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If you're single or a couple dating, love tech, move to SV. Don't deprive yourself of that experience. Hire a professional relocator to find your apartment. T
by aantix 7y ago
If you're single or a couple dating, love tech, move to SV. Don't deprive yourself of that experience.
Hire a professional relocator to find your apartment. That's what we did. Company paid for it.
Every third person you will meet is an engineer, generally working on something cool. Everyone has ideas as to how you can do things "better" - from tech to processes to politics.
You can attend all sorts of product launch parties, meetups, company socializers. So many that it's impossible to go to them all.
You can meet many of the founders and engineers that you read from on HN. Either they live in SF/Bay Area or end up visiting. Just tweet at them and ask.
I've never regretted those years.
The financial line gets much blurrier when we started having a family, along with the SF school system isn't that great.
But for tech culture, it was one of a kind. So. Much. Tech. And I loved every moment of it.
- rsync 7y ago"Every third person you will meet is an engineer, generally working on something cool. Everyone has ideas as to how you can do things "better" - from tech to processes to politics. ... You can attend all sorts of product launch parties, meetups, company socializers. So many that it's impossible to go to them all. ... You can meet many of the founders and engineers that you read from on HN. Either they live in SF/Bay Area or end up visiting. Just tweet at them and ask." I live in the SFBA for reasons other than tech/career but this has been a huge plus. It's very interesting and exciting to visit the major tech HQs and meet founders and engineers living and working here, etc. My favorite example of this was last year, 2018, when Twilio Signal was coincident with Litquake. I stayed in the city all week and talked shop with Twilio folks all day and went to talks/lectures about the evils of technology every evening :)