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by zjaffee 8y ago
Tech might not have been kind to the cities of SF and Seattle sure, but tech built the greater metropolitan regions of both of these areas, where Seattle metro's population has doubled as a result of the tech boom since 1980, and the b
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And when anytime both of these services go down at the same time, it's obvious who to blame (it happens way more often than you see the same on AWS).
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At least personally, based on what I've been hearing, Facebook seems to have taken the throne from Amazon on that one.
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No this is exactly what nimby means, tons of people who would support HQ2 being in manhattan are opposed to HQ2 being in LIC.
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Just look at levels.fyi which is relatively up to date data on how much people make at each level. The level to level mapping may be higher at google, but google is also notorious for down leveling, and in turn making less money and having
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The development in LIC wasn't about Amazon in particular, but amazon is choosing that location for the same reason. People were given huge tax breaks to redevelop LIC.
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Considering Amazon helped pay for the South Lake Union streetcar, I imagine that this announcement will expedite the approvals for and the construction of the BQX street car.
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Close to 300k would be a person receiving an offer as an SDE 3, where with time spent at the company that amount is higher. It might have been different in my experience, but plenty of new people come in as SDE 3's should they have the
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An SDE 2 isn't really a senior software engineer role, that would be SDE3, where many of which make closer to 300k.
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Could very easily trigger a switch that leads to NYC being the city with more second offices for Bay area companies than Seattle. And possibly over time, NYC gaining dominance in the tech industry beyond what the Bay Area has today. The lar
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200k is at the low/mid range of an SDE2 at Amazon, Amazon pays more competitively than people give them credit for, especially compared to the majority of firms competing for software engineers in NYC right now.
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us-east-1 is the largest AWS region by far, and is located in northern VA. There are tons of employees already located nearby for this reason alone, among other AWS work that's already happening. Additionally, public sector sales is a
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As someone who grew up in NYC, has lived in LA, SF and now Seattle. Seattle absolutely does not have the same sorts of things NYC has. The mega cities have far more going on in terms of diversity of options on any given night than smaller o
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They have been around virtually forever, they had a very aggressive sales organization, and their database does generally perform better than the competition for most standard SQL workloads.
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The thing about yelp that's nice is you can see aggregates, rather than some individual persons good or bad review. This includes, what dishes are popular at a particular place, and how popular regardless of any one opinion is a given
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I think the trick is to not focus on how many stars a place has, but the number of reviews it has, especially when visiting a new place.
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There are absolutely massive parks in staten island and to some extent the bronx too. People forget simply how big NYC actually is, where should you look beyond just the city there's a tons of different types of nature than what Denver
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by zjaffee 8y ago
Speaking of representatives and bikes, there's a massive bipartisan congressional caucus on biking ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Bike_Caucus ), yet it's not really gone anywhere in the form of
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It shouldn't be the opinion of the person on the scooter what is safe or not safe to do with said scooter on the sidewalk. Take space away from cars, not pedestrians.
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Oh for sure, NJ home prices do not tell the whole picture, but the truth is that even with these high taxes, a Software Engineer at a top company should easily be able to afford to live there, even with a spouse that doesn't work. 3.5k
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This is honestly offensive, I grew up in manhattan, and tons of my friends growing up lived in very small spaces (families sharing studio apartments). The key difference is that the amenities that most people in the suburbs have within thei
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This is absolutely true, from what I've been hearing NJ transit has just been getting worse and worse since I had used it on a daily basis.
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Look, you wont find this in the towns with the absolute best schools, and it is only possible to have this sort of commute if you work on top of the lower manhattan path station or penn station. Additionally, prices could've have risen
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My parents commute from NJ west of the parkway and when things aline the commute is 45 minutes (of course things often don't align). The key piece is that you need to live and work right near the various stops.
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This isn't true in the slightest, the only people who will be this way are those who are unwilling to make sacrifices in terms of quality or amount of space within a certain location, in return for the desire to own. The regional home
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I must've overlooked that part, that doesn't seem too bad actually given that it's about a half mile from the christopher street path stop.
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One thing to point out about the NYC metro area is that there is a ton of land surrounding it with reasonably priced homes in safe areas with less than a 45 minute commute by public transit, where in the Bay Area and Seattle, the waterways
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NYC is arguably the largest global center for the entire services sector/post industrial economy. It can become a tech hub far larger what exists today in the bay area, and still not become a monoculture. The only monocultural aspect t
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There is more demand for working in NYC than is currently met by existing tech offices, that simply isn't the case in other metro areas. The real problem is that Google is choosing to expand in the neighborhood they are currently in, w
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Building housing isn't the solution to solving the problem created by airbnb, as most airbnb units would be competing for tenants towards the bottom of the market, and would likely be rent controlled, when compared to new housing that

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