I’d suggest that but Walz seems like he’s in a race with Newsom to make the worst state possible.
They should come to South Dakota then. All the blizzards without any of the Minnesota.
This. 
If you can live here in Wisconsin (my 1 bedroom apartment is $400 a month, about 2 blocks from Lake Michigan, it’s a good deal and apartments go for 1,200 on the high end here but that would be for something like a 3BR or a whole house rental) and work from home that’s a steal compared to the average in Irvine… which I just looked up and is $2,800 a month AVERAGE.
Why someone would want to move there is beyond me.
Maybe they like deserts, IDK.
But lets say you make Blizzard pay rates for a software engineer (and with people leaving you had best believe they have positions posted everywhere) So I’ll ask google and click around for a second.
So an administrative assistant makes $15.15 per hour. (Ca minimum wage) this is at the very lowest end at Blizzard… because it can’t really go lower.
A software engineer makes $50.67 per hour. This is on the higher end. Head Developers apparently make 200k+ per year, but I doubt there’s more than a handful of those there.
(This is per indeed, with 770 data points in the past 36 months)
If average rent is $2,800 per month, that’s $33,600 per year.
That software engineer makes about $105,000 per year. So it’s about 1/3 of his GROSS pay. After taxes and utilities it’s going to be about half of his take home. Add in a family, car, and silly things like food and he essentially has nothing left.
That administrative assistant makes about $31,000 per year. So he actually cannot afford rent. He would need to live in a slum or get multiple roommates. He might need to get food from a pantry and almost certainly would not have a car.
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2,800 a month is actually lower than what I thought it would be. Back when I lived in Port Hueneme we were paying 2,800 for a 2 bath,1 bedroom 1 loft apartment right on the docks. So glad I moved out of California.
Well, that’s average, apparently.
So half of it’s higher.
IDK but those prices are just absolutely insane to me.
I work as an RN and I would just barely be able to afford that. It’s actually 7x what I pay here in Wisconsin.
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Crunch and forcing people to move to the office to get crunched is a very ethical combo.
Hah, the trolls falsely reported the topic. They know it’s true and are scared for their middle management jobs.
Most companies aren’t going to pay you to relocate unless you are valuable and hard to find/replace.
Normal.
Which is why people are leaving cesspools like California and moving to places like Texas.
Normal for many jobs.
Also a normal part of life for many people.
It’s almost like you have no idea how the real world works for many grown ups, you’ll figure it out one day.
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Funnily enough $400 is what I pay down here in Louisiana for my place. Yeah it’s Louisiana but I’m doing the same thing down here as I was in California, going to work and playing WoW.
Least I get to see what rain is down here.
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It’s sad how you hate workers so much.
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I don’t. It’s just that you don’t have any idea how the real world actually works.
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The only thing I can say for Cali is that it would be nice to not have snow for a while.
But then I get to walk out to Lake Michigan to swim in Wisconsin (while banking about half of each check for retirement) so there’s no way in hell I’d leave for the desert.
California is just a different breed of people. I just would go insane if I had to live there. Paying $4.25 per gallon of milk would just make me upset knowing the exact same thing is $2 something here in Wi.
People like you are why Unions are dead except the corrupt Police Union.
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Yeah my dad still lives out in Cali but he’s like the lead electrician for one of the oil rigs so he aint hurting but it’s nuts when he talks about filling his truck up and he’s spending almost $150 every time.
Spoken like a sad little walmart greeter that never amounted to much.
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I mean I’d be just as jaded if my calling was handing out smiley face stickers
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The rEeL WuRLD
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Yikes relocating to california. No way.
Houses cost way too much. I’d tell to shove the job.nRemote or I’m walking
In The Real World™, companies that are failing due to having a revolving door and loss of experience in the workforce should get rid of more employees because reasons.
I mean, its not like most companies prospered under wfh, right? Clearly that’s the problem. Oh wait.
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So just shrug and accept it?