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I'm a 25-year-old Google software engineer who left California when COVID-19 started — and now I'm unsure if I'll ever go back (as told to realjimmyim)

Justin Sullivan/GettyRonald is a 25-year-old Google engineer who made the move from his Santa Clara, California apartment back to his parents' house in Maryland.

Google employees were told they could work from home at the beginning of March when the first coronavirus cases were detected on the west coast of the US — days before the World Health Organization labeled Covid-19 as a pandemic on March 11. I originally moved from Arlington, Virginia to Santa Clara, California in May 2019 to start my job as a software engineer working in site reliability engineering. One of my favorite perks of working for Google has been the flexibility. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, I was able to set my own working hours and work remotely from a variety of offices across the country or from home when I needed to.

Leadership at Google has been really good about tempering expectations and has just asked that we be open and honest with our managers if we need to take some time away. For the most part, I think people have maintained a good attitude about it though, and everyone has been pretty accommodating to each person's unique circumstances.

With sky-high rent and the amenities of the Google office no longer available, living in the suburbs in Silicon Valley just didn't make sense to me. With the idle time to sit around and reflect, I started realizing that there wasn't much I was looking forward to doing in the Bay Area even once things reopened. I think once I realized that, I started to doubt if Silicon Valley was the right place for me to live, coronavirus or not.

I flew from San Jose Airport to BWI with a layover at LAX . LAX was the busiest of the three airports, but almost nothing was open, and people were all wearing face masks and practicing social distancing. On the plane, there were only 30 to 40 people and everyone had their own row. I've never had a row to myself on a plane before so it was pretty awesome to stretch out across the seats, but it's pretty hard to fall asleep with a face mask on.

When I got to BWI, only about half of the people were wearing masks, people were huddled together and hugging at baggage claim. I felt pretty disappointed, but I wasn't that surprised. Compared to California, Maryland had a pretty weak COVID-19 response, in my opinion, so it wasn't all that shocking to see people not taking it as seriously.

My mom works in the medical field so she still goes to work during the week. My dad is a consultant and is working from home, so most of my day-to-day interactions are with him. We've always butted heads on things and right now is no exception. We're currently arguing over when it's appropriate for our county in Maryland to reopen and why some businesses are essential and others are not. Regardless, I think they're glad to have someone else around the house.

Thankfully, my job is pretty well-suited to working from home. I work a lot with Googlers in London, so we were already used to conducting meetings over video chat, coordinating across time zones and the general asynchrony of remote work.

 

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Mikeymike4545 realjimmyim Wise choice.

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realjimmyim Why would anyone go back to cali?

realjimmyim Get a real job.

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