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Also, I'd like to point out that if you have a family, and have settled into a sort of more standard family life, SV is great - if you can afford it. If you're
by crushcrashcrush 8y ago
Also, I'd like to point out that if you have a family, and have settled into a sort of more standard family life, SV is great - if you can afford it. If you're a young(er) single person, my god literally anywhere else is better to live.
For example - if you're on Tinder, use the "passport" feature to set your profile to NYC for two days. Let me know the number of matches you get.
- xiphias2 8y agoI was living in Zurich and before Tinder I had no idea how much difference can my sexual value be between cities. I really wish I knew that my dating life would have been so much easier if I move to NYC.
- crushcrashcrush 8y agoDating in Silicon Valley is legitimately awful. It's staggeringly bad.
- jonathankoren 8y agoI often think back to this obviously first coffee date I came across one weekend at Red Rock in Mountain View. The woman came in, she's dressed nice, walks in with confidence, and finds her date, who is dressed like a schlub wearing a faded free company t-shirt, and couldn't even bother to comb his hair. If I was her, there wouldn't have been a second date.
- crushcrashcrush 8y agoOh. My. God. I thought I was the only one. This will probably go over most heads here, but man - the way people DRESS, particularly men, is staggeringly bad. Hysterically awful. I've seen this same situation before as well. Here's a hint - don't wear anything with your company logo on it unless you're at a company event. You're welcome.
- etrautmann 8y agoYou're not necessarily wrong, just condescending. I'm still going to wear sneakers, t-shirts, and a puffy because it's dramatically more comfortable than dress shirts and leather shoes. I can know I'm dressing poorly and still choose to do it... company logo is another story - that one escapes me
- crushcrashcrush 8y agoNothing wrong with sneakers and jeans + a tee provided they fit and the sneakers aren’t “dad sneakers” read: White new balances or god forbid saucony or brooks running shoes.
- notacoward 8y agoThat seems a bit superficial. Both Saucony and Brooks make very good running shoes. It's not great to wear good running shoes during the day, but I'd look more askance at people wearing faux-athletic shoes that aren't really good for anything other than sitting in an office.
- happytoexplain 8y agoCan somebody give some additional perspective on this? I'm flabbergasted by how snobbish and shallow this post appears to be - but perhaps I just can't picture what kind of clothing a person has to wear to deserve such treatment? *Disclaimer: I have no experience with silicon valley.
- jonathankoren 8y agoDeserve what treatment? No one was being rude, quite the contrary. But impressions matter, and no one deserves a second date. Or conversely, no one deserves a bad date, let alone a second.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoI feel like that problem is hardly unique to SV, though it also seems likely that interpersonal relationships and the SV cultural mindset are fundamentally incompatible.
- watwut 8y agoArticle seems to suggest SV does not work well for families and children.