[faanghacker]

I am a Silicon Valley native, graduated from Stanford, worked at Google for a decade. Never felt like I belonged there socially or in terms of viewpoints.

I left to complete the journey to financial independence without the burden of California state income tax. I got no benefit from being around a bunch of one dimensional software engineers with zero creativity in their lives outside of tech, no sense of independence or adventure.

[didibus]

That's generalizing, California is huge, and has big creative art scenes. The tech bubble side of things is not all there is to it.

[david38]

You’re hanging out with the wrong engineers.

But I hear you. You should move, at least do a six month lease somewhere and work remotely.

[pyinstallwoes]

Where’d you go Bouts?