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Old 11-16-2015, 03:40 PM
 
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There should be an acronym for all of these hot cities besides SF that have tech startups and are also getting heavily expensive/gentrified, and heavily male-skewed.

What are some other up-and-coming cities that have a growing software industry? Not necessarily a startup scene. What are cities that someone from Silicon Valley/San Francisco can relocate to, that aren't Seattle, Austin, or Portland?

Canadian cities qualify as well. However, Vancouver seems to be in the same boat of exploding housing prices, albeit because of foreign investment, not because of tech gentrification.

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Old 11-16-2015, 04:46 PM
 
Location: Palo Alto, CA
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New York and Los Angeles. If your'e in something like gaming, consumer, fin tech, ad tech, etc, those are top choices. Jet.com is in NJ, actually. Of course those cities are not as big tech employment centers as the valley, but both are growing rapidly, both probably have more tech jobs than Austin, and surely more than Portland. There's also Boston area and DC. Neither of those are exactly backwaters.

NYC and LA (aside from their top tier areas) have more affordable housing than the Bay Area, too.
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Old 11-16-2015, 04:47 PM
 
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Raleigh, NC
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Old 11-16-2015, 06:27 PM
 
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This.

Also, surprisingly, there's a strong need for tech in Orlando as well. My company (we're in fin tech) and our industry's biggest competitor (we're located directly across I-4 from each other) have been seeking developer and QA talent for a LONG time and have had to outsource a lot of work to India, because they couldn't recruit enough talent for the open positions in Orlando we've had open for nearly 2 years. However, we're not startup tech, and that's where the younger talent is going. It's enterprise fin tech, which most young people consider boring.

I hear Boston also has a pretty decent tech scene, but I'm not sure if those are companies that want to be in Boston, or if they just start there and move to SF. There are tons of Bostonites here that brought their ideas and companies.
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Old 11-16-2015, 07:40 PM
 
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Boston has not yet given up the ghost on tech. Still a lot going on there.

Also, DC.
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Old 11-17-2015, 03:38 AM
 
Location: Bordentown
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NJ has the "Silicon Parkway" which includes companies like Lucent and AT&T to name a few. Honeywell, Hewlett Packard, Johnson & Johnson, and a ton of other companies of all sizes are scattered throughout North and central Jersey.
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Old 11-17-2015, 03:43 AM
 
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Phoenix, AZ and surrounding areas (Chandler and Scottsdale) have a growing tech presence. Intel, Honeywell, Garmin, Microchip, PayPal, and the Apollo group are a few. GoDaddy and Weebly are some smaller companies.

Boise, ID is trying to do the same. Aside from Hewlett Packard and Micron, they have Supervalue and a bunch of other companies.
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Old 11-17-2015, 10:32 AM
 
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Believe it or not, Detroit.

The caveat is, a lot of it is related to automotive.

But not all of it.
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Old 11-17-2015, 05:23 PM
 
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Believe it or not, Detroit.

The caveat is, a lot of it is related to automotive.

But not all of it.
I am glad to hear this. I was mentioning this to someone a while ago... companies should open up shop in cities like Detroit instead of the silicon valley in order to attract talent and gentrify the cities. Moving away from coasts and to cities that are ether blighted or struggling financially makes a lot of sense.
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Old 11-18-2015, 02:37 PM
 
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I am glad to hear this. I was mentioning this to someone a while ago... companies should open up shop in cities like Detroit instead of the silicon valley in order to attract talent and gentrify the cities. Moving away from coasts and to cities that are ether blighted or struggling financially makes a lot of sense.
The problem is getting the talent to move to cities that are blighted or struggling financially.
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