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Sounds healthy. I'm certainly not alone in being a city person who wouldn't want to live anywhere that doesn't have everything in walking/cycling distance, good
by rickmb 14y ago
Sounds healthy. I'm certainly not alone in being a city person who wouldn't want to live anywhere that doesn't have everything in walking/cycling distance, good public transport and all the other features of a dense urban setting.
I wondered how long SV could continue to bitch about talent shortage whilst ignoring such a major portion of the population. Especially young and ambitious talent tends to gravitate towards the lifestyle of major cities, and has been for generations. Why would tech be an exception?
I'm guessing a lot of young people currently employed in Silicon Valley consider living there a (minor) sacrifice rather than a perk.
- tomkarlo 14y agoThere's lots of companies already doing this. Every morning in SF you have hundreds of buses filling with young folks commuting to work down at Apple or Google or Facebook. Uniformly, the age range on the bus is 22-35. The larger tech companies aren't moving to SF any time soon. Too many of their execs and employees want to live in houses, and there just isn't space in SF for campuses that will hold ~10,000 employees, nor many skyscrapers available, either. Plus there are still prohibitive tax issues to being in SF, unless (like Twitter) the city cuts you a break.