Google setting up shop in NYC (is west cost devestated?)

Google just unveiled the details of its massive NYC expansion. Amazon has already revealed the details of its massive NYC expansion. Apple setting up shop in Austin. Three mega tech giants moving beyond the west coast.

This raises the question - is the west coast devestated? Are liberal tech nerds going to have to leave their beloved homeland of California?

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not big tech devestated... west coast devestated. extension = decentralization and decentralization is big bad news for the west coast

 
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Expansion is not devastation. You've got the wrong idea, not impressed with your analysis.

thots & prayers
 

Los Angeles is on its way up. DTLA is going to be the next urban revitalization story.

San Francisco is another story entirely. Long run, SF is the next Detroit, and I don't mean the new cleaned up Detroit, but I mean Detroit in the bad old days. Detroit collapsed when the auto industry thought they were invincible. Right now, Silicon Valley thinks its invincible and immune to disruption--ironic since 20 years ago they were the disruptors, and now they are the stodgy institutions.

Seattle and Portland are going to remain a curiosity but mostly irrelevant. Bad weather, worse people.

 

Google adding 7,000 jobs in NYC is a monster expansion? They're adding 25,000 in San Jose alone. Not sure about the devastation. The thing to worry about for the West Coast is once VCs/execs start moving east in droves, and even then it's not clear it's a zero-sum game.

 

As much as I find California libs retarded, I don't think it's the driving cause.

I mean, they picked NYC and Austin? Those are still uber liberal bubbles. Sure the legislation is more business friendly than Cali but not significantly less (except Austin).

Never discuss with idiots, first they drag you at their level, then they beat you with experience.
 

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