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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, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday September 16 2016, @12:44AM
I live here, and I'd leave if I weren't stuck with such high costs that I can't even save up enough to move. You think it's bad now, there's talk on the radio that there gonna gentrify Convoy Street next...where things are moving towards now is that people pay $3000/mo rents to live away from the truly "Phoenix-like" industrial areas...well, next it's paying $3000/mo rents for the privilege of living in the industrial parks next to the strip clubs, traffic fistfucks, 52 and 163 freeways, and warehouses.
And the reason why Convoy Street became popular in the first place - its cheap, authentic, and ultra-tasty Asian food - will go away when those rents skyrocket and the real Asians are priced-out while "Fusion" and "Pacific-Rimjob" caprices run by absent Wolfgang Pucks shit up the place.
Every other decent neighborhood with character has suffered the same fate - notably Barrio Logan, which is now where Slashdot resides, although admitting that reduces ambiguity about whether or not Barrio Logan is still a shithole.
On its face this sounds like a good idea only if you're a trust-fund baby who doesn't have to work, until you get randomly shoved and called a "faggot" in the streets. Due to the high concentration of former and current military here, people will make racist, sexist, and homophobic jokes in the workplace and if you have a problem with it, then you're outta there and you're not gonna do a goddamn thing about it.
And, assuming you can find tech work that isn't outsourced, [sandiegouniontribune.com] aggressive out-of-state recruiting ensures that you'll be making the national, rather than the local, average salaries...and of course you still have to endure having your own car and traffic to get to the industrial parks where the work is.
Sorrento Valley is but one small nugget of work with nearby housing, with ridiculous rents because UCSD and the penalty of having to endure the constant partying of wealthy students. You want to work where the other 90% of tech jobs are, you're gonna pay 5k/mo rent and/or drive, because public transit don't go out there.
And, unlike San Francisco, San Diego hates poor people -- you will be harassed by cops, bum-proof benches, spikes and irregular rocks placed under the overpasses, sprayed down with watercannons (for "sidewalk cleaning") every day before a big game downtown or during election season, beaten brutally if not murdered randomly by members of MMA gyms looking to get away with killing because your life has no value, etc.
Too bad, so sad.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @01:25AM
Bumping into you and calling you a faggot is just how they say hello in the Marines/Navy.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday September 16 2016, @01:47AM
It was always like that in the Navy, but only after Obama's purge did that become the norm in the Marines.
How the mighty have fallen.
(Score: 2) by chromas on Friday September 16 2016, @11:37AM
That sounds awesome! Does that mean there are few hipsters? Or do they join in ironically?
(Score: 2) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Friday September 16 2016, @02:57PM
I used to live 28th and E - back when there was a PCP epidemic. I know Logan and "Lomas De Oro" well - at least pre-gentry.
At least that's "real" San Diego. The entire sprawl that was once sparse pockets of realtor-fueled, non-places from the Valley and Tierra Santa up through Penosquitos, Bosall, etc.?
Death seems preferable.
You're betting on the pantomime horse...
(Score: 2) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Friday September 16 2016, @03:00PM
Trump country. Bland, middle-class fascism, brought to you by people who cast their first vote for Pete Wilson think Schwarzenegger didn't get a fair shot.
You're betting on the pantomime horse...