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Yeah, but it's still a universal problem in high paying tech because their offices are in big cities (and sometimes expensive small cities). Editing to clarify
by clnq 4y ago
Yeah, but it's still a universal problem in high paying tech because their offices are in big cities (and sometimes expensive small cities).
Editing to clarify - by tech being centred around expensive cities I don’t mean that tech offices are in urban areas rather than suburban. I mean that the large tech companies generally are in cities and towns that are more expensive than many other cities and towns.
For example, there are cheap and pleasant places big tech workers have moved to during WFH times instead of staying in the Silicon Valley-SF region of CA. But some of these towns don’t have a big office building in sight.
- ghaff 4y ago>universal problem in high paying tech It's by no means universal. A lot of tech is out in suburban office parks, some of which admittedly has its own traffic problems, e.g. Silicon Valley and suburban Washington DC.
- clnq 4y agoHmm, I didn’t express myself clearly. I edited my comment to clarify what I meant.
- berkes 4y agoIt's not "universal". Suburban city-planning is a US thing, almost exclusively (I'm told Canada follows suit). Most cities allow mixed commerce-living. Meaning there's offices, shops, factories in-between and below housing. Yet US suburban planning -by law- disallows offices (and shops and factories) to be mixed with housing. You are often literally not allowed to live close to work (or work close to your home). that isn't universal at all.