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It's not a tautology. As an employee, taking a job somewhere that is not a tech hub means that when it's time for the next job, you probably have to move. Movin
by superuser2 11y ago
It's not a tautology. As an employee, taking a job somewhere that is not a tech hub means that when it's time for the next job, you probably have to move. Moving cross country with the frequency that SV engineers hop between startups is a horrible way to live.
If, as an employer, you move somewhere that is not a tech hub, people who can get what they need from San Francisco won't follow you.
You could in principle have a tech hub somewhere else, but there's a major synchronization problem there, and more pressingly anywhere you put a large number of high income earners is going to see rents rise sharply, at least in the short term, and people who live there don't want that. So it's not necessarily going to be any better than SF.
- noobermin 11y ago>There's a major synchronization problem I think the "having to move for your next job" makes sense, but what is this major synchronization problem you are talking about? Could you expand upon this?
- superuser2 11y agoThe major SV/SF tech companies and employees aren't all going to decide to move to Omaha on the same day. For a new city to become a tech hub, some people have to take the risk of living in a non-tech-hub city for a few years while it becomes one (and if it doesn't, well, sucks for them).
- noobermin 11y agoSounds like you meant something closer to "equilibrating" instead of synchronizing, at least that makes more sense for me as a scientist.