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Same. I've never lived in SF, but I convinced my wife to relocate to NYC so I could kick-start my tech career. We lived there for 4 years and then moved to FL i
by danielvaughn 3y ago
Same. I've never lived in SF, but I convinced my wife to relocate to NYC so I could kick-start my tech career. We lived there for 4 years and then moved to FL in 2018. I'm glad I had the experience of living there, but I'll never do it again. Nor will I ever move to SF, no matter how lucrative the offer.
- aplummer 3y agoThe Bay Area is one thing, but why not nyc?
- tshaddox 3y agoThe Bay Area is also a much bigger place than SF. Unless you’re familiar with a lot of the Bay Area it would be pretty unfortunate to refuse a lucrative offer in many Bay Area places because of the problems that SF is infamous for.
- veggieburrito 3y agoThe Bay Area is large and the Greater Bay is massive if you take into account people commute in from Sac, Santa Rosa, and Santa Cruz to name a few.
- Bud 3y ago[dead]
- danielvaughn 3y agoA bunch of reasons, but generally it's just an inconvenient place to live. I'm also about to have a kid and don't want to raise a child there.
- greesil 3y agoYeah they teach Cathode Ray Tubes here in school. No bueno.
- Shekelphile 3y agoYou would rather raise a child in a state like Florida where the government has made it illegal not to glorify the confederacy and chattel slavery? That is a very odd choice. I get that the bay has a crime/homeless/CoL problem but fleeing to a place with much of the same issues in its own cities while also being one of the worst parts of the country culturally outside of then isn’t any better, IMO.
- danielvaughn 3y agoI didn't say anything about bay area homelessness, in fact the comment you're responding to was specifically about NYC, which I mentioned I lived in for 4 years. Also, no offense, but I'm willing to bet you haven't spent much time in Florida, if at all. Culturally, about half of my social circle is made up of Venezuelan refugees, all of whom love living here.
- Shekelphile 3y agoUsing loaded language like refugee to refer to venezuela in itself gives away your biases.
- junofan 3y agoI don’t even know what bias you’re referring to. It’s called the Venezuelan refugee crisis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_refugee_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_refugee_crisis Like I’m not even sure what language you’re supposed to use.
- Shekelphile 3y ago> Like I’m not even sure what language you’re supposed to use. Economic migrant, most of the people 'fleeing' venezuela are elites, not people who were actually victims of the economy collapsing.
- danielvaughn 3y ago
- dopeboy 3y agoWhich part of FL?
- danielvaughn 3y agoSouth Florida, about an hour north of Miami. The prices down here have gotten kind of crazy so I'd like to move, but our family is here so that makes it difficult. Still better overall than NYC.
- dopeboy 3y agoAppreciate the response. Wife and I looked at SoFlo, specifically Miami, really closely. Even lived for a month. It was hard for us to pull the trigger, but cool to see it's working out for others. I wouldn't mind being there as opposed to this winter in the bay...
- danielvaughn 3y agoI'd be happy to trade places for the winter - I do miss my seasons!
- ramraj07 3y agoAs someone who chose NyC over SF to start my tech carrier myself, it looks like it would have been much better if I had gone to SF (from how my colleagues did). NYC was my dream city so I don’t regret it but SF is leagues ahead in terms of tech ecosystem.
- danielvaughn 3y agoI feel the same, actually. Looking back, it definitely would have accelerated my career much further than NYC did.
- wolverine876 3y ago> Nor will I ever move to SF, no matter how lucrative the offer. You have never lived there, if I understand correctly. Why wouldn't you move there? Is there some experience you have with it? Housing prices? Internet rumors?
- danielvaughn 3y agoI've never lived there, but I visit often for work. Primarily two reasons - the first is that I'm starting a family and neither I nor my wife have any family there. The second is, as you guessed, the home prices. If I wanted something even remotely affordable, I'd have to live far away and have an insane commute. We've already lived that lifestyle in NYC, and we're not eager to return to it.
- j7ake 3y agoSeems like these issues can be solved with a lucrative offer: 1. Get a full time nanny. 2. Buy a home at a desirable neighbourhood.
- danielvaughn 3y agoWell, family is more than just daycare for one thing. But the larger point is that I don’t see my reasons as issues that need to be addressed. Silicon Valley is not the center of my universe.
- desmosxxx 3y agoThat'd probably need to be a 1mil+ offer