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People love to point out the problems in that area and say SV will evaporate. I just moved from sf to a city that’s in the top 3 for venture capital. The job o
by circles_for-day 8y ago
People love to point out the problems in that area and say SV will evaporate. I just moved from sf to a city that’s in the top 3 for venture capital.
The job opportunities, talent, networks, and standards of code here are so much lower I wouldn’t have believed it if somebody had told me.
Maybe some startups are leaving but I’d move back if I had a startup. It’s a lot of small ponds out here
- hamburglar1 8y agoWhat city? How are you measuring standards of code?
- circles_for-day 8y agoThe city is mentioned in the above list. It’s much more livable. I’m measuring code quality by asking questions to interview candidates for a variety of positions. I ask about how their current and past jobs work, what they’d change, and how they’d architect X. My coworkers’ opinions and previous code are another indicator. Disclaimers- I’m not any kind of prodigy or in the upper echelons of engineering, but the standards here are so low even I can tell. This is also a fairly high profile company for the area.
- JumpCrisscross 8y agoPower structures shift in recessions. The political and economic seeds of a shift are being planted, by outgoing migration, investment and political support. These things have a habit of slowly drifting before coming to a loud succession of socioeconomic bangs within the months following a recession.
- joering2 8y agoInteresting. Can u elaborate further? What will be end result??
- bitexploder 8y agoProbably a moderate recession. SV will still be the place for startups, but it's costs have reached a rather high and probably unsustainable level.
- nervousvarun 8y agoAssuming you stayed in the US, the top 5 cities are: SF, San Jose, NYC, Boston, and LA. https://www.citylab.com/life/2017/10/venture-capital-concentration/539775/ https://www.citylab.com/life/2017/10/venture-capital-concent... Gotta think there's more than small ponds in those cities.
- aninteger 8y agoReplace LA with Seattle.
- um_ya 8y agoAlso Denver and Austin
- vasilipupkin 8y agoSeattle has the wildfires that are just going to get worse and worse due to climate change. https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-wildfires-burn-miles-away-smog-blankets-the-northwest-1535535001 https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-wildfires-burn-miles-away-sm... wonder what specifically downvoters are not liking about this factual comment. It's relevant for quality of life. It's likely that quality of life in Seattle will get worse over time due to increased wildfires causing unhealthy air. All things being equal, fewer people should want to move there because of that.
- tjr225 8y agoThe smoke has been going on for 2, arguably 3 years. That isn't enough data to conclude that it will be a persistent issue, let alone that it will continually get worse. Even if we consider that global warming is an issue, cooler and wetter weather patterns could and probably will, given the history of the weather here, emerge. But sure, go ahead and be an alarmist - I don't want people to move here either.
- vasilipupkin 8y agohttps://www.dw.com/en/how-climate-change-is-increasing-forest-fires-around-the-world/a-19465490 https://www.dw.com/en/how-climate-change-is-increasing-fores... 2-3 years of worst air quality ever? why would I want to live in a place like that? why would anyone? my argument is, forecasts related to climate science is that these issues are likely to get worse over time
- Finnucane 8y agoNo one is saying SV is going to evaporate. It's just kind of absurd, really, to think that it can contain the whole industry, or that it should even try. There's still plenty of underutilized space in the country. We don't all have to crowd into the same few cities. edited for: typing before coffee.
- MrEfficiency 8y ago>standards of code here are so much lower What do you mean?
- redisman 8y agoExtrapolating from a tiny data set?