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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, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Friday September 16 2016, @01:15AM
I don't know about that. Moving around is much more of an option when you're fresh out of college, but even then it is a non-trivial action. When I moved from Chicago to New York it was like crossing the Iron Curtain, in that nothing, not bank accounts, not past work experience, nothing that was perfectly valid and transferrable in Chicago and the entire rest of the country, was accepted in New York. I had to start over from scratch, couch surfing with a friend on the Upper West Side until I had enough pieces of mail to prove residency and open a bank account (Citibank Chicago accounts are totally unrelated to Citibank New York accounts...).
So you do that enough times chasing that job, thinking that if you just work hard enough that you'll "prove your value" and then you'll be able to do what you want, and it slowly dawns on you that the twit MBA PHB you always wind up working for, somehow, no matter where, does not think that anybody who reports to him has a job that's really all that hard, whereas he's a fucking genius that knows how to run with the big dogs.
That is the reality of end-stage capitalist America, where only the corrupt succeed. Preaching hard work and thrift is fine, but let's not try to fool anyone, especially the young, that any of it makes a damn bit of difference.
Many of our overseas brethren will point out that crony capitalism is the reality in places like India and China and welcome to the party, guys, but lowering ourselves to that same catastrophic trajectory into totalitarian torpidity falls well short of where the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave ought to be striving toward.
Washington DC delenda est.