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California Today: San Diego Struggles to Keep its Young Tech Talent

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

Phoenix666 writes:

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 Friday September 16 2016, @12:46AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @12:46AM (#402557)

    But... San Diego has not one but two drive-in theaters. Name another town that has amenities like that. Actually, it's changed quite a bit since we moved here in the early 1960s. People are assholes, most don't know how to drive, it's filthy dirty from smog fallout, it's just another L.A. now.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @01:04AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @01:04AM (#402567)

    One in Buffalo, but plenty more in the general western NY area,
          http://www.freewebs.com/wnydims/currentwnydriveins.htm [freewebs.com]
    Want to see a few of the gritty parts of Buffalo? Watch Ken Block's Gymkhana NINE: Raw Industrial Playground. I live nearby and can attest that the cityscapes are real, not a Hollywood set.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @02:09AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @02:09AM (#402586)

    Portland, OR.. ok, Newberg isnt THAT far away. ok, maybe Dallas OR is a bit of a drive. but no further than Temecula is relative to Sunny Ego.

  • (Score: 2) by JeanCroix on Friday September 16 2016, @02:46PM

    by JeanCroix (573) on Friday September 16 2016, @02:46PM (#402805)

    San Diego has not one but two drive-in theaters. Name another town that has amenities like that.

    Cincinnati.

    www.starlitedriveinohio.com/

    www.holidayautotheatre.com/