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This is the most amusing part of this whole article, as someone who moved from Chicago to the bay a year and a half ago. If midwesterners are hungry enough and

• lsc 9y ago
  Fundamentally, I don't care how "hungry" my technical staff is. (I mean, I want to see to it that they are well fed, but if I'm hiring technical staff... their ability to "hustle" isn't something I am selecting for.) I know there are good technical people other places- I hired a few to work remote when I was doing my own thing, and in the last year, two of my friends have moved from here to cheaper pastures. it's just... well, the density of nerds here is incredible. If you can pay local rates, you will almost certainly be able to find someone who doesn't have to move. In the midwest, I think that most areas, there are very few local employers; if you want to jump jobs, you often have to move. That means that as an employer, if you want to hire someone on-site, a lot of times you need to talk someone into moving. I personally live within walking distance of internap, Intel, drobo, palo alto networks, EMC and tens of smaller companies that could hire me as a sysadmin or a network admin or even as my current specialty, an EDA administrator. A ten minute drive widens the field greatly. This density goes both ways; it means that an employee can easily find an employer without moving, and the other side of that is that an employer can easily find an employee. This means, I think, that people tend to work at jobs that they match with better, because there's a much smaller cost to switching to that other job that fits better.