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Lyft is moving its customer service team to Nashville due to the cost of SF rent.

SFBA companies! Get it together! Learn to be remote teams. It makes you a better company in the end.

EDIT: And you're not slaving your employees by forcing them to spend so much of their income on the unnecessary expense of SFBA housing.

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Where I work (www.crystalknows.com) is based out of Nashville. I'm remote in Portland, ME (tons of good beer & restaurants) and I pay $1200/mo for a mortgage on a 2bedroom condo on the ocean. Just moved from Boston, and I'm saving a ton on living expenses. SF is the last place on earth I would move to.

I too am a remote worker, and I make an engineer salary while living in low cost-of-living US locals. You can live very well if you're not blowing your salary on rent in SF.

>Learn to be remote teams. It makes you a better company in the end.

Does it? I hear everyone on here say that more work should be remote but I haven't seen any studies that show that workers can be just as productive when not in the office. I would assume they would be.

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