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That's a 5–6-hour drive so I assume you would have gone home for weekends and had a room in S. SF? That's about how far the Bay Area is from where I'm at, and I too have considered some positions in that area. I did the math, and I could afford to rent a room and all of the additional expenses and still come out ahead. I've still got 25 years or so before I get to consider retirement, so it's an open-ended idea, but as of yet I haven't gotten too serious about it.
That was a me being facetious. It would take a court order to get me to live in Bakersfield.