It's a cycle. Waves of people come to and leave from the Bay Area over time. The last exodus was the 2008. The one before was the dotcom bust.
One-third of SF Bay Area residents hope to leave soon, poll finds
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Re: One-third of SF Bay Area residents hope to leave soon, poll finds
#62I've been waiting for another earthquake since '89 to shake out these softies. Please!
Re: One-third of SF Bay Area residents hope to leave soon, poll finds
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
But were they? Really? 100+ temps in the summer... landlocked in Texas.
Landlocked? There is water EVERYWHERE in Austin. There are 7 miles worth of Greenbelts that cut through the entire downtown/urban area. We have Lake Travis and Lake Austin. The Colorado river (Town Lake) is right beside 1st street. We have Barton Springs just south of 1st street. We're also getting a surf park (Nland) this year and have a ton of wake-boarding/cable parks. An hour south we have Dripping Springs and Wi…
In contrast to parent, that makes Austin sound great! I'm packing my bags and moving there now, thanks!
Re: One-third of SF Bay Area residents hope to leave soon, poll finds
#64Seattle is good!
No it's not. I'm trudging through mud and oppressive rain right this moment.
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#65The "hope" part discourages me. It means that despite the wishes to leave, the jobs elsewhere (or telecommuting opportunities) may simply not be there.
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#66Is the Bay Area no longer a good place to start a career? I'm close to finishing up my PhD, and my original plan was to apply to work at the tech companies that I find most interesting. For the most part, these are located in the Bay Area — although some are in New York, Austin, Boston, Seattle, Raleigh, and Atlanta. I figured I would stay there 2-4 years tops though, since my family and girlfriend live in the southe…
As someone without a degree working in tech, I would argue The Bay Area is the best place to grow a career, maybe rather than start (didn't start out looking in SF for tech jobs. Most places want someone mid-senior level). You having a PhD probably opens the door for a ton of good companies though depending on what your field of study is in, which I assume is CS, and if you can pass the interviews. As long as you don…
Oddly enough, my degree is in chemical engineering, however all of my work is entirely computational (molecular dynamics, high performance computing, machine learning, data analysis). In fact, my research for the last year has been on a large-scale nonconvex optimization problem — hopefully employers read further than my resume title...
But yeah, I don't really mind where I live as long as it's not in too dangerous of a location. Once I have children I'll want something more comfortable though.
Re: One-third of SF Bay Area residents hope to leave soon, poll finds
#6712,000 people moved to SF in 2014. 4,000 new homes were added. I think we need more homes. https://medium.com/@TomPJacobs/what-housing-crisis-3c0568a5d...
The link seems to advocate/facilitate increasing occupancy, which is indeed one solution. With 12k people and 4k homes, that's a ratio of 3 which is very close to the average occupancy of around 2.5 that most cities have.
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#68I'm sure the fact that there's an increasing trend of empty Chinese investment properties isn't helping. I grew up in Cupertino, and when I visit my parents there, I'm rather shocked at how downhill the neighborhood has gone in parts. It's crazy that these old 70's tract homes go for 1.5 million. Even more insane is that they're bought and then left empty to go downhill. Literally broken windows and paint falling off…
> "I'm sure the fact that there's an increasing trend of empty Chinese investment properties isn't helping." This. This. This. A couple of years ago, I found myself utterly shocked by the price of homes in San Francisco. In a fit of frustration, I fired off a few emails a few random real estate firms in SF, asking one simple question: "Who the BLEEP can afford these homes?" You see, I was frustrated. I have a great j…
What would make it a less interesting investment is if there were a credible threat to add enough supply to devalue it.
That's generally how markets keep prices regulated: if they go up enough, more people jump in to producing the good.
That mechanism is severely broken in the Bay Area, among other popular places in the US.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
But were they? Really? 100+ temps in the summer... landlocked in Texas.
Landlocked? There is water EVERYWHERE in Austin. There are 7 miles worth of Greenbelts that cut through the entire downtown/urban area. We have Lake Travis and Lake Austin. The Colorado river (Town Lake) is right beside 1st street. We have Barton Springs just south of 1st street. We're also getting a surf park (Nland) this year and have a ton of wake-boarding/cable parks. An hour south we have Dripping Springs and Wi…
There is a difference between having water near you, and being trapped inside the Republic of Texas. I've spent time there, it wasn't for me.. thats all I'm saying :)
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#70Please don't come to Austin. I moved from SF to Austin a little over two years ago, and I want to make it clear that it's terrible. The food is bad, the people are lame, and all the musicians are out of tune. I hear Chicago is where it's at, so please go there. Or New York. Or anywhere else, really. Just don't come to Austin.
Also: Cleveland as well.
(... jokes on me, you were all going to keep away anyway)