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[Victor Minton <vminton AT mindspring.com>]

Hi,

The FIRST issue is getting a job.  Their is no reason to believe the job
market is better on the left coast than here in the Triangle.

It is my understanding the the failure of many S.F. based dot.coms has left
a large pool of unemployed or underemployed developers.

Unless of independent means, get a job before moving rather than move and be
unemployed.

Good luck,
Vic Minton




on 11/5/02 8:02 AM, Michael Winslow Czeiszperger at michael AT czeiszperger.org
wrote:

> 
> On Tuesday, November 5, 2002, at 07:04 AM, Thomas C. Meggs wrote:
> 
>> It would seem to me though the only issue you are driving here is the
>> cost of purchasing housing. Realistically, how many people right out
>> of school jump into building equity in a house? And the cost of
>> renting places in SF _has_ gone down, I can assure you that. I didn't
>> say he should live in San Francisco forever, I said I'm sure being
>> right out of school he would enjoy it a lot.
> 
> The housing cost is simply the more striking of the cost differences;
> everything else is much more expensive as well, which especially comes
> to bear on someone with a starting salary.
> 
> The problem I see with the SF area is for some reason its been
> portrayed as a wonderful place to live, and I can't seem much, if any
> reasons why it even comes even with other cities. Here's some reasons
> why:
> 
> Cons:
> * Some of the worst traffic in the nation.
> * Very low public funding to such institutions as libraries and schools.
> * Enormous homeless population, often one every twenty feet in downtown
> at lunchtime.
> * High crime rate
> * Everything is more expensive
> * Smell from the urine and feces on the streets and public parks.
> 
> Pros:
> * Good food
> * Good symphony, opera, etc, although they are so expensive to attend
> no one on a starting salary can afford them.
> * Good music
> 
> ------------------------------
> michael at czeiszperger dot org
> Chapel Hill, NC
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