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&#x27;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.