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Real Estate Firm Identifies America's 'Top 25 Tech Cities' (cushmanwakefield.com)
Cushman & Wakefield, one of the world's largest real estate firms, launched a new report identifying America's top tech cities. An anonymous reader quotes their report:
Washington, DC has emerged as the promising tech city center after San Jose (Silicon Valley) and San Francisco... A dominating hub for life sciences and government, Washington, DC also serves as a significant outpost for tech companies seeking proximity to policymakers as well as for burgeoning cyber-security investment. The top 25 tech cities were determined by analyzing the concentration of factors such as talent, capital, and growth opportunity -- the key ingredients that comprise a tech stew. The heartiest of these tech epicenters are: 1. San Jose, CA (Silicon Valley); 2. San Francisco, CA; 3. Washington, DC; 4. Boston/Cambridge, MA; and 5. Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC...
Report co-author and Regional Director, Northwest U.S. Research at Cushman & Wakefield, in San Francisco, Robert Sammons, said that while it was not surprising to see San Jose (Silicon Valley) and San Francisco continue to dominate, that mass-transit issues and escalating housing costs in those areas have fanned a tech spillover into secondary markets such as Austin (no. 7), Denver (no. 8), San Diego (no. 9), and Salt Lake City (no. 24)... Mr. Sammons cited cost-of-living in Seattle (no. 6) as a lingering issue, somewhat mitigated by a recent uptick in residential development that's outpacing San Francisco's, as well as mass transit challenges.
There's also several cities in the Midwest among the top tech cities, including Madison, Wisconsin (no. 10), Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota (no. 11), Indianapolis, Indiana (no. 23), and Nashville, Tennessee (no. 25).
Report co-author and Regional Director, Northwest U.S. Research at Cushman & Wakefield, in San Francisco, Robert Sammons, said that while it was not surprising to see San Jose (Silicon Valley) and San Francisco continue to dominate, that mass-transit issues and escalating housing costs in those areas have fanned a tech spillover into secondary markets such as Austin (no. 7), Denver (no. 8), San Diego (no. 9), and Salt Lake City (no. 24)... Mr. Sammons cited cost-of-living in Seattle (no. 6) as a lingering issue, somewhat mitigated by a recent uptick in residential development that's outpacing San Francisco's, as well as mass transit challenges.
There's also several cities in the Midwest among the top tech cities, including Madison, Wisconsin (no. 10), Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota (no. 11), Indianapolis, Indiana (no. 23), and Nashville, Tennessee (no. 25).
1. San Jose, CA (Silicon Valley); 2. San Francisco, CA; 3. Washington, DC; 4. Boston/Cambridge, MA; and 5. Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC...
Obvious man is obvious.
After figuring in cost of living, midwest is best.
It possible to find a house 4 BR 2 Bath home for about 1-2 K per month with 30 year mortgage. Try doing that in CA.
Isn't that where they poop all over the sidewalks?
Denver's real estate prices rose 36% last year. Thanks, tech industry, now no one can afford to live here too!
The growth of D.C. is a symptom of the disease of big and growing federal government and growing centralization of power. This is growing lobbying, growing kickbacks, growing corruption, growing waste. D.C. should be near the bottom of the list in private sector wages, GDP, property values, etc.
Compare job listings in Seattle (6) and Austin (7). There's about an order of magnitude difference in Seattle's favor.
... Vancouver and Toronto (both expensive) or Montreal (or even Ottawa) would fit on this list. Granted, no US real estate company can or will include them in their surveys but I would think many people might find them more interesting than, say, Indy or KC.
So the city with the largest battery factory in the world, the largest data center in the world is not even on there?
There seems to be some confusion about what the word 'tech' means. We've long ago reduced machinery to a lesser category, however new and clever it might be. For some reason tech is now synonymous with digital electronics and sometimes the software that makes it function, even though there is almost nothing new in these areas in recent decades. Faster, smaller, yadda...
It might be worthwhile to remember that biotechnology has discovered and engineered much that is new in recent decades. Knowledge in this field is increasing at a far greater rate than any other 'tech' area. Not only that but, while electronic gadgets are fun, biotech is far more likely to save your life. Let's have some respect for the work of others.
The hotbeds of innovation are then San Diego and Boston and a few others around the globe (the US doesn't have a monopoly on *this* tech).
...omphaloskepsis often...
Given all the spying the three-letter agencies do, both on Americans and on foreigners - there's a huge demand for contract work.
After all, the government doesn't want to pay benefits...
#DeleteChrome
pretty much kills Seattle as a place to live if you can't afford to live in one of the few buildings where Wave has gigabit service. My street is limited to 1.5 Mbps DSL, and Comcast has said for years that they're going to provide service, but still haven't. Sucks trying to work from home using remote desktop.
Cool story troll.
I use remote desktop at 128kbps tethered to my phone, so yeah. You lying.
Netflix works great over these speeds. You maybe an exception but I think 99 percent of people need FAR less bandwidth than they realize.
Netflix works great over these speeds. You maybe an exception but I think 99 percent of people need FAR less bandwidth than they realize.
Of course, the corollary to that is that 99% of people use far more bandwidth than they realize.
I wish I had a good sig, but all the good ones are copyrighted
This was the quality of H1B before Cognescent and TCS and Infosys crashed the party and brought in imbeciles from Mohammad Badsha College of Engineering, Boondocks district, Middle of Nowhere, India...
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
SJ is aging former tech hipsters who are now rotting in suburbia doing things like hardware appliances for storage and being generally conservative and tech-laggards, while the current generation of kool kids on the cutting edge of software are all in SF. Go to any tech meetup in SF vs SJ and you'll see the difference.
Thats what one would expect a real estate firm's ranking list - to them, Old Tech == New Tech == Tech.
It's like asking your cat to rate greek islands.
Having high bandwidth/low latency is more a requirement of MMORPG players than high tech. I've used X11 over DSL. It works. It works just fine on 10 Mbps network connections. Perhaps the desktop you are using just doesn't work well over networks.
Have gnu, will travel.
How is this news for nerds, stuff that matters?
(This post is sarcastic, intended to mock people who keep posting this stupidity in earnest).
A lot of people commute from outside of "Seattle" and even King County.
Cost of living (houses) is a non issue if you're prepared to pick something along the Sounder south line stations. The issue is people *want* to live in some trendy Seattle neighborhood.
Meanwhile I'm a 1hr commute via short bus ride and then rail to work, bought a 1800sqft house on a 1/3 acre lot just around the corner from a commercial area (dont have to go far for anything) in the low low 200k range 3 years ago.
Most people think Seattle ends at Renton, very few look at the commuter rail, how quick it is and how far it gets you, they see Kent, Auburn, Sumner and Puyallup as not cool "too far away" places to live. Puyallup/South Hill is a ton better than most places around Seattle in general to live unless you've got 600k and up to spend.
Cross reference this real estate firm's interest with the list and then you are not surprised when you can think of a number of cities that should rank above at least ten of this list with uniformly better scores in ALL of the suggested areas. Just a clickbait slashvertisement for this company.
> I've used X11 over DSL. It works. It works just fine on 10 Mbps network connections. Perhaps the desktop you are using just doesn't work well over networks.
QT is _especially_ bad over "low"-bandwidth links. FLTK, Motif, and even GTK appear to be built with network transparency in mind.
It breaks my heart to hear people say "X11's network transparency doesn't work over DSL!" when -really-, they're just using some shitty QT program whose GUI thinks all the world runs on the same machine.
A high proportion of WHITE people. And few non-whites...
It's one thing to be in a top list for jobs, but how many of them are friendly towards those that don't already have work?
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
Nashville, TN is in absolutely no way a midwest city.