Rents in Megacities Can't Go Up Forever

Re:Rents in Megacities Can't Go Up Forever by vonmoltke on Thursday March 23, 2017 @10:25AM (#13939982)

Houston is, for some definition of "tech". It's just more focused on petroleum and ocean engineering, which don't get a lot of play I'm these circles.

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Re:Rents in Megacities Can't Go Up Forever by ghaff on Thursday March 23, 2017 @01:06PM (#13941690)

Exactly, people in certain circles have this somewhat self-referential definition of tech that means "what they do a lot of in Silicon Valley." And ignore things like the oil industry or pharma/biotech which are very much tech but just don't happen to have much presence in SV.

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Re:Rents in Megacities Can't Go Up Forever by mturmon on Thursday March 23, 2017 @03:29PM (#13943307)

This whole thread, unfortunately, is conflating "tech" with "information tech". When talking about "big picture" stuff like national real estate trends and macro-economics, the HN bubble is limiting.

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Re:Rents in Megacities Can't Go Up Forever by _delirium on Thursday March 23, 2017 @03:45PM (#13943482)

There are a ton of even pretty straight-up tech jobs in those industries, e.g. ExxonMobil's Houston office has a large machine learning group.

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