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> Your intuition is shaped by your inexperience of the reality of the situation Yes, largely. Though, frankly the grass IS greener on the other side in my case
by theflyinghorse 7y ago
> Your intuition is shaped by your inexperience of the reality of the situation
Yes, largely. Though, frankly the grass IS greener on the other side in my case. I am in the middle of nowhere in Canada and my window into the tech world at large is github and YC.
> 30 year bay area veteran here
Do you believe you would have the same opportunities today if you did not spend time in the Bay (didn't get experience, network, insider knowledge)?
- miker64 7y agoNot the poster, but also an ex-bay area tech. The amount to which I was steeped in tech due to being able to do things like dumpster dive for computer hardware in the 80s definitely affected my career path, but _that is not a thing anymore_. And you are already interested, so having a seed of 'what's that?' isn't so necessary. I've been out of the bay for 5 years, and worked there for almost 20. The opportunities I had were about a time and place, and _today_ that place is far more online than physically based. If you can make it to the bay, it is a wonderful place, full of tech and culture and people from all over, but it is not the only place with all that. It's also hella expensive. I think the Bay's time as _the_ place to be is over, but it's still _a_ place to be. Good luck!