Give it some time to get situated in the marketplace. There are a ton of "middleware" companies that are going to get absolutely crushed by openai when businesses commit.
Paying a bribe should not get you in trouble. The city forces their hand. One stroke of their pen and your design costs increase by tens of thousands under some minor pretext. If you want to get something done you absolutely have to bribe them or they will decimate your budget with endless changes.
It's well established that in high demand areas like CA regulations are excessively burdensome. But go ahead and increase regulations, maybe I can retire earlier as a result!
More likely scenario to solve the affordability issue is 40-50y mortgages, and socialistic handouts by states (like CA is doing).
In a place like SF it’s really quite fun to commute to the office. I can easily see cities not having much WFH. Elsewhere, the commute just wrecks your soul.
Housing costs are just a symptom of high cost of living.
High income taxes. Fees and taxes on everything. Burdensome regulations for everything. Oppressive cult environment. No political power or will to change. Highly litigious environment.
Housing costs are high for well known reasons (not prop 13). Likely to continue given social and political mindset.
There was an early kickstarter for a watch that did something similar and I backed it, thinking it was brilliant.
One of the first times I wore it was to a meeting, someone asked about it and when I explained how it worked he refused to continue the meeting until the watch was in the other room, turned off.
Agree. Things are very unstable and undergoing significant change. I don't think anything will coalesce until after November 2024 at the earliest. Even still, plan for long term uncertainty.
1) stay hopeful and positive, and preserve existing relationships.
2) expand your social network by attending free in-person clubs, events, etc. this is where you'll find your job. anything where people gather repeatedly over time, so you can make real connections.
3) lower financial expectations and take any job. cash flow is important in times like this.
Keep looking online also, but I suspect you'll find your next opportunity through old fashioned in-person networking.
It may not seem like it, but skilled developers really are hard to find. You want to be that lucky break for someone.
This comes up so much it's like a pathological condition. If the voting population want's more houses the solution is not to tax people out of their homes - that just swaps house occupants - the solution is to build more houses. There is plenty of land and room to do this, but the GOVERNMENT - again the ~GOVERNMENT~ implements restrictions on the building process. The restrictions are so onerous in CA that new properties are expensive. You want more houses, scale back the government control over building and building costs. Easy.