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In a recent column in Voice of San Diego, Alexander Bakst, a computer science student at U.C. San Diego, said that while he and his peers would love to work in the city, "I'm positive that they all will leave."
The reason? It's not so much the gap in pay relative to Bay Area employers, though that is a factor, as it is the location of many of San Diego's tech companies, Mr. Bakst wrote.
Most of San Diego's tech jobs are in parts of the city — such as North County or Sorrento Valley — that they consider too far from downtown, San Diego's cultural epicenter and millennial stamping ground.
Some fresh graduates say they have little interest in living or working in the industrial park atmosphere of Sorrento Valley, where less costly rents have exerted a strong pull on tech companies ever since Qualcomm set up shop there in 1985.
One column from one millennial, but does that sentiment track with other Soylentils? Is a suburban office park environment enough reason to decamp for another city?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by bzipitidoo on Thursday September 15 2016, @10:22PM
It's not just San Diego. City growth in the southern US is thanks to the almighty Air Conditioner, which hit the markets starting in the 1950s, the Era of the Automobile. This combination led to all kinds of growth best suited to the car. Cars are everything, the Esq. of the 20th century. Only poor, undesirable people travel by bus or (gasp!) foot. Cyclists are roadkill bait.
I'm happy that Millenials are throwing a wrench into this dominant civic paradigm.
(Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Friday September 16 2016, @12:31AM
The fix would be to add garages and move some of that to heavy rail, but that takes a lot of land and money.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @04:04PM
Across the pond - I lived in London for many years and never owned a car. Most Londoners don't drive in the city because the public transport is so good. Same in Oxford (the English version, that is). Not sure about elsewhere in UK...
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday September 16 2016, @05:41PM
You don't have to cross an ocean to find a place like that in the US; Manhattan, NYC is like that too. Very few Manhattanites have a car, because the public transit is good enough (plus there's cabs/Uber if you're in a hurry: I hear you'll want to stick with Uber if you're black though because the cabs won't pick you up. Watch the racist Uber-haters bash me about this...).
The problem is, the rent in Manhattan is ridiculous, and if you're a tech worker like most people on this site, the only work there is mostly either web development, or sour-crushing finance.
From what I've heard about London, the rents there are ridiculous too, so it's not like it's any better than NYC. And again, from what I've heard about London, the tech work there is all finance.