4 ms·
You could very well be right; I was just putting together a gut feeling about the HN community and anecdotal knowledge of where my coworkers in the industry liv
by clipsy 4y ago
You could very well be right; I was just putting together a gut feeling about the HN community and anecdotal knowledge of where my coworkers in the industry live.
- kortilla 4y agoMost of the people who work for large tech companies in the Bay Area live in the suburbs.
- clipsy 4y agoI've been working remotely since long before the pandemic; perhaps my experience at remote-friendly companies has skewed my experience, as only a minority of my coworkers are in the bay area. I'd say the mode for my coworkers is living in a smaller/cheaper (non-SF, non-NY) urban center. Could just be a fluke, though; it's not as though the sample size is particularly large.
- nonethewiser 4y agoI doubt most HNers actually grew up in large cities. I would guess most were in the burbs or smaller cities (although they may be in large cities now). Just given the demographic distribution of cities (younger, less kids) and the urbanization trends over time (was more distributed 20+ years ago).
- clipsy 4y agoAh, that's a fair point! I meant I was unusual in that I live in a suburb now, not that it was unusual to grow up in a suburb.