Re:Ask HN: Are SF and NY the best cities for programming jobs?
by chatmasta on Thursday July 28, 2016 @10:57AM
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I've lived in both -- SF for an internship and NYC as a startup cofounder for a year.
Coming from a university where 90% of people go into banking (NYC), and as someone who has never really enjoyed socializing with computer science people outside of work, I prefer NYC to SF. It's nice to leave work and chill with people of a different variety than I interact with all day. No talking shop, just hanging out with friends.
There's no shortage of programming jobs in either city, and the salaries minus cost of living are roughly equal. The biggest difference to me is that SF is a monoculture centered around tech, whereas NYC has a couple different monocultures, banking being the dominant one.
I really despise monocultures in general so I like that NYC has options to choose from. Also, lots of my friends live there.
All that said, I'm now a "digital nomad" traveling the world and switching cities every month. I am 100x happier now than I was in either NYC or SF.
Coming from a university where 90% of people go into banking (NYC), and as someone who has never really enjoyed socializing with computer science people outside of work, I prefer NYC to SF. It's nice to leave work and chill with people of a different variety than I interact with all day. No talking shop, just hanging out with friends.
There's no shortage of programming jobs in either city, and the salaries minus cost of living are roughly equal. The biggest difference to me is that SF is a monoculture centered around tech, whereas NYC has a couple different monocultures, banking being the dominant one.
I really despise monocultures in general so I like that NYC has options to choose from. Also, lots of my friends live there.
All that said, I'm now a "digital nomad" traveling the world and switching cities every month. I am 100x happier now than I was in either NYC or SF.