In 1999 I went to work in M&A for a big 4 accounting firm in the Silicon Vally doing IPOs for "development stage" corporations.

I currently work in B2B sales for a Silicon Valley Fortune 500 tech company.

We live in North Utah county close to silicon slopes area.

Instead of being set financially for life (if they had managed the money properly), the couple had to go back to work.During the dot-com era of the late 1990s, Silicon Valley was minting five new millionaires a day (according to The San Jose Mercury News).

Jerry Brown relaxed the state laws to build these structures in early 2018 and San Jose, along with many other cities, have relaxed those rules further.The Silicon Valley Housing Trust is a non-profit hosting an information day on Saturday, Feb 2 for those interested in building an ADU.

CA is a lot more expensive than other places ut the appreciation is phenomenal.I moved from Westwood, CA to Silicon Valley in '99.

During the dot-com bubble, some Wall Street analysts left their jobs at some of the elite banks for a startup job in Silicon Valley.

The engineers put up with it because jobs in Silicon Valley were hard to get after The Great Recession.

Basically you just put in a bunch of silicone around the sink and put it around the hole cut into the counter from underneath.

Purchase price: $200,000 Cash invested: $60,000 Junior bedroom/Studio condo in the heart of Silicon Valley. 440sf currently renting at $1,800/mo. 2 miles from Apple's "Spaceship" campus HQ.