It's getting much tougher to pull this off - I recently had an offer for a cherry government job but it was in southern California. The salary, while competiti

It's getting much tougher to pull this off - I recently had an offer for a cherry government job but it was in southern California. The salary, while competitive for most locations, would've required me to be independently wealthy to live within an hour of the office in order to buy even a modest home.