They Got Rich Off Uber and Lyft. Then They Moved to Low-Tax States.

Many tech millennial millionaires said they were relieved to be out of San Francisco, which has gotten increasingly expensive, crowded and filled with carbon-copy tech bros who drone on about their start-ups. They talked about how they were resetting their lives, how stressed they had been in tech and how they were getting over burnout. They talked about the tech parties they had attended and complained that the celebrations revolved around work.

?It got monotonous,? said Nathan Rodriguez, 30, one of Lyft?s first 50 employees, who last year traded San Francisco for Austin. ?I got tired of the keeping-up-with-the-Joneses feeling you have in that kind of environment.?

In Austin, where his wife has family, he also bought a home, which Zillow lists as sold for $620,000. It is in a rapidly growing neighborhood where small ranch-style homes are being replaced with multistory condos, packed two per lot.
 
I like how they said it wasn't about the tax savings yet they didn't move to state that had state income tax.  As they saying goes....if someone says it's not about the money, it's always about the money.  haha
 
Good for them. For every millienel who earned millions there's hundreds more who slaved away long hours only to have the startup go under.
 
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