"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.
You betcha -- I certainly did. I worked in the valley for eighteen
years but never lived in the south bay -- I've never liked that
much concrete. Before bailing out I was driving on a more-or-less
daily basis from Petaluma to San Jose. When that project ended we
pulled chocks and moved to the Sierras. 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. I will admit, however, that
I still can't figure out why one guy opted for ND...
Personally, I'll boil my head before I work in the valley again. It will
hurt less.
--
Chris Kennedy
chris_at_mainecoon.com
http://www.mainecoon.com
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Received on Tue May 30 2000 - 00:33:44 BST