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Re:Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area? by reality_czech on Thursday December 15, 2016 @02:40AM (#13183108)
It's really cold and wet all the time. Non-compete agreements are valid so prepare to be screwed over if you change jobs. You don't have the California code on your side if you want to do a side project-- it will be owned by your employer. Amazon will work you like a rented mule and that bald guy in charge is creepy as fuck. Traffic in Seattle is worse than the Bay Area (yes really). They can't expand I-95 because they made the decision to tunnel it through a building (long story)
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Re:Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area? by automatwon on Thursday December 15, 2016 @03:52AM (#13183331)
I've actually worked at Amazon in the past. My experience wasn't that bad. And I'm a actually a Seattle native! For some reason, the traffic there never really bothered me.
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Re:Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area? by chris_7 on Thursday December 15, 2016 @07:54AM (#13184233)
> They can't expand I-95 because they made the decision to tunnel it through a building (long story)

Expanding highways makes traffic worse.

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Re:Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area? by closeparen on Friday December 16, 2016 @02:18AM (#13191663)
Expanding highways makes traffic acceptable for more people (no change or slight dip in latency, but more throughput) which increases housing supply.
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