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Visa availability is not the magic ingredient to replicate Sillicon Valley. High wages and high concentration of talent are. What would entice an Indian or Eastern European developer to move to Mexico?
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Vancouver is still significantly cheaper than the Bay Area, you can get a studio for less than 1000$USD / month.
This underlines an important distinction about Vancouver real estate: it's very expensive to purchase a home in Vancouver, but rents have not exploded at the same pace. That makes it a very different value proposition from what exists in the SFBA (especially for younger folks who don't necessarily want to buy).
Visa availability is not the magic ingredient to replicate Sillicon Valley. High wages and high concentration of talent are. What would entice an Indian or Eastern European developer to move to Mexico?
Beaches and a relaxed pace of life, not unlike that of the Balearic coast instead of aggressive dog eat dog of SV culture? It is different but some people might like the more relaxed atmos.
Dunno anyone from India who gets excited by the idea of beaches and relaxed pace of life. If anything then these places are ALL about relaxed pace of life.
Maybe to Eastern Europeans beaches might be enticing, but definitely not to the Indians.
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Beaches and a relaxed pace of life, not unlike that of the Balearic coast instead of aggressive dog eat dog of SV culture? It is different but some people might like the more relaxed atmos.
Interestingly, beaches are inversely correlated with economic activity. See http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v527/n7577/full/nature1... Optimal average temperature for economic activity is 13 C, San Francisco average is 14 C.
Intel (with 10,000 employees), IBM, Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Apple, Oracle, Broadcom, Qualcomm, Siemens have divisions in Israel. Israel is the world's leading exporter of drones.
Mr. Trump says businesses use the program to avoid hiring higher-paid Americans, and his executive order instructed the agencies to ensure that visas were awarded to the most skilled, best-paid immigrant workers.
Disney, Toys “R” Us, Southern California Edison and New York Life are among the companies that have laid off American tech workers who first were asked to train their replacements — tech workers from low-wage countries like India brought in on temporary visas. In some cases, the jobs themselves went back home with the new workers."
This is evidence that Trump cares about workers like readers of HN get fair wages and that is high tech leaders that are trying to depress wages.
NYT, WaPo, MSM in general attempt to paint Trump as the "bad guy" but his actions suggest otherwise. Yet, these actions rarely get directly reported in MSM. For example, these quotes should have been at the beginning of an article discussing Trump's efforts to help American get fair wages and to not have to suffer competition from Visa abuse.
Visa availability is not the magic ingredient to replicate Sillicon Valley. High wages and high concentration of talent are. What would entice an Indian or Eastern European developer to move to Mexico?
You have obviously never been to India. The smell.