Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area?

Re:Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area? by krenoten on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @05:22PM (#13180223)

I've been far happier as an engineer in NYC and Berlin than SF. Gentrification has made SF a pretty boring place to be, and I felt that my overall sense of creativity plummeted there when I was surrounded by so few people from different backgrounds.

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Re:Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area? by westoncb on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @05:32PM (#13180299)

Agreed. I ended up moving across the bay and living in Berkeley while working in SF just for that reason.

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Re:Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area? by pascalxus on Thursday December 15, 2016 @07:32PM (#13190062)

I don't think there's nearly as much gentrification as people say there is, overall. I mean sure, there's a huge amount of gentrification in the 20% of SF that is not rent controlled: there only the super rich can live.

But, as for the other 80% that's rent controlled, lots of it is pretty dilapidated, almost borderline 3rd world country in some parts. 1% (7k people) of the SF population is homeless and even more are nearly there (despite over 240 million$ a year spent fighting homelessness).

Perhaps the reason people find SF boring is due to the hollowing out of the middle class.

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Re:Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area? by ido on Thursday December 15, 2016 @05:50AM (#13183725)

It's kinda funny though, as people in Berlin at least (I'm sure in NYC too) are constantly complaining about gentrification too :)

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