Save way more than $10K if you move to a no income tax state.
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I did some rudimentary digging to figure out how to optimize taxes in retirement. One approach was to have a place in a no-income tax state like WA or NV and then have a more expensive property in a low-property tax state like Hawaii that you spent less than six months a year in.
How are other people thinking about this?
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I know Google would be very similar to this. Long term, I think we will have more of a hybrid approach: Office/WFH some days.
I don’t see Google going full remote anytime soon.
This could benefit Sacramento or other cities. People can live in Sacramento and commute to BA 1/2 days a week.
Also traffic can improve a lot if a large number of people wfh。Less traffic can have a dramatic impact on home price.
Live in Sac, Work for Bay Area company - commute one or two day with your Tesla, Have a cabin / waterfront property in Tahoe. You are all set. Just follow @Elt1 , you will find money
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This can be replaced with live in say Pleasanton if you need to be in the office for 2 days a week. One day a week, you can still do Sac.
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3 days a week - buy a house in evergreen and help a brother out. 
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I’m just happy that if WFH takes off and traffic goes to normal levels, Gavin and his pals cannot tax me any more using the words such as ‘roads’,‘public transport’,‘bad air quality due to traffic’ yada yada. Or am I dreaming? 
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I won’t mind like this one for Pleasanton, what can you get in Evergreen? https://www.redfin.com/CA/Pleasanton/2890-Victoria-Ridge-Ct-94566/home/1902714
About the same price range in evergreen, but Pleasanton’s housing stock tends to be newer. Commuting to north San Jose, Santa Clara or future google campus in downtown SJ would be much easier from evergreen than from east bay.
Wants to cry looking at houses in Pleasanton and comparing to PA prices: https://www.redfin.com/CA/Pleasanton/2842-W-Ruby-Hill-Dr-94566/home/675968
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Your marginal state income tax is 12.3%?
Top 1%?
25% occupancy. What do the other 75% do? Oh right, they’ll work from home. There’s not enough office space available to distance and have everyone in the office. People realize distancing rules are healthier and safer. I doubt they go away quickly. That means we’ll have years of 75% of people working from home.
I find it ironic you were completely for shutting down the economy for an indeterminate amount of time. Yet, you think employees have to be in the office.
Possibly, short distance traffic will be replaced by long distance traffic leaving same number of cars on roads
Love Ruby Hills. Great prices, wineries, great restaurants and an hour closer to Tahoe. If I ever move back I would live there or Alamo. I was the engineer on several homes there. Be careful some were built on a lot of fill.
I don’t think employees have to be in the office. I am not boss of google or Facebook. I don’t make the rules. I am just an observer. Either a company is 100% remote or ambitious employees will find it disadvantageous to their career to phone it in.
This pandemic will go away one day. Short term people will work from home. Longer term, say 24 months out, especially after we have a working vaccine, will we still have the social distancing rules? I don’t think so. Don’t read too much into short term trends.
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Buy at lower 
price those nearer to job centers next Spring 