Google expanding to accomodate 30,000 new hires in the Bay Area

[Scott456]

Originally Posted by NoMoreSnowForMe

Ruth4Truth, don't their shuttles go to Oakland and Berzerkly? Rents will probably go up. But, I guess if you spread 30,000 techies out all over the Bay Area, their total impact won't be so bad?

Google will send shuttles to wherever employees are, and most young people prefer living in the city of San Francisco. So employees decide where shuttles go, not the other way around.

[Dave Coe]

Are they hiring Americans or just importing more h1b's from China and India? Even so The region doesn't really have the housing to accommodate these new workers unless Google started building high rise residential around it's campus but that would be opposed by the local nimbys. Google needs to build a campus in a place that has a shortage of jobs and cheaper realestate.

[Dave Coe]

Originally Posted by NewbiePoster

What if they set up a new center around Livermore? Then that whole area of Dublin, Livermore, Pleasant Hill, even Tracy, could serve it. And it would be somewhat out of the way of the main traffic patterns. The problem with the idea of expanding inland, eastward, is that the younger demographic they're attracting generally prefers to live in SF or Bayside, somewhere. Still, a job's a job, right? A career's a career. If there was an influx of Google workers in those towns, businesses would sprout up to cater to them. Who knows, Dublin or Livermore might become happening places. lol

It would cause more sprawl in those regions.

[opossum_]

Originally Posted by Scott456

Google will send shuttles to wherever employees are, and most young people prefer living in the city of San Francisco. So employees decide where shuttles go, not the other way around.

Hopefully, the one way mission to Mars will be happening soon.

[MikeNigh]

30K holy sh*t