Crazy or Brilliant? Commuting From Las Vegas to San Francisco to Save Rent

Reddit user yourslice poses a humble question to all those San Francisco residents fed up with rising rents: Why not move to Las Vegas and commute back to the Bay Area?

There are probably better descriptions for this query than humble, but in the spirit of the thought-experiment, we’ll bite. Trusting yourslice’s numbers, the basic math goes like this: $1,012 in rent for a two-bedroom apartment within 10 miles of Las Vegas, $1,120 on four round-trip flights a week (working remotely on the fifth day), and $276 in ground transportation via BART once you land at SFO. Totaling those costs still comes out to less than the average monthly rent for a one-bedroom in San Francisco; via Reddit: