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The Bay Area is so desirable because it where all the tech companies are located and the tech companies are there because it were all the tech workers are. It's
by leakybit 10y ago
The Bay Area is so desirable because it where all the tech companies are located and the tech companies are there because it were all the tech workers are. It's an unbreakable cycle.
- raldi 10y agoFor others (including me) high density is itself one of the key attractors. I enjoy the big city lifestyle, with subways and museums and economies of scale and millions of potential new friends.
- johan_larson 10y agoI keep waiting for one of the major tech companies to get fed up with what it has to pay staff in SV, and start moving jobs somewhere cheaper. And pretty much anywhere is cheaper. Even the Wall Street banks eventually moved their back-room staff to places cheaper than Manhattan. Apparently New Jersey was a popular destination.