[sethc2]

The article brings up that for most a home office is a luxury.

And i thought how is that possible, just use some extra room in your house.

Then I remembered having a house and an extra room might be an easy thing to attain as a software developer, but that is only true because I don’t live in the Bay Area or Seattle.

Yet in those areas you might have more fun on weekends.

Just to see, I looked at prices for a round trip ticket from the pacific northwest to the bay, and how much a 3 night stay in a hotel would cost. I was able to find a non stop flight and a cheap hotel for $200 (which seems crazy to me).

So if I could find those deals every other week I could spend bout $1000 (food and Uber included) a month and get to spend six days a month in the Bay Area.

My mortgage is like $1900 a month for 4 bed 2 bath 2300 sq ft on an acre and a 15 minute ride to the airport.

I feel like if I did that and spent $2900 a month combined for my trips and mortgage id have both a good home office and would still get to work once every two weeks on a Friday in the office and enjoy awesome SF food plenty frequently enough while probably paying less then what most people in SF pay just for rent.

Anyone consider this? (I have a wife and kids so biweekly trips would be a “not gonna happen” for me)

[74d-fe6-2c6]

> The article brings up that for most a home office is a luxury.

> And i thought how is that possible, just use some extra room in your house.

You made my day ... LOL ... yes, we all have a house with an extra room. That itself is not a luxury at all </irony>

Having said that - I just work in the sleeping room and that works just fine as well.

[sethc2]

Wait you don’t have an extra room to use as an office? What about in one of your other houses? One of them has got to have at least one empty room you could use right?

[roel_v]

I knew some people who did something like that 20 years ago, "living" (having a family) in the south of France and working in Frankfurt. They only did it to give their families the chance to live near their extended families or for the jobs of their partners, nobody did it because it improved their quality of life. It's probably different when you're 25 and single vs when you're 40 with a family, but I don't know anyone who works away from home several days a week and enjoys it, and it's not an uncommon pattern for consulting people around these parts of Europe (apart from the status symbol that this sort of lifestyle is, despite it objectively sucking - weird how people are that way).

[commandlinefan]

> just use some extra room in your house.

unless your wife called it first.