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They can hardly be blamed for not wanting to go live in rainy Seattle, work under someone as uninspiring as Steve Ballmer, and put up with awful stack ranking B
by WiseWeasel 14y ago
They can hardly be blamed for not wanting to go live in rainy Seattle, work under someone as uninspiring as Steve Ballmer, and put up with awful stack ranking BS.
- pnathan 14y agoSeattle seems like a great place to live to me. I would jump at the chance to move there! But MS might be a tougher sell. ;)
- RyJones 14y agoHave Microsoft relocate you, wait a year for your relo payback contract to expire, quit. Or you could find a position at the many Seattle-area employers willing to relocate you: Google, Adobe, Boeing, Valve, a whole grip of game companies. The world, as it were, is your oyster.
- MartinCron 14y agoA few of my friends here in Seattle call Amazon the "travel agent for developers" because so many people relocate to Seattle to work for Amazon and leave immediately after they no longer have to pay back their moving expenses.
- MartinCron 14y agoThe stack ranking BS is (allegedly) a thing of the past, and the rain in Seattle is overblown. There are plenty of US cities that get more rain than Seattle. I won't challenge your opinion about Steve Ballmer, though.
- WiseWeasel 14y agoYou made me curious, so here's a list of US cities with more average rainy/snowy days per year than Seattle[1]: 223: Juneau, Alaska 209: Mt. Washington, N.H. 169: Buffalo, N.Y. 163: Olympia, Wash. 161: Caribou, Maine 155 (tied, interestingly): Cleveland, Ohio 155: Seattle-Tacoma, Wash. At 37 inches of rain per year, it's not a particularly high volume of rain; it's just spread out over a lot of days. San Francisco is down at 63 rainy days and 20 inches per year, for comparison. [1] http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0762183.html http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0762183.html
- vonmoltke 14y ago155 (tied, interestingly): Cleveland, Ohio Lake effect snow Anyway, compare this to where I'm from (South Florida)[1]: Average rainy days - 135 Average rainfall - 62" - 64" [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami,_fl#Climate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami,_fl#Climate
- WiseWeasel 14y agoWell, Microsoft would have to pay me a LOT to move to South Florida as well. : P
- MartinCron 14y agoI don't consider that a fair assessment, as a snowy day is a very different thing from a rainy day. Seattle gets maybe a handful of snowy days a year, and never gets punishingly hot/humid like some cities do.