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Why startups are now leaving Silicon Valley; Its primacy as a technology hub is on the wane.
The Economist ^ | 09/18/2018

Posted on 09/18/2018 8:22:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: caww

“Silicon Valley is moving to China and the far East.”

That’s simply not true!


21 posted on 09/18/2018 11:18:48 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: Moonman62

“The Valley does many things remarkably well, but it comes dangerously close to being a monoculture of white male nerds. “

The “white male nerds” are mostly driven by Jewish overlords! You will find that nearly all the big SV companies have Jewish CEOs and the like. Years ago,I worked for a Fiber to the home company in the Valley. Our “chief optical physics” guy was a struggling Jew from Allentown, PA ( Bell Labs). Today he’s a billionaire having started his own company after leaving ours.


22 posted on 09/18/2018 11:23:41 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: RegulatorCountry

In Raleigh North Carolina, not far from the Research Triangle, the average Software Developer’s salary is about $100,000

See here:

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/raleigh-software-engineer-salary-SRCH_IL.0,7_IM714_KO8,25.htm

The average house prices near Raleigh is about $265,000. See here:

https://www.zillow.com/raleigh-nc/home-values/

If your daughter and husband combined are making $450,000 in Silicon Valley and starters are about $2,000,000, I wonder if they could do better in Raleigh...


23 posted on 09/18/2018 12:09:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hold on, bub. Will these people bring a leftist mind set with them? If so, the jobs and the house are no longer available in NC. Have a nice day. Oh, and stay out of VA.


24 posted on 09/18/2018 12:13:10 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (Grace and Dignity Will Win The Day)
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To: SeekAndFind

No doubt they’d fare better in the RDU area, cost of living is generally a quarter of Silicon Valley, but the pay differential isn’t as large as that. Problem is, the husbands work ties him to there. NC once had a fairly rapidly growing film industry centered upon Wilmington, but that has faded as the state subsidies for it dried up.


25 posted on 09/18/2018 12:21:31 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RinaseaofDs

“I, for one, hope that some gender equality happens in the modeling industry. Male models make about 25% of what female models make. That’s got to stop.”

Absolutely, as a 74 year old white haired male I think it is absurd that some skinny young girl can make a ton of money posing for a camera and nobody wants to take my picture even for free. It ain’t right!! Maybe I should learn to lisp and get some tats and a really weird hair style hmmmmm, let me think on that some. Maybe some shiny, skintight plastic jeans.


26 posted on 09/19/2018 6:16:08 AM PDT by RipSawyer
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To: RegulatorCountry

Tell that woman with the big income that for one year of her gross I will sell her eight acres with frontage on a beautiful small river on the North, two streets on the South and East sides, a blueberry orchard, a huge overhead arbor covered with Scuppernong grapes, two other Muscadine grape arbors, Crepe Myrtle trees, white and red Oaks, Azaleas by the dozen, huge Camelias, Wisteria, Cypress, trust me it’s gorgeous but I am getting too old to maintain it. I will throw in a Terramite backhoe loader, a 48 inch John Deere riding mower, a Kubota compact tractor, a 15 foot canoe and two handmade paddles and a few other items. She can work at home by internet. If she wants to see the ocean it’s only about seventy miles to Myrtle Beach.


27 posted on 09/19/2018 6:27:06 AM PDT by RipSawyer
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To: RipSawyer

That sounds awesome. She’ll never leave though, she grew up in Piedmont, CA, that’s the world to her. Her husband’s business couldn’t survive there, either. My answer is rent until the bubble pops, then take a deep breath and buy while there’s blood in the streets, so they’re insulated against the next bubble. The laws out there are such that they practically guarantee boom and bust in real estate, it’s been going on since at least the 90’s. Get in on the bottom, make out like a bandit. Buy at the top like an idiot, get ruined.


28 posted on 09/19/2018 6:36:40 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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