Re:Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley...
by headsupftw on Monday December 07, 2020 @08:37PM
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The most important thing is not the airports. All metros have them. The differentiator is the vast number of asian grocery stores, restaurants and other stores/businesses. In America the Bay Area is only behind Los Angeles in that regard.
Re:Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley...
by whoisburbansky on Monday December 07, 2020 @05:15PM
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I'm seeing economy flights round trip from Colorado to Delhi at 1300, rounding up, for Christmas week. Don't really know how much this is due to Covid-related drop in demand, but it seems like a useful data point to put out there, since I've definitely seen similarly priced flights during non-pandemic years.
Re:Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley...
by caniszczyk on Monday December 07, 2020 @06:20PM
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I fly to China quite often from Austin, it's not that bad, you do AUS-DFW-PVR,PEK... you only lose an hour or so for the short hop, the DFW-China leg is basically the same from SFO
Also from AUS, you have Houston and Dallas as two big airport options to get to China.
Looking at air travel - Denver to India or Austin to China - everything is a 1 day+ and over $2000+. SF/LA to these places is about 15 hours and about $1500.
If the business (i.e. Apple/Google making phones) needs to fly execs, production folks as well as if the tech engineers need in person meetings or have family, that's going to be a made much more challenging.