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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: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 15 2016, @11:22PM
Check the comments below the article to see that "... Mr. Bakst [the author] is the live-in partner of Maya Rosas of The Atlantis Group, the land use lobbying firm controversially engaged in promoting the exact things that Mr. Bakst coincidentally claims are needed." He is just pushing the agenda of developers who want to have their way with the city center.