I&#x27;m a uiuc alum also, hold a job at Apple in engineering I reckon many young folk would think wonderful, and while Apple may be, the west coast is an absolute horror.  The region is plainly unaffordable to folks earning tons yearly:  the misrepresentation of the Bay Area as any kind of promised land is nearly always a veiled manipulation by landowners and, via the H1b visa programm, business owners to lure suckers from whom money and labor can be easily obtained.