a family I should add) and yes, I won't be buying a house anytime soon, but if what's important to you is doing really interesting work surrounded by a high calibre interaction design community, the Bay Area is hard to beat. The access you get to some amazing people and companies (startups and giants alike) is almost unreal. In a few block radius from my office there is frog, Twitter, Yahoo labs, Cooper, Hot, IDEO, Six Apart, Technorati, Adobe, Nokia...the list goes on and on. Location still matters. Dan ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
