It isn't about choosing where to live. If that were the case, Alaska would just make everyone move to Gig Harbor. The argument is that it is another extremely expensive place to live. There are tons of more affordable areas in the Bay Area aside from San Francisco. The comparison doesn't hold water. If we are talking about somebody's willingness to move to a base, I could see the argument of SAN over SFO. I am simply talking about right now, and in the future, finding locals to fill those slots is going to be challenging. A new hire with no ties to any base we have, could move local to SFO just as easily as SAN. The premise here is that DM doesn't want commuters and we have to fill a base with locals. I already think this will be a problem. There are enough senior CAs who either live close enough or will commute. I think the FO side will be a problem. Or at the very least, will take FOs from LAX to SAN and create vacancies in LAX. Continuing to interview PNW residents and slapping them in other bases is not gonna solve staffing in SAN.