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I'm here and I feel things are turning around. The brain drain has receded and turned into an influx. As a tech worker who grew up in this city and have a love/
by yardie 5y ago
I'm here and I feel things are turning around. The brain drain has receded and turned into an influx. As a tech worker who grew up in this city and have a love/hate relationship with it I fail to see what the new migrants see in Miami.
If you grew up down here and know the history of South Florida it's just a history of tech failing to launch since WWII. We have a giant runway in the middle of the Everglades for supersonic jets and space craft, and that fizzled. We have a decommissioned rocket plant and missile silos in Everglades National Park. The IBM PC was invented here, but IBM shipped that whole division to North Carolina. Miami could have a been a Silicon Valley when the valley got created during the Cold War but we lacked the leadership and funding.
So here we are trying to become the capital of crypto which I feel still won't make us another Silicon Valley but another Las Vegas.
- iskander 5y ago>I'm here and I feel things are turning around. The brain drain has receded and turned into an influx. I moved to Miami in 2017, couldn't find any kind of interesting work in machine learning or genomics. I started the machine learning meetup, which did end up with an enthusiastic but inexperienced community. My friend also moved to Miami at the same time and the only interesting graphics related jobs in the whole area were in Magic Leap. The startup scene was anemic and superficial. People we met who had deep technical skills all had one foot out the door, bound for Austin, SF, Durham, New York, &c. Eventually we both left and now live in Durham.