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Re: Why I moved to Miami

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Post by turar »

analog31 wrote: post #26

I spent a few years in Texas -- another zero income tax state, before moving back to the Midwest. Something to consider is whether or not you've got kids. Right now my family lives in an affordable neighborhood with a tolerant culture and excellent public schools that my two kids attend. In Texas, it seemed more like getting a good secular education for your kids was something that you had to pay a lot for, one way o…

I was under impression that Texas does have good schools, e.g. 3 of top 20 schools in the nation according to USNews are in TX: http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/national-r...

Also, what are the "education states" and why?

Re: Why I moved to Miami

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Post by AJ007 »

yeukhon wrote: post #10
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...

SF could have a devastating earthquake at any moment and people are still there.

Down in LA someone is trying to build a skyscraper on an active fault line: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hollywood-fault-mill...

A good portion of Manhattan will be under water if sea levels rise as well.

Then we all know what happened to New Orleans.

People seem to enjoy evacuating after the fact, not before.

Re: Why I moved to Miami

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Post by hackula1 »

memracom wrote: post #3

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.…

I always find it interesting how a company that takes off and IPOs outside SV seems to gain almost no attention even when they have profits that would dwarf most of the hot startups. I work down the street from a startup that IPO'd a couple years ago for hundreds of millions, does double digits of daily trading on the NASDAQ, and seemingly nobody has heard of. Instagram selling for a billion is cool and all, but there are many companies like this who fly 100% under the radar. If I had to guess, it is probably a focus on B2C vs B2B. (Don't have the source, but I think I read it in Inc. this month) 80% of the startups filing for IPO this year are B2B. Food for thought.

Re: Why I moved to Miami

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Post by saryant »

analog31 wrote: post #26

I spent a few years in Texas -- another zero income tax state, before moving back to the Midwest. Something to consider is whether or not you've got kids. Right now my family lives in an affordable neighborhood with a tolerant culture and excellent public schools that my two kids attend. In Texas, it seemed more like getting a good secular education for your kids was something that you had to pay a lot for, one way o…

> In Texas, it seemed more like getting a good secular education for your kids was something that you had to pay a lot for, one way or the other -- either living in a super affluent neighborhood or finding private schools.

I have to disagree with this. I graduated from a regular public school in Texas and there was nothing sectarian about the education and it was far better than the public high school I attended in the SF Bay Area (they could actually afford things like copy paper, something my CA high school stopped buying due to budget cuts. They also dropped all advanced courses, this in a neighborhood with houses reaching $1 million).

I lived in an affluent neighborhood in Texas, yes, but the bar to afford such a neighborhood isn't very high here. ~$250k homes in that area for some of the top-ranked high schools in the nation.

Re: Why I moved to Miami

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Post by azakai »

> Lastly, the weather in Florida is unparalleled from November to March. It's usually pretty good the rest of the year too

Lies :P I've lived in Miami. March to November, it's super-hot and super-humid. And it has hurricanes.

Re: Why I moved to Miami

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Post by akavi »

saryant wrote: post #34
analog31 wrote: post #26

I spent a few years in Texas -- another zero income tax state, before moving back to the Midwest. Something to consider is whether or not you've got kids. Right now my family lives in an affordable neighborhood with a tolerant culture and excellent public schools that my two kids attend. In Texas, it seemed more like getting a good secular education for your kids was something that you had to pay a lot for, one way o…

> In Texas, it seemed more like getting a good secular education for your kids was something that you had to pay a lot for, one way or the other -- either living in a super affluent neighborhood or finding private schools. I have to disagree with this. I graduated from a regular public school in Texas and there was nothing sectarian about the education and it was far better than the public high school I attended in t…

I grew up in a very affluent school district in Texas, and I still had to deal with being harassed for being an atheist and having my biology teacher preface her lessons on evolution with "Now, this is not what I personally believe, but...".

That said, even with those little unpleasantnesses, I did get an excellent education.

Re: Why I moved to Miami

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Post by robterrell »

nwatson wrote: post #24
bartonfink wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Winston Salem, per chance?

Yep! Do you have experience with the town?

As someone who escaped a tech job in Winston-Salem in the 90's, and now lives in Marin county, I'm curious about how things have improved. What VCs are making life better for startups? Or is it just a cheaper spot with decent internet?

Re: Why I moved to Miami

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Post by turar »

auston wrote: post #28
turar wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably longer than 10, but yeah, the point stands. Insightful article about the issue: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-the-city-of-mi...

Author of the article here. Ironically - that picture from the RS article is right in front of the 1Sale.com office. I feel compelled to share that it does not look like that often (maybe 1-2 days a year during hurricane season)!

Yes, the caption is "Miami after Hurricane Wilma in 2005".

Re: Why I moved to Miami

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Post by saryant »

akavi wrote: post #36
saryant wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> In Texas, it seemed more like getting a good secular education for your kids was something that you had to pay a lot for, one way or the other -- either living in a super affluent neighborhood or finding private schools. I have to disagree with this. I graduated from a regular public school in Texas and there was nothing sectarian about the education and it was far better than the public high school I attended in t…

I grew up in a very affluent school district in Texas, and I still had to deal with being harassed for being an atheist and having my biology teacher preface her lessons on evolution with "Now, this is not what I personally believe, but...". That said, even with those little unpleasantnesses, I did get an excellent education.

I didn't take biology in Texas, I took it in California before I moved and my bio teacher in CA espoused a similar attitude.

Re: Why I moved to Miami

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Post by lobster_johnson »

goronbjorn wrote: post #5

Minor editorial note: SFO is the airport, SF is the normal abbreviation for the city.

It's pretty common to use the main airport name as a synecdoche referring to the city. I regularly see CPH used instead of Copenhagen, OSL instead of Oslo, BCN for Barcelona, etc. Doesn't work for all cities, of course.
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