Alternative theory: As WFH improves, WFH will increasingly mean "Work from Ukraine," "Work from India," and "Work from Ghana." It will be hard to justify SFO salaries.
Vietnam is the cheapest country to live in Asia. Da Nang is the most affordable "world-class" beach in the world. WFH should be about beaches or mountains or museums depending on your taste.
- Central America is a convenient plane hop away, and in the same timezone.
- Parts of Africa and India are anglophone, which makes life easy. Africa is at least somewhat timezone compatible (calls might cut into evening plans, but you don't lose sleep)
The cost-of-living relative to Vietnam is low enough to not matter. There are also middle-income countries where cost-of-living is a bit higher, but with much better infrastructure. Plenty of Southern and Eastern Europe is at about a third of the per-capita GDP of the US.
You're not wrong, but also currently the rust belt, including Detroit, is bouncing back somewhat because it's the last bastion of cheap housing for people who aren't making HN ivory tower money.
> Alternative theory: As WFH improves, WFH will increasingly mean "Work from Ukraine," "Work from India," and "Work from Ghana." It will be hard to justify SFO salaries.
This theory is bullshit. Outsourcing has been a thing for decade. Moving all work to the cheapest possible place has been tried many times, to varying degrees of failure.
Detroit wasn't very springy.
30+% vacancy means it's still vastly overpriced,
Alternative theory: As WFH improves, WFH will increasingly mean "Work from Ukraine," "Work from India," and "Work from Ghana." It will be hard to justify SFO salaries.