Intel's $20B Ohio factory could become world's largest chip plant

Re:Intel's $20B Ohio factory could become world's largest ch... by kragen on Friday January 21, 2022 @07:38PM (#30031849)

I lost three years of the prime of my life to living in Dayton. It was one of the biggest mistakes I made in my life, one from which I will probably never be able to recover. I did miss the mountains but that wasn't the real problem. I got way more negative and insecure from living there, I had to work at appallingly terrible companies like Reed Elsevier, and I stagnated intellectually. It's the most racist place I've ever lived, and I've lived in Texas. Dayton's idea of a startup is an Amway distributor with a big downline. My ex-brother-in-law had a job making actual things (he's a machinist, specialized in wire EDM, and yeah he's honest) and ended up having to leave Ohio because the economy sucks and the government actively impedes progress. Now he works at Boeing.

I'm sure Pat Gelsinger knows a thing or two I don't about Intel's chances to prosper in Ohio. But Intel's chances to prosper are not individuals' chances to prosper.

The people claiming Intel's employees are "low skill" have no idea what they're talking about.

OSU is apparently pretty good though, and there's apparently a decent startup scene in Columbus now.

But I'm still going to share my experience (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30028203) so other people can take it into account when they're deciding whether to move there or not. I did piss off, thank God.

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Re:Intel's $20B Ohio factory could become world's largest ch... by tptacek on Friday January 21, 2022 @08:35PM (#30032247)

I'm sorry you had a bad time at a place.

But what does your comment even mean? "Texas" is your benchmark for how racist places are? Where in Texas? It's about as large as the average country. If you lived in Austin, or in the city of Houston, or in Dallas, you lived in a place with substantially more Black folks than San Francisco.

Dayton, for what it's worth, is a weird benchmark for the state of Ohio. It's a declining city with a troubled economy.

The Intel factory is apparently being sited on the outskirts of Columbus. Columbus is not Dayton, any more than Ann Arbor, MI is Livonia or Cadillac.

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Re:Intel's $20B Ohio factory could become world's largest ch... by FullyFunctional on Friday January 21, 2022 @08:53PM (#30032380)

Nothing tptacek wrote merited such a rude and abrasive comment.

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