Why won't tech jobs move to the burbs?

[agaace]

Great thread, thanks everyone! Great insights, Thom52, Xanathos and 87112. I agree fully.

Guess it's just a symptom of me getting old (mid 30s) that I grew tired of Seattle. Just wish the tech sector wasn't so "ageist" (is that even a word?) and considered the needs of older folk as well and the terrible commute we're suffering. From my experience you can throw a million interns on a problem and you will get a million partial, half broken solutions. You need people with at least some experience to guide any growing product, period. Unless you want to build a house of cards. Or have the resources to keep building houses of cards, replacing one with another after it fails. But that is a whole another story.

[mhays25]

Originally Posted by Hemlock140

Unfortunately, this doesn't work for many people. Consider Issaquah Highlands, for example, where very few residents work there. The retail/restaurant staff cannot afford it. The Park & Ride fills up early with people taking a bus to Seattle, and traffic is nasty in the afternoons. Metro changed the routes for the 216 and 219 to accommodate more people from IH, so they now have those as well as the 218 and ST 554 to Seattle.

Issaquah Highlands is all new, with "new" prices. Let it age. Better yet, maybe they could build more smaller units so they can be a bit cheaper from the start.

I'm not really talking about that kind of place anyway. I mean Renton, Bellevue, Lynnwood, Auburn, etc. All have varying price levels, including town centers with buildings of multiple ages.