> You said you grew up in the bay area...what part? Sunnyvale. I went to Homestead High School. It was 3 blocks away from Apple HQ. Steve Wozniac went to one o

> You said you grew up in the bay area...what part? Sunnyvale. I went to Homestead High School. It was 3 blocks away from Apple HQ. Steve Wozniac went to one of our football games after Steve Jobs died... presumably to reminisce about his high school days. > What do you mean by "toxic culture". I'd say that 1/20 people I've ran into fit into this personality type of "I'm better/smarter than you" in a passive aggressive sort of way. Their opinion is an objective truth, and anyone who disagrees with them is stupid. They tend to look down on everyone who isn't as smart or successful as them. And when you talk to them, all they give a shit about is how successful you are and what your accomplishments are, and if you aren't as successful as they hoped you to be then they give you the cold shoulder and think of you as a plebeian or something similar. It's kind of like what you'd imagine an asshole New Yorker to be, but they don't say anything to your face. I was definitely guilty of this while growing up there... I'm trying to unlearn all of that shit. And again this is about 1/20 people. You might not end up running into these people but my high school and my first internship had quite a few of these characters. It left a sour taste in my mouth. > WHICH CITIES ARE YOU THINKING OF Dunno. Depends on the technology. I was mostly just disagreeing. To say that SV is best for exposure to new technology would have made sense back in the 80's with all that hardware, but 99% of the shit there now is just web and mobile, which can be found anywhere as long as you have an internet connection (and programmer friends to suggest you new stuff). Like, if you want to build your career, all you really need to do is move to where there's a lot of people. There will be tech people there if the city is big enough, and you'll probably make more meaningful and substantial connections if you actually like and connect with the city you move to, instead of just blindly moving to SV because that's what everyone else is doing. > WHERE DO YOU SUGGEST? It literally depends on who you are. What might be the best place to build your career for one person might not be for another. For example, on paper, SV would be the the best place to go because I have shittons of connections there. But I know I would get depressed. I'd long for a better life if I lived there. And I'd hate myself if I got exposed to that 1/20, and felt myself becoming like that again. I'm going to try my luck in NYC, and possibly abroad in Germany if that doesn't work out (unlikely).