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Tel Aviv, Israel. Perfect weather and beaches. Beautiful girls. Amazing tech companies and funding. Unbelievable nightlife.

by jraby3 10y ago

avmich 10y ago
I'd add, the mindset is similar to small startup culture in SV. Great place, with unique quirks :) like periodical bombardments from Gaza strip...
siscia 10y ago
Cost of living?
- josh_fyi 10y ago
  Expensive. Not as bad as San Francisco!
hackathonguy 10y ago
Tel Aviv is fantastic - great vibes, good weather year-round, awesome tech scene. Cost of living is relatively high - a 1 br apartment in a central location can rent for $1500. High salaries offset that, though.
carlob 10y ago
What about the politics?
- kelvin0 10y ago
  I hear the settlements are beautiful this time of the year. Seriously though, it looks like an interesting place and quite polarized in many ways, I might be wrong.
  - partisan 10y ago
    I don't have a dog in this fight, but why wouldn't this apply to the US, for example? Sunny with a chance of drone strike and subsequent white wash, for example. Have you followed the elections lately? Or the riots in various cities? Or the record-breaking murder rate in Chicago. Seems weird to me to bring this up here.
- josh_fyi 10y ago
  There are politics like anywhere, but nothing unusual.
solatic 10y ago
Was looking for this. Beaches, babes, beer (including craft options), sunny and warm nine months out of the year, flat and easily bikeable, nature and history are relatively close, relatively fast Internet for relatively cheap, booming tech scene with high salaries relative to the local cost of living, work-life balance when everything shuts down on Saturdays, great nightlife options, great food with a great sport/running/fitness subculture, most people speak English at least proficiently if not fluently. What else does a developer in his 20's and 30's want? If I had to complain about something it's that I find Israelis to be relatively clique-ish, the postal service sucks, and the light rail isn't finished yet. OK, so there are no utopias. Tel Aviv is a greatly underpublicized and underrated gem of a city, probably due to politics, which is sad because politics/the conflict has virtually no effect on day-to-day life here, and because it's difficult to get a work visa if you aren't Jewish, but that's slowly changing since the army and academia are only producing about half the amount of qualified/credentialed/experienced labor the tech sector needs every year and it's now impacting the growth of what's now the most important sector of the economy, and both are already relatively huge compared to other Western countries, so it's not like the government could expand the military or academia further in order to get more labor, and it's starting to warm to the idea of allowing more non-Jewish immigration to compensate.
flukus 10y ago
From a quick google search it seems like the surf is pretty flat and not suitable for surfing, is that correct?

Tel Aviv, Israel. Perfect weather and beaches. Beautiful girls. Amazing tech companies and funding. Unbelievable nightlife.

by jraby3 10y ago

Tel Aviv, Israel. Perfect weather and beaches. Beautiful girls. Amazing tech companies and funding. Unbelievable nightlife.

avmich 10y ago

I'd add, the mindset is similar to small startup culture in SV. Great place, with unique quirks :) like periodical bombardments from Gaza strip...

siscia 10y ago

Cost of living?

josh_fyi 10y ago
Expensive. Not as bad as San Francisco!

hackathonguy 10y ago

Tel Aviv is fantastic - great vibes, good weather year-round, awesome tech scene. Cost of living is relatively high - a 1 br apartment in a central location can rent for $1500. High salaries offset that, though.

carlob 10y ago

What about the politics?

kelvin0 10y ago
I hear the settlements are beautiful this time of the year. Seriously though, it looks like an interesting place and quite polarized in many ways, I might be wrong.
- partisan 10y ago
  I don't have a dog in this fight, but why wouldn't this apply to the US, for example? Sunny with a chance of drone strike and subsequent white wash, for example. Have you followed the elections lately? Or the riots in various cities? Or the record-breaking murder rate in Chicago. Seems weird to me to bring this up here.
josh_fyi 10y ago
There are politics like anywhere, but nothing unusual.

solatic 10y ago

Was looking for this. Beaches, babes, beer (including craft options), sunny and warm nine months out of the year, flat and easily bikeable, nature and history are relatively close, relatively fast Internet for relatively cheap, booming tech scene with high salaries relative to the local cost of living, work-life balance when everything shuts down on Saturdays, great nightlife options, great food with a great sport/running/fitness subculture, most people speak English at least proficiently if not fluently. What else does a developer in his 20's and 30's want? If I had to complain about something it's that I find Israelis to be relatively clique-ish, the postal service sucks, and the light rail isn't finished yet. OK, so there are no utopias. Tel Aviv is a greatly underpublicized and underrated gem of a city, probably due to politics, which is sad because politics/the conflict has virtually no effect on day-to-day life here, and because it's difficult to get a work visa if you aren't Jewish, but that's slowly changing since the army and academia are only producing about half the amount of qualified/credentialed/experienced labor the tech sector needs every year and it's now impacting the growth of what's now the most important sector of the economy, and both are already relatively huge compared to other Western countries, so it's not like the government could expand the military or academia further in order to get more labor, and it's starting to warm to the idea of allowing more non-Jewish immigration to compensate.

flukus 10y ago

From a quick google search it seems like the surf is pretty flat and not suitable for surfing, is that correct?