The Bay Area particularly many East Bay cities blocked development
because they didn't want the "urban sprawl" like Los Angeles has.
Accordingly housing prices went up including rents. In the late 1990s
there was talk of building high speed rail between the Bay Area and
Central Valley where the maintenance workers for the tech plants could
afford to live. So we said let the tech companies pay for it. Nope,
they didn't want to.
It looks like Amazon is spread out all over Seattle and sounds like a
horrible company to work for (read the article I posted yesterday). I
once had a phone interview with one of the Amazon tech labs (located in
the Bay Area). These go badly because the smartasses who give the
interviews are like robots and narrow minded. Besides I wasn't
interested in being a programming grunt. I'm more suited to herd them.
On 08/16/2015 10:10 AM, jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
A friend of mine from Seattle told me that it has changed
significantly since I left in 2004. But I prefer to remember Pike's
Place Market the way it was, particularly the small restaurants that I
used to eat in for lunch.
IMO, San Francisco will always be here in spite of the earthquake
danger. There is a historic and economic reason why it exists and
flourishes in the peninsula.
On the other hand, there are several companies in the Silicon Valley
who have moved to Reno, NV mainly because the city is offering land,
space and NO taxes. IMO, Reno made a good move since the gambling
business is being affected by the competing Native American casinos
near the big cities in California.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote :
Ol' Glenn boy would really hate to live in a Blue City. Portland is
very provincial though and why it is so quirky. Seattle has gotten
weird and overgrown. San Francisco has it's own quirks and has also
become overgrown so much that I would wince if I needed to have a
meeting in the city. All these cities have become very expensive to
live in with San Francisco and the area leading the way.
I guess I shouldn't complain. The house catty-corner from me sold in
a week for a hansom price so I can probably make a good profit selling
this one. Why companies like Google seem to want to remain
centralized in the South Bay is beyond me because there is plenty of
vacant office complexes in the East Bay and affordable housing at
least for an overpaid techie.
In the late 1980s I worked on a major product sitting in a dusty town
in Eastern Washington. It worked because there was UPS, Fedex and
modems. Today even that little town has broadband. Glenn would
probably love the place too though I think the locals wouldn't
particularly like him.
On 08/15/2015 09:02 PM, jr_esq@... <mailto:jr_esq@...>
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
According to Glenn Beck, Portland, OR is on top of the list. San
Francisco, CA is second and Seattle, WA is the third. What do you think?
Glenn Beck names 15 cities that 'you don't want to live anywhere
around;' San Francisco is number 2
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