Soaring housing costs forces talent to flee Silicon Valley

  • This was posted yesterday with like 80 comments, search for it.

    On the other post I posted in response to this article:

    I think that maybe more accurate for entry level developers. Housing is an issue to work around for sure.

    Seattle - Yes (but also quite expense)

    Austin - Yes to a less degree

    Portland - Maybe.

    All of these are great cities with plenty of dev jobs. You really need a strong CS program to build around if you want think about not moving to Silicon Valley. University of Washington totally fits that bill, as does University of Texas- Austin, but I would have to guess that Portland has a good local university (but I'm not familiar with it from afar like the others)

  • The standard of living is so low here, it blows my mind. Top end engineer? House from the 60's, which people consider "nice".

  • would be good to know the age demographics