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Soaring housing costs forces talent to flee Silicon Valley

• jorawebdev 11y ago
  would be good to know the age demographics
• gamechangr 11y ago
  This was posted yesterday with like 80 comments, search for it. On the other post I posted in response to this article: I think that maybe more accurate for entry level developers. Housing is an issue to work around for sure. Seattle - Yes (but also quite expense) Austin - Yes to a less degree Portland - Maybe. All of these are great cities with plenty of dev jobs. You really need a strong CS program to build around if you want think about not moving to Silicon Valley. University of Washington totally fits that bill, as does University of Texas- Austin, but I would have to guess that Portland has a good local university (but I'm not familiar with it from afar like the others)
  • notduncansmith 11y ago
    Link for the lazy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9589706 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9589706 (posted yesterday)
• nomel 11y ago
  The standard of living is so low here, it blows my mind. Top end engineer? House from the 60's, which people consider "nice".