Tech workers are increasingly looking to leave Silicon Valley
For anyone interested… We just moved back to Atlanta in September after five years in the Bay Area, to be closer to family, and to be able to afford a house, ever.<p>I was well paid at Google, and loved working at YouTube. I also severely miss our many friends, as well as beautiful San Francisco: I used to walk up Bernal Hill one or two days a week with my toddler. Pictures of oceans and hills and everything else make me sad…<p>That said, we could <i>never</i> afford a house in San Francisco. And to get affordable, we'd have had to have gone <i>way</i> out, and the commute would have been terrible.<p>I was lucky enough to find out that Square has an Atlanta office, full of <i>very</i> smart people, so I was able to keep doing Silicon-Valley-style programming, which is a big win.