Google Plans Large New York City Expansion

Re:Google Plans Large New York City Expansion by lallysingh on Thursday November 08, 2018 @05:56AM (#18405499)

I don't know about that. The two most common spouse occupations, of people I knew at Google in NYC, were lawyer and some sort of financier. Often (more than a few of those I knew) the spouse made more money and Google was effectively daycare for the other.

And in hotbeds like NYC, with the opportunities all over town, there's little career reason to go somewhere else. If Google left NYC, they'd lose most of their engineering team to other tech firms in the city.

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Re:Google Plans Large New York City Expansion by ghaff on Thursday November 08, 2018 @08:25AM (#18406055)

The draw of NYC is also at least somewhat unique. I went to grad school with a lot of NY natives. A lot of them really cannot imagine living anyplace else. What? You can't do X at 3am? Inconceivable.

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Re:Google Plans Large New York City Expansion by throwawaymath on Thursday November 08, 2018 @09:06AM (#18406297)

As someone who lives in New York City, that rings true to me. I remember being taken aback the first time I visited a smaller town and heard the ice cream shop was closed at 8 pm on a Sunday. It took a period of adjustment before I realized I was the odd one :)

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