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And we've been through many a cycle like this and various industries have been hit harder than others through the years. It's an ebb and flow. Furthermore, U.S. unemployment rates are enviable. Perspective is critical, though I recognize many on FR have lost that and seem to be more than willing to join in the pity party. Mr. Gun left Seattle as soon as he saw the shift beginning. No one will take care of your career for you - and seeing the handwriting on the wall is a critical skill.

I disagree with you that this is just part of the ebb and flow. Never before have we had a Trade and Budget deficit like today's. Never before have we given away technology to a Communist country. Never before have we offshored millions of heretofore American jobs. Never before have we had so little manufacturing. Never before have we been dependent upon even hostile nations for our own military purchases. Never before have we allowed 1.2 million visa workers stay here taking American jobs while Americans are unemployed. Never before have so many illegals crossed our borders and taken so many jobs. Never before has the middle-class been gutted like this. No, this is not part of the ebb and flow.
And, like Mr. Gun, tens of thousands of previous Silicon Valley residents have already left. The traffic is remarkably less and the cost of housing/rents have dropped-off. Unfortunately, there are not enough places/positions to handle all that have lost their jobs.

You don't know what it is like to have a 17 year stellar career, going from $16,000 a year starting to $70,000 a year then have it all taken away from you because your company decided to send your work to a guy named Ramesh in Hyberdad India, oh yeah, after you train him everything you know or learned. We aren't whining, just shocked that we too are on the unemployement line, having excellent career experience AND CAN'T get an interview, not one interview.