[mahyarm]

Tell that to software companies that love having everyone in the same place in the same office if possible. Like Google.

If a company is going to have remote workers, they need a culture of supporting remote workers, and they need to be writing things down a lot more, which does have it's own overhead compared to talking to someone beside you.

As peoplesoft said, when you add more programmers to a project, you increase communication overhead. Working in the same office probably has something to do with that overhead.

Also you want to make more than $72k/yr (which is about $120-150k pre-tax btw) on a savings and investment aspect. And to fund projects that matter to you.