My dream office would be wfh as desired (with a physical-separated-from-my-house shed&#x2F;outbuilding, ideally), and then a choice of physical offices: a downtown SF&#x2F;Seattle&#x2F;NYC&#x2F;Berlin type place, and some kind of lab facility which is essentially a military base layout (gated, guarded, buildings onsite).<p>Second best: living eastside seattle (i.e. Redmond) or SF Peninsula, and an easy (off-peak, or viable mass transit, so basically off-peak) commute in, with flexible wfh.  I generally prefer entire-building-for-company vs. shared spaces, but not necessarily at the scale of the googleplex.  However, minimum of 200 sf&#x2F;person and ideally private offices or shared offices per small team, not open plan hell.<p>Suburban office building would be fine (the old vmware&#x2F;fb&#x2F;etc. buildings, or current googleplex&#x2F;apple&#x2F;etc.), and would be better than the super crowded cobbled together multiple offices of old Facebook or Palantir in downtown Palo Alto).<p>If suburban office parks in good locations (anywhere north of Mountain View) become substantially cheaper than DTPA or SOMA, I&#x27;d be happier with 500 ft&#x2F;person there for $18-24 vs. 100&#x2F;ft&#x2F;person for $60-100.  The trick would be having Facebook (or, it appears as is better today, Dropbox) quality catering and other amenities onsite, and a $25-50 pax&#x2F;day shuttle system.