On 2/2/2011 1:23 PM, Brian Conrad wrote: > On 02/01/2011 06:44 PM, Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru) wrote: >>>> it's still pricey compared to what I can do in Oakland... >> I have a brother who lives in Alameda. I crash at his house when >> I'm in town. Can't beat the price! >> > I've never understood why tech startups locate in San Francisco > other than for prestige. SF is expensive real estate and most people > can't afford to live there. Much more affordable is the East Bay. > The best location to live is the South Bay if you want to play high > tech roulette as far as jobs go.
It's not like houses in the South Bay are cheap, though. My brother is following that path -- he works at Apple now, and he ended up with a ~$1M house. I'll be crashing down there after the GDC is over, for sure. :) SF is an easy commute from the East Bay; I lived in Alameda for a couple years, and I occasionally did the ferry commute (the office was on Montgomery and later moved over close to the ferry building). Sitting on a ferry on the Bay in the morning, using your laptop (plugging it in, even!) on a table, buying a snack at the cafe on-board, oh man, that was an awesome commute. > During the dot com boom housing there go so unaffordable that > maintenance people for the tech offices could no longer afford to > live there. There were grandiose ideas of providing high speed rail > so they could commute in from the Central Valley. There are plenty of places within a short commute of San Francisco that aren't crazy expensive to live. I didn't hear about the high speed rail fantasies, though they have been extending Bart in fits. And, full disclosure, I wasn't willing to live in any of those less expensive areas myself; instead I moved to Boulder, and now I'm doing Android (and iPhone) work as an indie game developer. Tim -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
