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"Used to be"? I lived in South Florida for a long time. - 0 tech scene, besides a couple of wannabe startups , ans a few outliers. - Compensation is bad, taki
by masterof0 5y ago
"Used to be"? I lived in South Florida for a long time.
- 0 tech scene, besides a couple of wannabe startups , ans a few outliers.
- Compensation is bad, taking into account the raising real state prices.
- Most companies are on the services, tourism, insurance, medicine sector.
- Racism is rampant, very ironix as SoFlo workforce is mostly south american immigrants.
- High level of organized crime, shitty schools for kids (including mass shootings), very few things to do(besides the beach), and so on...
Btw this is arguably the best part of Florida, don't even mention central/north Florida. People moving there are chasing tax breaks( I will still take Texas any day). SoFlo is great to party, and that type of things, but as long term move, for a techie , is going to be rough. But to each their own, I met people there that really love it.
- seanmcdirmid 5y agoThis is sad because Boca Raton was where the PC was invented, and was also the place Microsoft and IBM worked on OS/2 together. When IBM moved all their R&D from Boca to Austin in the mid-90s, the scene was already fairly depressed, however.
- masterof0 5y agoYeah, I worked with ex-IBM and ex-DELL people over there. Boca is one of the best places to live in SoFlo, in my opinion.