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: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday September 16 2016, @12:59AM
It could be the cost-savings, exercise, potential for social interaction, motion, self-sufficiency (the different kind from depending on a car, of course), and relatively low impact on the environment.
Or perhaps they're too wimpy to be master of their own automobile jockeying the highway daily at unsafe velocities as if every commute were Death Race 2000. [youtube.com] Hint: driving a stick makes it more fun. Some insane folks just like to drive, and chances are that you ain't drivin' that bus you ridin' in.