Bay Area Tech Workers Consider Moving to Greener Pastures

Facebook employee Mohamed Almari works from his laptop decorated in various Facebook stickers at the company's corporate headquarters campus in Menlo Park, Calif., on Oct. 23, 2019. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—After months of work-from-home, tech companies are considering making that the norm. And it seems many employees don’t plan to stick around in the expensive Bay Area if they can work from another location. 

Ravi Hott, who works as a senior database administrator in Silicon Valley, can’t afford to buy a house in the area, so he rents an apartment. He told The Epoch Times that if his company allows continued remote work, he’ll probably move to Vermont, where “I can live like a king.”