Re:Silicon Valley offices less empty than other regions
by ghaff on Thursday December 29, 2022 @01:38PM
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It's a generalization but I'm not sure it's really unfair.
I'm pretty sure that most people moving to SV/SF or most high cost areas really do so because they (or their partner) got a good job offer there, and especially in the case of tech and northern California, because there's a high density of other job possibilities as well.
People do just decide they want to move someplace but I doubt a lot choose the Bay area unless there's a job offer attached.
Re:Silicon Valley offices less empty than other regions
by almost_usual on Thursday December 29, 2022 @04:07PM
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The Bay Area offers great weather and nature. More people would live here if it weren’t so expensive.
That's a broad and unfair generalization and implication. People decide to move for all sorts of reasons, and then perhaps a job determines a destination. People who move to a cheaper location (which can be young people starting a family or retirees or any life stage in between) are also putting cost or quality of life "ahead of friends, community, and likely family."
If you are a person who makes friends you will make friends in your new community. Ubiquitous networking lets you keep in touch to the level you wish with friends and family. When I go back to my home country I see friends with whom we just pick up mid-conversation as if I'd just been over their home the day before.
Life has been so for thousands of years. Not necessarily a sacrifice as you frame it.