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Govt experience can translate well into Federal Sales and Solutions Engineering and Product Management. I've found ex-Govt engineers to be amazing salespeople, because they understand both the technical AND the organizational aspects in implementing technical projects.

Also, DC is much less wealthy than the Bay Area. The upper bound on salaries in the DMV is around $150-200k with 15-20 years of experience because of how prominent government employment is. It's a very solidly middle class feeling metropolitan area.

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The greater DC and Bay Area have the top 8 counties by median household income, and 13 of the top 20 counties. [0]

Sure, it's just a bunch of doctors (NIH), lobbyists, defense contractors and government lawyers that skew that towards only being upper middle class and probably not as many ultra high net worth people, but it's extremely affluent.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-income_countie...

That's a fair point. DMV definetly skews top 10%, but I feel the affordability skew doesn't feel as crazy compared to the Bay Area. At least there's plenty of building occurring in DC and NoVA that helps keep prices manageable at the moment.

The rent is too damn high. Not quite NYC/SF levels, but it's close in most of the DMV.