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What Makes a City Appealing to High-Tech Workers?
WGR writes "The City of Ottawa, Canada is starting to re-write its Official Plan, the "charter" for a city. [A few weeks ago] we had a 5 day Smart Growth Summit that was webcast online with discussion groups and web interactivity. Ottawa is fairly strong in the high-tech sector as it is, with NortelNetworks and JDS-Uniphase having their biggest presence here and had over a $1 billion of venture capital last year. But how do you keep a livable city when you expect to have a 50% population increase in 10 years? One idea came from Dr. Richard Florida from Carnegie-Mellon University. He said that "knowledge workers" want to go to places that have the 3 T's, "Technology, Talent and Tolerance". That is, where there already is a lot of technology, where there is a rich artistic and entertainment sector, lots of educational opportunities, where there are a lot of people with similar interests and where there are people from many diverse backgrounds and lifestyles. But not necessarily low city taxes.
Do you agree, and what would be your ideal city to work in?"
The fact that you think your deviant, perverted lifestyle is ok proves that you have been brainwashed. Either that or you're logging in from BizzaroWorld. So a person with high standards and a clean life is a "slug". Hmm... "Slugs" like me didn't turn a beautiful city like San Fran into a cesspool, transport and spread deadly diseases to the N. American continent, rape 13-year old boys to death, etc. Statistically, your life will be much shorter than mine due to the diseases and mental problems associated with your lifesstyle choice. I guess the "slug" will have the last laugh after all.
BTW, the PHBs at the top don't listen much to the code monkeys doing the work or the middle managers in between, so going to them is an even bigger waste of my time.