I moved from Philly to Seattle last year. I would also like to see a bigger tech firm in Philly. There is a great startup scene. The meetup scene is great, and

I moved from Philly to Seattle last year. I would also like to see a bigger tech firm in Philly. There is a great startup scene. The meetup scene is great, and the techie awards of best places to work were awesome. With University City providing good graduates. I mean Drexel, Upenn, Temple, Villanova, and just south University of Delaware. Then transit there was amazing. Philadelphia really feels like it has all the tools to be a great tech hub. http://www.techinmotionevents.com/blog/post/2017/05/04/the-2017-timmy-awards-what-to-expect http://www.techinmotionevents.com/blog/post/2017/05/04/the-2... That being said, I do not like what Amazon has done to Seattle. The culture, infrastructure housing, etc, etc. I have been hoping that they don't end up in Philadelphia. I feel one other big player, then more startups would be good. I guess put another way some new blood. As the east coast feels a bit old blood at times. As noted with the tax breaks to Comcast the other resident tech giant. The city needs more investment, not more tax cuts. There were issues with septa, schooling, public services, etc. I did a few stints at Comcast. It was a good place to work, but they weren't pushing the boundaries generally. There were some internal teams that were pushing tech. Contributions to OpenStack was very large. Some video encoding stuff, but I think that team was largely located elsewhere. To get to the more technically advanced stuff you needed several rounds there. Comcast in the meetup scene though was great. A number of directors and seniors presented at software as craft, devops, various code katas. I also knew a number of comcast employees going to the open philly code meetups. See for the cities open source stuff. https://github.com/CityOfPhiladelphia https://github.com/CityOfPhiladelphia There was a definite real estate boon when I left. With a number of areas being built up. But there was also gentrification issue as well. I lived down in Grey's Ferry area for a bit. The post office had been closed, and the local grocery store I think path mark as well. It went from a nice little area to a bunch of bodegas and boarded up houses. It was very hostile trying to force the people to leave to make room for improvement/rebuilding. I think something was going on around temple university. With subsidies being ended or modified. The city has it's problems for sure, but it's still a great place.