Ask HN: Advice for a 25 yr old moving to SF?

Re:Ask HN: Advice for a 25 yr old moving to SF? by kleer001 on Saturday March 04, 2023 @10:55PM (#35026788)

25 eh? I envy you. You're frontal lobes have just come online. You can finally make good long term decisions.

Sadly the time to move to the SF bay was in the early 1990's. So, don't chase someone else's dreams.

Your goals can be met easily by going to university. Actually, best met. Go. You're not done learning, you've only just begin. Don't feel weird that you'll be 5-7 years older than everyone else. Just be cool. Keep your head down, filter your friends fiercely. Don't be a creep or a douche, haha. Then graduate with a degree and a wife and a bevy of friends.

Don't want to go to university? Making friends is going to be 1000x harder. No joke.

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Re:Ask HN: Advice for a 25 yr old moving to SF? by 49erfangoniners on Sunday March 05, 2023 @01:30AM (#35027384)

Anyone 25+ can tell there is so much ego and condescension in this comment that its author is instantly discredited

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Re:Ask HN: Advice for a 25 yr old moving to SF? by quickthrower2 on Sunday March 05, 2023 @03:42AM (#35027953)

Yeah and I don’t think he has talked to many of the wise 18 year olds out there: there are loads of them!

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Re:Ask HN: Advice for a 25 yr old moving to SF? by 0xy on Sunday March 05, 2023 @04:58AM (#35028243)

Ah yes, take on $200,000 in debt for a worthless degree instead of just starting your career. This advice is predatory, considering the rapidly diminishing value of degrees in the tech industry.

Universities prey on the young in order to bankroll the burgeoning university administrative class.

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Re:Ask HN: Advice for a 25 yr old moving to SF? by kleer001 on Sunday March 05, 2023 @11:55PM (#35037638)

There's plenty of universities in the world with nominal fees.

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Re:Ask HN: Advice for a 25 yr old moving to SF? by gnatman on Monday March 06, 2023 @09:28AM (#35041391)

Sounds like you're telling OP not to chase "someone else's dreams" and instead to chase YOUR dream.

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Re:Ask HN: Advice for a 25 yr old moving to SF? by kleer001 on Monday March 06, 2023 @03:33PM (#35047177)

That's the very definition of advice, an opinon. Esp considering their 4 points.

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