Don't get me wrong. I like Austin a lot.
But if--after her last summer's trip to Austin and dinner at the Salt Lick--I were to propose to my wife that we move from Berkeley to Austin so that we could double the size of our house and live fifteen minutes closer to the center... well, I don't want to do that... Yours, Brad DeLong On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 6:36 PM, John Williams <jwilliams4...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Dan Minette <danmine...@att.net> wrote: > > > they give the average starting salary for an EE in the US as 59,646, but > in > > the SF area it is about 74,700. So, that is about a 25% premium. At > > simplyhired.com they state that the average EE salary in the SF area is > > $87k/year. That's not bad money, but you can't buy a million dollar > house > > with it. > > > > Housing prices are about 6x higher in the Bay area than in the Austin > area. > > Salaries for engineers are 25% higher. > > It sounds like the SF Bay area is more likely to appeal to single > engineers willing to live in a small apartment and spend all their > time at work. As compared to Austin, which sounds like it may appeal > more to a young married couple just starting a family. I wonder if the > SF tech firms are counting on that. > > _______________________________________________ > http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com > >
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