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> Probably not something very attractive to their employees... I keep hearing this meme and I'm skeptical. Far more people live outside the Bay Area than insid

> Probably not something very attractive to their employees... I keep hearing this meme and I'm skeptical. Far more people live outside the Bay Area than inside it. Are they all poor saps who are waiting to move to Silicon Valley but haven't yet figured out how?

Mediterraneo10 9y ago
> Far more people live outside the Bay Area than inside it. Are they all poor saps who are waiting to move to Silicon Valley but haven't yet figured out how? Usually when people claim that companies should try to recreate Silicon Valley in some cheaper "heartland of America", they are talking about flyover country. And demographically, many people still in flyover country may well be poor saps who haven't yet figured out how to move to the coasts, as statistics show a steady drain of young people to the coasts or at least a few major metropolitan areas in their part of America.
- humanrebar 9y ago
  Or maybe they're just moving to where the money and career- building jobs are. I think the causality is at least more complex than the aforementioned meme implies.
pault 9y ago
I see this attitude from new yorkers a lot. There are only two types of people: those that live in NY and those that failed to live in NY. Because they aspire to live in a coastal metropolis obviously everyone else does too.
Apocryphon 9y ago
Seriously? You're saying it's easy to afford to live in the Bay Area? That anyone can move to there?
deadmetheny 9y ago
>Are they all poor saps who are waiting to move to Silicon Valley but haven't yet figured out how? I hope this comment was not made in earnest, because this attitude is exactly why SV is a dumpster fire that I have no desire of taking part in. I'll continue living my poor ramshackle existence here in flyover country, thank you very much.
- humanrebar 9y ago
  I was being facetious about the "poor saps" to hint at the point you're making.
  - deadmetheny 9y ago
    Oh, good. Apologies for any hostility, that mindset is one a lot of people actually has and it really bothers me.

Mediterraneo10 9y ago

> Far more people live outside the Bay Area than inside it. Are they all poor saps who are waiting to move to Silicon Valley but haven't yet figured out how? Usually when people claim that companies should try to recreate Silicon Valley in some cheaper "heartland of America", they are talking about flyover country. And demographically, many people still in flyover country may well be poor saps who haven't yet figured out how to move to the coasts, as statistics show a steady drain of young people to the coasts or at least a few major metropolitan areas in their part of America.

humanrebar 9y ago
Or maybe they're just moving to where the money and career- building jobs are. I think the causality is at least more complex than the aforementioned meme implies.

pault 9y ago

I see this attitude from new yorkers a lot. There are only two types of people: those that live in NY and those that failed to live in NY. Because they aspire to live in a coastal metropolis obviously everyone else does too.

Apocryphon 9y ago

Seriously? You're saying it's easy to afford to live in the Bay Area? That anyone can move to there?

deadmetheny 9y ago

>Are they all poor saps who are waiting to move to Silicon Valley but haven't yet figured out how? I hope this comment was not made in earnest, because this attitude is exactly why SV is a dumpster fire that I have no desire of taking part in. I'll continue living my poor ramshackle existence here in flyover country, thank you very much.

humanrebar 9y ago
I was being facetious about the "poor saps" to hint at the point you're making.
- deadmetheny 9y ago
  Oh, good. Apologies for any hostility, that mindset is one a lot of people actually has and it really bothers me.