Because startups can’t compete with Facebook and Google paying developers $100K+ just so they can live like sharecroppers in insanely overpriced housing.
“Because startups can’t compete with Facebook and Google paying developers $100K+ just so they can live like sharecroppers in insanely overpriced housing.”
As one who has lived in the Bay Area for 78 years, and seen, and sally in some respects, been a part of the SV, I’d love to see it ALL go away! This was a place above all others in which to grow up, live, get married, and raise a family. All of this is gone. Our son (46) is in the “medical device” industry here, who with his working wife brings in $300k per year, wants to move to Montana. We were all in Fallon, Nevada this past weekend, and while it’s kinda a hard scrabble place in some respects, the people there still retain the values we all used to have in California! You can buy farm-fresh fruits and vegetables and ammo for your guns without a “state license” to do so.