Poll: If you're in the US, What State Do You Live In? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: If you're in the US, What State Do You Live In?

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Post by tardigrade » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 10:05 PM UTC

Felix21 wrote: post #15

soo 1. California 2. New York and 3. Texas hardly surprising

Washington creeping up on that third place spot. Not surprising considering all the northwestern tech companies. Wouldn't be surprised if wa ranked second or third for tech people/total population.

Re: Poll: If you're in the US, What State Do You Live In?

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 10:05 PM UTC

Felix21 wrote: post #15

soo 1. California 2. New York and 3. Texas hardly surprising

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Re: Poll: If you're in the US, What State Do You Live In?

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Post by rorrr » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 10:06 PM UTC

This is stupid. It will simply reflect the average number of people who have the internet per state.

Re: Poll: If you're in the US, What State Do You Live In?

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Post by obviouslygreen » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 10:06 PM UTC

bonyt wrote: post #26

Sometimes I feel like these polls just produce a population heatmap, like in https://xkcd.com/1138/

It's likely to be similar, but then one obvious point of interest would be significant deviations (or the lack thereof) from a population heatmap.

Re: Poll: If you're in the US, What State Do You Live In?

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Post by noxryan » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 10:06 PM UTC

Interesting, me and another programmer I work with just voted for North Dakota, yet it was only raised to 1 point.

I wonder if HN limits votes by IP Address.

Re: Poll: If you're in the US, What State Do You Live In?

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Post by ninetax » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 10:06 PM UTC

Questions for those few living in New Mexico: How is the job market for a SW engineer? Do you all pretty much live in ABQ, or is anyone is Santa Fe?

Re: Poll: If you're in the US, What State Do You Live In?

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 10:07 PM UTC

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Re: Poll: If you're in the US, What State Do You Live In?

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Post by drewblaisdell » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 10:07 PM UTC

rorrr wrote: post #33

This is stupid. It will simply reflect the average number of people who have the internet per state.

It will absolutely not reflect the average number of people who have the internet per state.

Re: Poll: If you're in the US, What State Do You Live In?

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Post by xb95 » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 10:07 PM UTC

Xcelerate wrote: post #21

Anyone in Knoxville? :) I knew California would be pretty high up there because of SV but I didn't realize so many people on here live there. For people who are in CA, do you live there because that's where most of the tech start-ups are or because it's a nice place (or both)?

I'm a country boy who grew up in the midwest and came here when a company I worked for in Portland got acquired. I've been stuck here for 8 long years, now, and constantly dream about going somewhere else.

California is fine, the SV is okay, there are certainly jobs and lots of opportunity and at this point I've built quite the network ... but seriously, I miss being able to go outside and see a field of corn from time to time.

One day...

Re: Poll: If you're in the US, What State Do You Live In?

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Post by jonvictorino » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 10:08 PM UTC

Xcelerate wrote: post #21

Anyone in Knoxville? :) I knew California would be pretty high up there because of SV but I didn't realize so many people on here live there. For people who are in CA, do you live there because that's where most of the tech start-ups are or because it's a nice place (or both)?

I was raised in California and I just happened to enjoy building websites as a kid so it was a no brainer to move to Silicon Valley when I became an adult.

I just wish it wasn't so damn expensive to live here. States like Colorado and Arizona have been on my mind a lot lately since you can get a beautiful house out there for what it costs to buy a condo here.