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: 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...