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There's a bit of selection bias due to the fact that you are reading HN. I can promise you that the small percentage of people who work in the software field a
by JPKab 14y ago
There's a bit of selection bias due to the fact that you are reading HN. I can promise you that the small percentage of people who work in the software field are a type of educational elite, and you are, generally, going to live in places and work in offices with other members of the globo-corporate elite. Also, just to be clear, MANY, MANY people who speak regional dialects at home or informally will shift into a northeastern, "business standard" dialect when in a work setting. I should know. I am one of them. My Appalachian accent does me few favors in business environments.
- _delirium 14y agoI'm young enough that I'm thinking more of people I went to school with in most of those cities, not really professional colleagues: elementary/middle-school in Chicago, and high-school in Houston. But it's true that they were middle-class suburban areas, and probably also had a lot of people who moved around (few of my Houston classmates were multi-generational Texans).