Startups Ditching Silicon Valley For New Cities (economist.com)

The rising cost of living in Silicon Valley is pushing startups out, the Economist reports, and re-focusing innovation in new cities around the country [Editor's note: the link may be paywalled; alternative source]. From the story: More Americans are leaving the Valley than moving to it. In 2017 several counties in the area saw their largest combined domestic outward migrations in around a decade. In a recent survey by the Bay Area Council, a think-tank, 46% of Bay Area residents said they planned to leave in "the next few years," up from 34% in 2016. This is not just a case of people of more modest means being pushed out by carpet-bagging techies. At this year's "FOO camp," a freewheeling annual gathering of hackers and others, a session called "Should I/you leave the Bay Area?" saw a strong turnout. Participants shared their gripes about the high cost of living, bad traffic and a "toxic" culture obsessed with money.

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Re:Makes perfect sense

[PPH]

Plenty of "chicks".

Re:Makes perfect sense

[PopeRatzo]

But once you're 35, the 'night life game' starts to become pretty unimportant

That's true. For me, wild nightlife means putting a few drops of cannabis oil in my CPAP machine.