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 smsm42 on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @05:57PM (#13180501)

I live in the BA and work in tech, and I'm not super-stressed. Neither my peers seem to be. It doesn't mean we don't work - but not more stressfully than I'd expect to work anywhere else. Maybe I'm just lucky.

The downside is everything is so expensive. Housing, of course. But also everything else too, services, other things. If you can live frugally, it may be to your benefit - you get higher income and keep low spending, win. But if you can't or work lower income job, it may be a problem.

The upside is there are a lot of exciting opportunities around, both in employment and in conferences, lectures, events, etc.

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Re:Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area? by josh_carterPDX on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @07:15PM (#13181067)

Totally. The nice thing about being in Portland is that the Bay Area is only an hour and a half flight. We still have family down there so we spend some time there, but we have kids. So one big reason we left the Bay Area was just to find better quality education and we definitely do not regret the move after finding amazing schools here.

But to your point, there are some great events and conferences which is probably the biggest thing missing from Portland. There are a few good events, but nothing at the scale of what happens in SF.

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Re:Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area? by csdreamer7 on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @10:15PM (#13182098)

Somewhat off topic.

I thought Portland's, and Oregon's schools in general, are not that good. Unless you are talking about private schools.

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