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It's funny because this article thinks we can find jobs outside of cities...
by ixtli 9y ago
It's funny because this article thinks we can find jobs outside of cities...
- chrisseaton 9y ago> It's funny because this article thinks we can find jobs outside of cities... But it's an article about living in suburbs... suburbs of cities... where the jobs are. You can catch a train (or take a company bus or drive in the US I guess) from a suburb into the city for your job. That's what suburbs are.
- ghaff 9y agoAnd that's even assuming the jobs are actually in the city. While tech jobs in urban cores have increased in recent years, in a lot of places the majority are still out in the exurbs and suburbs--including in the case of the Bay Area. (The difference being that in regions like Massachusetts, housing prices are a lot more reasonable in many towns outside of the urban core.)
- notfromhere 9y agoI mean that's kinda a given about the Bay Area. Outside of SF, its just suburbia on steroids
- ixtli 9y agoI did exactly this for a year and my quality of life suffered so badly that I nearly had a panic attack so i just sucked it up and moved into the city. I mean look: I like living in the city but when I consider that I could eject and live in the country i continue to encounter the reality that i would be disconnected from the majority of my community and the most interesting and well paying jobs.
- chrisseaton 9y agoI can't understand why people are on this site are so allergic to the suburbs. What is it that made you have such a bad quality of life that you had a panic attack? Why can't you have a job in the city if you live in the suburbs?
- toasterlovin 9y agoLong commutes are extremely stressful for some people. Myself included.
- chrisseaton 9y agoI used to quite like my commute for a couple of hours a day - I used to have breakfast, read, work, or even just snooze. It became good quality time actually. And who said anything about a long commute? You can live in the suburbs and be just 15 minutes from the city.
- derekp7 9y agoNot all cities have lack of surrounding infrastrastructure that make it impossible to reasonably commute into the city for work. Chicago, for one, has a good rail system that reaches into a large number of surrounding areas (about 40 - 60 miles out), and also has decent roads that take between 30 - 45 minutes to commute in from a number of areas. And a lot of jobs here are "close" to the city, but not in it (due to land for large campuses being cheaper).
- s2g 9y ago> also has decent roads that take between 30 - 45 minutes to commute in from a number of areas. So intolerably long.
- francisofascii 9y agoIt is possible to find a suburban job and live in that suburban area, but if you want to leave or the company leaves, you will either have to move or have a long commute somewhere else.
- ixtli 9y agoAh yes this is a good point that I forgot: living in NYC i enjoy the huge privilege of being able to get another job in my industry immediately and very local to whatever box i happen to be living in at the time.
- RhysU 9y agoYou mean you pay for the privilege, as do I. We pay to take less employment risk.
- ixtli 9y agoI wonder about this. I definitely pay more but (and this is a bit hand-wavey, i admit) it seems like the opportunity i'd be wasting if i lived anywhere else is FAR greater than the insane rent.
- ryandrake 9y agoI moved from Nowhereville, USA to the Bay Area for that exact trade off: higher cost of living but lower career risk. Here, if things don’t work out with my employer I take 6 months or so and find another job locally. In Nowhereville, I’m likely moving to a different state if I need another job.