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This article is strange to me. The conclusion it tries to get you to draw is that the Bay Area is expensive to live at so techies are now starting to leave. The

This article is strange to me. The conclusion it tries to get you to draw is that the Bay Area is expensive to live at so techies are now starting to leave. The data they draw this conclusion from is search data for jobs. The number 1 place on that list; New York City. So people are leaving SF Bay Area to go to NYC, because it is cheaper?

yolesaber 11y ago
NYC, in my experience, is cheaper, yes. We just hired someone who left Apple to come out east because they were being priced out. Obviously NYC can be ridiculously expensive and the real estate market is annoying to navigate (broker's fees, wtf) but there is more housing stock available here, with decent-to-great public transportation that makes living in the outer boroughs pretty convenient. Brooklyn, Queens, and Jersey City (NYC metro area) are all much cheaper than SF. Even parts of Manhattan above 59th st are quite affordable.
inmyunix 11y ago
I'm guessing NYC is at the top simply because it hosts the greatest number of opportunities. it's the rest of the list that's telling. the article also points out that the age 30-40 cohort represents the greatest portion of searches, which could indicate a natural course of settling down with family etc. [which further proves to me that suburbs are not dead. it's merely been the vocal majority (millennials) blabbering on about big city living and how they'll never do this or that, only to hit the family creation stage in life and realize they were naive to think in such extreme absolutes]
- jiaweihli 11y ago
  I don't think this is a millenial problem, this is true of the young adult population in every generation. One trend I've noticed is that those who grow up in suburbs tend to prefer cities in their 20s, and those who grew up in cities tend to prefer urbanized suburbs.

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This article is strange to me. The conclusion it tries to get you to draw is that the Bay Area is expensive to live at so techies are now starting to leave. The

by Negative1 11y ago

yolesaber 11y ago
NYC, in my experience, is cheaper, yes. We just hired someone who left Apple to come out east because they were being priced out. Obviously NYC can be ridiculously expensive and the real estate market is annoying to navigate (broker's fees, wtf) but there is more housing stock available here, with decent-to-great public transportation that makes living in the outer boroughs pretty convenient. Brooklyn, Queens, and Jersey City (NYC metro area) are all much cheaper than SF. Even parts of Manhattan above 59th st are quite affordable.
inmyunix 11y ago
I'm guessing NYC is at the top simply because it hosts the greatest number of opportunities. it's the rest of the list that's telling. the article also points out that the age 30-40 cohort represents the greatest portion of searches, which could indicate a natural course of settling down with family etc. [which further proves to me that suburbs are not dead. it's merely been the vocal majority (millennials) blabbering on about big city living and how they'll never do this or that, only to hit the family creation stage in life and realize they were naive to think in such extreme absolutes]
- jiaweihli 11y ago
  I don't think this is a millenial problem, this is true of the young adult population in every generation. One trend I've noticed is that those who grow up in suburbs tend to prefer cities in their 20s, and those who grew up in cities tend to prefer urbanized suburbs.