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Yea I found this a very weird thing to say, as engineering talent was a huge reason for choosing New York, and is a resource that New jersey does not have in an
by jackconnor 8y ago
Yea I found this a very weird thing to say, as engineering talent was a huge reason for choosing New York, and is a resource that New jersey does not have in anywhere near the same abundance.
I am curious where they would've chosen had subsidies actually been illegal, as this author says we should do. My guess is that they would've ended up in, you guessed it, New York and Virginia, regardless.
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- Hypx 8y agoI find that very hard to believe given the close proximity of NJ to NY. In particular, Newark is literally just across the river from New York City.
- lowercased 8y agoOn top of that, how many people working in NYC actually commute in from NJ? Meaning... they're actually living in NJ in the first place.
- tarboreus 8y agoYou actually are wrong about this. No one here want to work in NJ. Few young people in the city keep cars. People would scratch their heads if you told them you were working out there. Might be just a psychological thing. but it's real. I wouldn't look for jobs in NJ unless they dropped into my lap.
- lowercased 8y agoi was responding to this idea to amazon located in NYC because that's where the engineers/workers are at. If there's actually more in NJ, locating there would have meant those jobs would have just dropped in your lap. But I don't have specific numbers on commuters from NJ, and suspect their decision was based on more than just staff availability.
- philwelch 8y agoWhere do you live and work? I live and work in Seattle, and although I wouldn't rule it out, I would prefer not to cross Lake Washington to work in Bellevue even though it's technically closer to me than certain parts of Seattle that I regularly visit. Boundaries and regional identities have sometimes irrational emotional impacts. Also, NJ is very close to NY by the standards of everywhere in America other than NY. Density and urbanization affect our perceptions of distance: a famous representation of this is "View of the World from 9th Avenue" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_of_the_World_from_9th_Avenue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_of_the_World_from_9th_Ave...)
- weliketocode 8y agoAre you an nyc local? There absolutely is a premium placed for companies based in nyc. Companies in Newark, Hoboken, etc all start at a major disadvantage competing for talent.
- lkrubner 8y agoAs an example, WalMart has put together a new lab that is meant to compete with Amazon. A talent agent called me up and said, "Hey, the team at WalMart is paying well, base salary of $210,000, cutting edge technology, are you interested?" I asked where is it? They said New Jersey. I was like, no way. I'm not leaving New York and going out there. The commute is terrible.
- tootie 8y agoCommute to Jersey City or Hoboken is really fast. PATH is faster and more reliable than the subway.
- berbec 8y agoIf everything works perfectly, sure. Then there are the constant days like yesterday where you might as well walk
- weliketocode 8y agoI'm not sure if you're trying to be sarcastic, but Jet is based in Hoboken, and, from first-hand knowledge, they do pay above market for software engineers in order to compete with companies based in nyc.
- lkrubner 8y agoNo sarcasm. When I've had to work projects in New Jersey its been an ordeal. If I can make $180,000 in New York versus $210,000 in New Jersey, then I'm going to stick with New York. I put a high value on being able to walk home after work. My clients are typically between 14th street and 59th street. I live on 98th street. I often walk home after work. Sometimes the walk is the only exercise I get. I would not want to give it up.