And so... Prices in the streets in that radius will go up another notch. As if Fremont and parts of Menlo Parks hasn&#x27;t gone up because of them already.<p>Acknowledge it or not, instead of paying 15,000$, Facebook could have been more remote friendly and people can live wherever they want.<p>For a company the size of Facebook&#x2F;Apple&#x2F;Google they can also have micro-offices in cities further away from the valley.<p>Employees won&#x27;t have to relocate, housing prices will settle and the damn traffic on the bridge and the 280 will be less horrible perhaps.<p>Every time I commute I think to myself, what if suddenly most companies realize that they can have 15-25% of the workforce work remotely without damaging the productivity, how many cars in front of me would just vanish?