> If you're in the bay area, you should probably get out unless you're being paid enough to make it worth it (most aren't).

Agreed.

The number of twenty (or even thirty) -somethings I've met who have been trying to make it in the bay area for years and still don't have more than a few month's worth of expenses saved up worries me. Y'all are in an incredibly vulnerable position, and it's not going to get easier to make wages the older you get.