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A surprising number of these folks in the SFBA are willing to relocate.
by JMTQp8lwXL 6y ago
A surprising number of these folks in the SFBA are willing to relocate.
- ponker 6y agoSurprising? They're without income in a city where one-bedrooms rent for $4,000 at a time of low labor demand. Not sure what's surprising about being willing to relocate.
- hn_throwaway_99 6y agoSurprising? When you're unemployed during a major economic downturn lots of people would be willing to leave one of the most expensive cities in the country.
- legerdemain 6y agoNo, I think it is, in fact, somewhat interesting. I was at Uber until a couple of months ago and left for mostly unrelated reasons. A significant proportion of the people I worked with had 3-5 years of tenure at Uber, families, homes. Not people who could relocate easily, even if they wanted to. There's an obvious and boring explanation for the prevalence of "willing to move" on this list, and that is if the layoffs mostly hit recent and more junior hires. Another company I worked for had a significantly younger and more mobile workforce, and it wasn't uncommon for new hires to move to the bay area from across the country, and then relocate to another regional office or even overseas just as easily.
- nojito 6y agoMany of the people willing to relocate are <3 years out of school and have only worked at Uber for ~1 year
- karthikb 6y agoNot surprising in general, but given the reality that SF is the most tech-dense city in the world, it's an interesting observation that people perceive jobs to be scarce enough that the opportunity cost of leaving is worth more immediate employment.
- dmode 6y agoI filtered by NY and Pittsburgh and found the same ratio of people willing to relocate