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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: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday September 16 2016, @05:41PM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Friday September 16 2016, @05:41PM (#402879)

    You don't have to cross an ocean to find a place like that in the US; Manhattan, NYC is like that too. Very few Manhattanites have a car, because the public transit is good enough (plus there's cabs/Uber if you're in a hurry: I hear you'll want to stick with Uber if you're black though because the cabs won't pick you up. Watch the racist Uber-haters bash me about this...).

    The problem is, the rent in Manhattan is ridiculous, and if you're a tech worker like most people on this site, the only work there is mostly either web development, or sour-crushing finance.

    From what I've heard about London, the rents there are ridiculous too, so it's not like it's any better than NYC. And again, from what I've heard about London, the tech work there is all finance.

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