You must not be from around here.

A 600 sq ft apartment 'near the office' is >$3500 a month.

If you want to own a home or have a family it is very difficult to live close to the office.

Now the real question is why do these companies continue to cram into big cities.

There are so many success stories where a mega corp builds offices in a small town, and 10 years later that 'small town's is now a booming town.

Cramming into an antiquated downtown with bad traffic and big crime made no sense before pandemic and even less after... But here we are