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

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, @11:14AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @11:14AM (#402715)

    That would be Tijuana, in Mexico. Would you even be legally allowed to live there by the Mexican government? Mexico is really unkind to illegals. At least you wouldn't be taking a job in Mexico, because Mexico would punish you quite a bit more if you did so.
    Your commute would be Hell. Every trip north you'd get to meet the drug-sniffing dog and answer weird questions about fruit, vegetables, seeds, and other plant matter. Every trip south you'd get checked for guns.

    On the plus side, your genitals would see more hand action than they've seen since you downloaded Ikki Tousen...