Posted on 03/14/2016 11:48:03 AM PDT by artichokegrower
Are the cons of living in the Silicon Valley starting to outweigh the pros?
A new report based mainly on 2014 data has found that more Americans are leaving the tech hub than are arriving. Silicon Valley saw more than 7,500 U.S. residents move away in 2014, the first time since 2011 that the area has recorded a domestic net loss, according to the study by the Silicon Valley Competitiveness and Innovation Project (SVCIP).
But a steady influx of foreign-born workers made up for the deficit, ensuring that the tech worker pool kept growing over the period.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Are those individual homes or apartment complexes?
We are getting over 100 a day to the Austin area and it has ruined this place. I cannot wait to get out. I have two years left.
How much is your artichoke farm worth?
Are you in Castroville?
To live in one of those, $1 million would just be a down payment.
Mix of apt, condo and homes.
Kind of looks like Mountain View near Google.
Those are the good places.
The photo doesn’t show the dumps built in the ‘70s at 2k/month
Excerpt from their web page:
"Public policies play a critical role in helping to shape the underlying fundamentals of Silicon Valley’s innovation habitat.
A primary goal of the SVCIP is to organize public, private and community leaders around a policy agenda which promotes the long-term health of the regions’ innovation industries and competitiveness.
This section highlights priority policy issue areas in Silicon Valley, and potential policy actions in each area."
Some of them might be four-plexes....others could be a duplex.
The land is very expensive; that’s why they pack ‘em like sardines.
I came to Austin in the ‘80s for work but the boom ended and my company folded. I loved Austin for the four years we lived there. (Yes, there were too many liberals, but that is pretty unique to Austin, Dallas, and other big cities.) We learned how to two step and miss it now in CA.
I was sorry to have to come back to CA and it has only gotten worse. But our son loves the excitement and high pay; plus Si Valley is having a job boom which is not happening in a lot of places.
The nicer suburbs in Pyongyang.
But they move to other parts of the country, ruining wherever they land.
Can we put a border fence around CA?
Oh thanks I thought you were going to tell me it was California.
keyboard spew alert
About six years ago the counties that make up silicon valley made some zoning restrictions that made new single family detached housing almost illegal. Oddly, this is ok with most residents, because they came from India, China, or somewhere else in Asia that is even more crowded. They actually don’t think it is crowded there.
The federal government and their crony capitalist supporters are turning America into a colony where American citizens are barely tolerated.
That’s not right. The progressive thing to do is make the government force land owners to rent or sell at an “affordable” rate and force employers to pay a “living” wage.
Hmmm, might this be a localized and fragile housing "bubble"?
If I recall the stats correctly, they show the Once-Golden-State losing citizen peeps at a very high rate. (Don't remember the source.)
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I call those 4 story monsters ‘breeding pens’.
That is what they remind me of.
Born & raised here, it used to be so nice.
San Jose city hall cares nothing about quality of life, just increasing the tax base.
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