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Want a job in Silicon Valley?
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Re: Want a job in Silicon Valley?
#12I live in Austin. Same concentration of crazy smart people, only with less attitude. Did I mention that you can actually buy a house here? With a chance of paying it off? And a 25 minute commute? THIS is why 1 of every 50 cars in Austin has a California license plate. EDIT: there's less access to VC money here. But that doesn't seem to be stopping people.
Cool. Have fun in Austin.
Re: Want a job in Silicon Valley?
#13Want a job in Silicon Valley?
NO.
You should never lead off with an open-ended question. And I seriously do not want a job in Silicon Valley, but that doesn't stop the recruiters from contacting me. If a developer with tons of experience hasn't worked in SV by now, they probably never will.
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#14I live in Austin. Same concentration of crazy smart people, only with less attitude. Did I mention that you can actually buy a house here? With a chance of paying it off? And a 25 minute commute? THIS is why 1 of every 50 cars in Austin has a California license plate. EDIT: there's less access to VC money here. But that doesn't seem to be stopping people.
Cool. Have fun in Austin.
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#15I live in Austin. Same concentration of crazy smart people, only with less attitude. Did I mention that you can actually buy a house here? With a chance of paying it off? And a 25 minute commute? THIS is why 1 of every 50 cars in Austin has a California license plate. EDIT: there's less access to VC money here. But that doesn't seem to be stopping people.
I think it would be good for you to realize that what gives your life fulfillment (mortgages, shorter average commutes than SF) might not mean anything to other people.
Re: Want a job in Silicon Valley?
#16I used to really be attracted to SV. The companies, weather, opportunities; all of it seemed great. Then I realized the living expenses, the government regulations set forth by the state, and the overall smugness of some people and it really turned me off. Case in point. This websites says "work with the smartest people in the world" as if SV has the highest concentration of intelligent people in the world and as if…
Good call Ryan, on both accounts. On the wording, I've tweaked it to include "some of" the smartest people in the world. But doesn't address the bigger issue of smugness, which I've noticed too. Certainly something in the SV attitude that includes a holy-than-thou vibe, but now that I think about it, I get that vibe whenever I'm around successful entrepreneurs - no matter what city I'm in. Re the living expenses - it…
> from what I've seen, the increased pay more than offsets the increased cost of living
Only if you're willing to downsize. Some people are, but it's a tough sell to lots of people.
Re: Want a job in Silicon Valley?
#17I don't terribly want to move to SV, but I am a bit curious what this will return.
Sorry if I'm wasting your time customerdevlabs! I mostly signed up out of curiosity.
Obviously, though, if you want to pay me $150k/year, give me 3 months of vacation, let me telecommute 2/5 days, pay my moving expenses, and give me fun problems, I will move tomorrow.
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#18Why do you want to move people physically there? I could work there, but I can afford to choose and I don't want to move my family out, it's not worth it.
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#19Inspired by this, I think I came upon a startup idea that could actually work.
I'm probably not to pursue it (my job search is going really well and I'll probably take something else) but anyone who's interested can reach out. I'm not afraid to share the idea.
Re: Want a job in Silicon Valley?
#20I used to really be attracted to SV. The companies, weather, opportunities; all of it seemed great. Then I realized the living expenses, the government regulations set forth by the state, and the overall smugness of some people and it really turned me off. Case in point. This websites says "work with the smartest people in the world" as if SV has the highest concentration of intelligent people in the world and as if…
The living expenses are a real burden, and the average rental rates in the core of the San Francisco Bay Area have increased ~20-30% over the last three years.
They're building new apartments all around the bay now and the greedy realty vultures somehow think it's reasonable to charge as much as $3500-4000USD per month for them (one and two bedrooms). That's easily a mortgage payment on a brand new home out here.
The older apartment complexes have seen this and have been raising their rates as well (the monthly market rate on my apartment went from $2150 USD to $2750 USD in the last six months I've lived there even though it's in the south bay area).
The worst part of all of this is the realization that I'll likely never be able to afford a home out here (median house price is currently ~$500K USD): http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_23249121/bay-area-med...