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I suspect there are some confounding factors here. Most people I know would rather rent for $1000/month and have a good job in the city than rent for $300/month
by kd0amg 13y ago
I suspect there are some confounding factors here. Most people I know would rather rent for $1000/month and have a good job in the city than rent for $300/month in a small town where nobody's hiring.
- humanrebar 13y agoThe article isn't contrasting living in the woods with living in the city. It's contrasting living in Orlando with living in Silicon Valley. They're both cities and they're both hiring.
- scarmig 13y agoThey're both hiring, but the... types of jobs they're hiring for vary widely. There's maybe a half dozen places in the world I can do what I do. Orlando is not one of them.
- humanrebar 13y agoFair enough, but the article is about broader trends, not tradeoffs when choosing a particular specialty.
- logfromblammo 13y agoYou left out the option where the person has a good job yet still lives in the small town. I'm not sure why, but some companies are willing to waste a lot of their revenues fighting an increased cost of living in some places, just for the prestige of the address. Apple has enough money in the bank to make their own Celebration, Florida, like Disney did. Why buy expensive space in someone else's crummy old city, when you can buy land cheaply, build your own town, and sell off the pieces at much higher prices?