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That is not true. I have been to Hong Kong seven times; it's one of the fastest paced cities in the world. And yet I'll say that Silicon Valley can come close in terms of working hours, how status-obsessed it is.
I think people are looking at Silicon Valley, and saying, "Oh, it's suburban. Not very crowded at all. Must be more laidback than Manhattan, Wall Street's hustle and bustle, pedestrian traffic." BUT remember high tech is THE fastest changing, most competitive industry on the planet, and Silicon Valley is the center of it. People in high tech work longer hours, face more competition than any other industry. And by and large Silicon Valley has a larger tech sector than D.C.
Austin is High tech. Doesn’t mean it’s fast paced. I work in tech. Have worked for four or five tech companies. We work but u wouldn’t say it’s fast paced.
Significantly better than LA? Hmmm... don't know about that. Do you think LA driving is fairly pleasant?
wut? I never said this.
As for driving in LA, I think the traffic there is overrated. It wasn't great but it wasn't terrible either. It largely depended on where you were going and often times I was going against the flow of traffic so that had an impact. Note that as a visitor I have the ability to not drive during commute hours, so that also had an impact...but outside of commute hours in either city, I didn't see anything that stood out from anywhere USA in terms of traffic in major cities. I would say overall LA is worse than SF though.
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Austin is High tech. Doesn’t mean it’s fast paced. I work in tech. Have worked for four or five tech companies. We work but u wouldn’t say it’s fast paced.
This... and I personally very much enjoy this, as I can work remotely 5 days a week without having to go in the office, deal with traffic.
Has anybody ever sat back that thought to themselves that being a fast paced city isn't necessarily a good thing? We're talking about people rush to get to a job, spending long hours at that job to make somebody else rich. The CEOs of these places that people rush to work for aren't the ones rushing. Innovators aren't rushing.
Has anybody ever sat back that thought to themselves that being a fast paced city isn't necessarily a good thing? We're talking about people rush to get to a job, spending long hours at that job to make somebody else rich. The CEOs of these places that people rush to work for aren't the ones rushing. Innovators aren't rushing.
I gotta get out of this Worker Bee culture ASAP.
Yes. and fast pace does not always equal more productive either.
As for driving in LA, I think the traffic there is overrated. It wasn't great but it wasn't terrible either. It largely depended on where you were going and often times I was going against the flow of traffic so that had an impact.
Either that or you must have been driving in the carpool lane.
Fast pace is baked into the very essence of tech. It’s always who is going to be faster to produce a faster product? Faster processors, faster frame rates, etc. It’s an innate part of tech.
And I think unless you’re really at the top reaches of government, there’s not a sense of urgency. So, I hand it to Silicon Valley for this one.
As others have mentioned, no, that pace isn’t always good. It’ll wear on you.
I have a buddy who moved to the Bay Area from Atlanta a couple years back. He had this as his FB status this morning and I thought about this thread and chuckled:
"The Bay Area really be moving waaaaay too slow for me sometimes. Like if y'all don't put them edibles and coke bumps down so we can handle business. Whew."
Has anybody ever sat back that thought to themselves that being a fast paced city isn't necessarily a good thing? We're talking about people rush to get to a job, spending long hours at that job to make somebody else rich. The CEOs of these places that people rush to work for aren't the ones rushing. Innovators aren't rushing.
I gotta get out of this Worker Bee culture ASAP.
Nobody is saying it’s a good or bad thing. It just is. Same with the southern thing. Idk why people think it’s bad to be southern
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