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0 pointsno_wizard3y ago0 comments

I didn't say Portland or Seattle specifically.

Bend, OR is perfectly pleasant, for instance.

I'll also say that San Fransisco's reputation has taken many hits for similar reasons. Its not a zero sum situation.

Just to reiterate, I did say Pacific Northwest, not just those two cities. There are great amazing places in both.

Just outside of Portland for instance is Hilsboro, Beaverton etc.

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systemvoltage3y ago· 2 in thread

I don't think that will change anything. Those places will succumb to the same politics. You're not looking at the root cause.

kodah3y ago

I don't think it's politics so much. The problem with developing all or most of our software on the coasts is that a few things will happen:

- The coasts, which have a wildly different culture than much of the US if not the world, develop an outsized influence on and in software

- It removes people from their families for no reason eg: Tech is not like Wall St in the 90's where you needed to be there to be successful

- Tech is lucrative and it concentrates money in the innovation core of the US, which then prices out poorer states over time eg: How long will people in the middle of the US be able to afford the next iPhone if iPhone pricing is commensurate with the California standard of living and cost model?

systemvoltage3y ago

Practically all tech is run by liberals, and large percentage are hard-left progressives. Their values are being pumped through the tech industry they've created and it is imposed through all platforms around the world.

I'd like to see more diversity of ideas, not some 100 people writing Twitter algorithms in SV where they have zero clue about how the rest of the world works.

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