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posted by takyon on Thursday September 15 2016, @10:05PM   Printer-friendly
from the go-far,-millennials dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 15 2016, @10:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 15 2016, @10:46PM (#402513)

    I too wanted a job that was nearby to where I lived, but then I found that no one had a job for me close to where I lived. So I moved. Now, in irony, I work at home to connect over a VPN to a place thousands of miles away.

    Maybe he can dial into the next meeting and save himself the agony of that commute? That might not exactly meet the goals he had in mind though, as that won't get anything new built...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 15 2016, @11:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 15 2016, @11:03PM (#402520)

    Careful, telecommuting employees are easier to offshore. If the boss or org are not interested in "face time", then the low wages of other countries will look inviting to them.