[Retric]

You can still do remote work from a cheap location, or stay and have FU money.

Giving up 500k in salary for a chance to make 500k in stock is a terrible bet. Alternatively, only save up 100k in 10 years, go to Vegas and bet it all at slightly negative odds. You can set things up for a 20% chance of getting ~500k which is better odds than many startups while still having more day to day money.

[lbn]

> You can still do remote work from a cheap location

Wouldn't the employer insist on paying in the local salary range?

[mathgeek]

In my experience, this is not the case.

[rhizome]

You can still do remote work from a cheap location, or stay and have FU money.

Do they have good schools in $cheap_location?

[Retric]

There are a very large number of cheap locations with good schools. Especially when you include private schools.

[mathgeek]

Private schools tend to increase the "cheap" part quite a bit.

[Retric]

Depends on # of kids. Many great schools are well under 10k/year, but that's only so useful if you have 5 kids.

[nommm-nommm]

9k a year is not cheap.

[Retric]

Sure, though that only starts after pre-k and k, which tends to be much cheaper.

Anyway, if you compare starting a family with ~1M in the bank and 1 income at 50k vs. dual income 220k in the valley and no savings outside of home equity there are benefits on both sides.

[srtjstjsj]

It's cheap compared to paying an extra 20k/yr in rent or mortgage and property tax.

[eru]

Sure. Better ones than in the US, even. (Eg Finland perhaps?)