Why do so many of us live by our offices?? I don’t get it. We travel so much —- why don’t we live on the beach?? Miami? Clearwater beach? San Diego?

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What I want my life to look like... white picket fences with beach sunsets. Ahhhh it’s so dreamy!

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I live in Marina del Rey, on the beach, right next to Venice beach in Los Angeles. It's my choice, I love living here. If I were to go to my office location, it'd be a 20 min drive, but it's not necessary, I work from home on Fridays. I'm 15 minutes to LAX which means I avoid all "LA traffic" it's the best of both worlds, I cannot think of anywhere better to live. It's definitely not unique to my firm, I've worked for 3 firms now, and my current firm I boomerang'd back to. So, no, it's not unique, I just say at the beginning, "I'm out of the LA office" and they never dispute that, they make it happen. Although just out of business school I was hired into the DC office (2 firms ago) then after 11.5 months, I relocated to Los Angeles. It caused a lot of drama, but I worked through it and made it happen.

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More than 40 percent of deloitte partners operate out of Miami

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What's stopping you? If you're at Deloitte, you could align to San Diego, Orange County, or Los Angeles. Plenty of options available, and that's just Southern California.

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I live closer to the beach than I do the office. #tampabay

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Travel weekly, I'm a manager. It's a 90 minute drive to the airport.

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Because you have to live within 90 mins of your office

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I do! 🙋🏽

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PwC gives you a hard time about. They want everyone near the nyc office

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^^^ @M1 How’d you do it? Do you think it’s unique to your firm?

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P1- uh, then why do we have all these “markets”? Just cuz you’re a sheeple doesn’t make it the firm’s fault.

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^^^Good for you @D3!! My firm doesn’t have my practice in Tampa / San Diego / Miami office.

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Overarching question remains. Why do we live by our offices? And how often do folks actually make it in to your home office?

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Clearwater beach was the second option that came to mind? Smh

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I live in the mountains in Colorado (Vail area). PwC has no problem with this.

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That’s great!! Love it. That’s my #aspiration. Just wondering why this isn’t more prevalent in our field. Happy for you!

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Miami and San Diego have offices.... 🙄

@P2 That’s awesome. Which level?

P2 - do you travel much? Seems like that would be hard due to airport

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