[jankedout]

"Even techies, who want to raise a family, can't afford San Francisco anymore".

Dublin/Livermore is pretty cheap. If only more tech companies would take a hint and start building East Bay locations. If your employees can't afford to live close enough to your offices, then you should move your offices closer to them, or where real estate is more reasonable.

[zgwhoa]

I think that's pretty reasonable. An alternative would be to create a culture of working remotely without decreasing productivity. I remember reading something about Buffer and their approach to remote work and having a more distributed team.