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Why I moved to Miami

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Re: Why I moved to Miami

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Post by nwatson »

I'm now working for a San Jose startup from North Carolina ... and not from RTP, but from a much less tech-focused area. My wife's family lives here and that's great for our daughter. Our house here costs 20% what an equivalent house would have in San Mateo, my bay area home from 1995 to 2013.

This place has a nice downtown, a pretty diverse population (a lot of medical research and university action). The food's pretty good and somewhat varied (no Shalimar Pakistani unfortunately, I miss my Saag Gosht).

I miss the bay area but can now get back at least every two months or so to see old friends. If you can swing it, give it a try.

Re: Why I moved to Miami

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Post by memracom »

The whole Silicon Valley advantage is fading. I went there back in 1997 when it was very hard to find technical jobs in my country (Canada) because a lot of those kinds of jobs gravitated to head office cities for large companies, and many Canadian companies were subsidiaries of large American companies. In Silicon Valley, I learned that most startups fail or are acquired within in a year or so. It's like a lottery. Then I headed to London England, found a job fairly easily and lived there for 10 years or so. Not long ago I returned to Canada, Vancouver this time, and found it loaded with startups and other tech businesses that were more established. Another Canadian city that I am familiar with is Waterloo Ontario and it is in a similar condition. I'm told that Toronto is also overflowing with opportunities both startup and more established stuff. If you are going to play the startup lottery, why not do it among folks you know.

And in case you are wondering what this has to do with Miami, I agree with the OP, just stay home and build your business (startup or otherwise) right there. You still have a ticket in the startup lottery if that is the way you want to go, but just like in SV itself, most of those startups don't last very long.

However, unlike SV, if you stay where you are then you have a better chance of building a normal business that grows incrementally by serving profitable customers, reinvesting profits, and taking a longer term view.

Readers of HN should be very aware that there are startups all over the place, and not just in American cities but in most countries of the world. Silicon Valley just isn't as special as it once was because computers and tech and Internet connectivity is now virtually everywhere that there are cities.

Re: Why I moved to Miami

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Post by Samuel_Michon »

In light of the current (and ongoing) discussion on editorializing titles on HN:

The article title “Why I moved to Miami & you should too” is very different from the HN submission “Before moving your startup to NYC or SFO”.

I don’t always agree with HN moderators’ title changes, but in this case, I can see why the title would be reversed (it hasn’t been yet, as of me writing this.)

Re: Why I moved to Miami

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Post by excitom »

Yeah, but I'll take the weather in Redwood City (mid peninsula) over the oppressive heat and humidity (and cockroaches and mosquitos) of Florida any day. For reference: I've lived both places.

Re: Why I moved to Miami

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Post by yeukhon »

nextstep wrote: post #7

Maimi is pretty cool. It's too bad they're going to be underwater and the city mostly uninhabitable in about 10 years.

If 10 years is true, no one would be living there right now. People will already be evacuating. The number is probably around 30-50 years.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jul/29/climate-n...

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