California has been losing people for a few years now. Covid-19 might speed it up – but a mixture of very high house prices and politics is driving this. The nuttier wing of the Democrats are in charge and wreaking havoc. 100,000s a year are leaving.
thea.brescia
3 years ago
Friends who were closely connected to Silicon Valley culture, tell me they were tired of the alcohol and cocaine fueled gatherings after work hours. And the lockstep, pressurized leftist atmosphere leaves little room for original thinkers, political moderates. Good article by Peter Franklin!
Fraser Bailey
3 years ago
Well I know that Silicon Valley kills Covid information or views that do not align with the pro-lockdown obsession it shares with Biden and all forms of authority. So it would be ironic if Covid were to kill Silicon Valley. But I don’t think it will happen.
Ian Barton
3 years ago
A great observation, that the best way to reinvigorate “original and disruptive” thinking is to get as far away as you possibly can from illiberal group thinkers before you get sucked into their vacuum.
I have been everywhere in USA and Canada (and a lot of the world) and here is my advice: The Silicon Bayou. Mobile Alabama! Even Airbus moved there for its USA operation (to enable it to get US Military contracts as USA, unlike the stupid Brits and EU requires its military gear to be made in country, check out the last big USA footwear manufacturers, make all the military footwear, a vital strategic resource, and jobs because they have to be made in USA.)
Anyway, I know Mobile and it is amazing! Sort of like New Orleans but without the crime. Fantastic nature, unbelievably great nature! Nice people, good race relations (note they had no issues wile the West was rampaging), great property prices, water everywhere, fantastic weather, (excepting hurricanes, but now you can build for those), some arts/foodie/cultural/gay scene. Mobile is just perfect for taking on the Silicone leadership. You guys who do not know the Deep South do not realize how nice it can be because stereotypes which are not valid.
Want to leave NYC, Cincinnati, Chicago, California, Seattle-Portland, Baltimore, Greenbay, and all the other Democrat hell-holes for a great location? Mobile, just do not wreck it in the process.
GA Woolley
3 years ago
No, it’s the ruling Democratic Party’s union-controlled woke obsession which is driving businesses away. High taxes to meet unaffordable public worker pensions, green policies driving up energy, water, and property prices, and identity politics ‘diversity’ dogma forcing universities and colleges to discriminate in favour of low-performing minorities and against high achievers is adversely impacting the intellectual seedcorn for ‘information age’ businesses. The State is bankrupt; its inequalities are in the highest tier of states, property prices going through the roof, and crime rates soaring. The public worker unions bankroll the Democrats, dictate which party candidates can stand, and far outspend rivals. The big corporations can afford to stay, for now. Many small and medium ones are getting out before the state implodes. California, like many other Democrat-controlled states and cities, is banking on Biden for a federal bailout.
Carl Goulding
3 years ago
Covid is a biological virus and Bigtech have thrived on this and will continue to to do so. What we really need is the equivalent computer virus to sweep through their ranks!!
cognitronz
3 years ago
The pandemic is certainly a catalyst, but California has been undermining its attractiveness for people who has the means. All these woke trends like calling your colleagues team members are falling flat. Maybe it’s time for the wokeologists to get a dose of what individualism means when voluntarily confined to their own house.
Team members always annoyed me before I retired, mostly because it was blatantly obvious to a man with one eye that everyone of ‘my team’ were stabbing backs like Jack the Ripper on speed and only out for themselves. Another one I hate: When a firm calls their staff colleagues. You pay their wages they are staff. Maybe it’s an age thing, call me old fashioned.
Maybe you just weren’t very good? Technical skill is what counts in this world, as long as you are able to perform, be valuable and pass muster non of the BS matters.
California has been losing people for a few years now. Covid-19 might speed it up – but a mixture of very high house prices and politics is driving this. The nuttier wing of the Democrats are in charge and wreaking havoc. 100,000s a year are leaving.
Friends who were closely connected to Silicon Valley culture, tell me they were tired of the alcohol and cocaine fueled gatherings after work hours. And the lockstep, pressurized leftist atmosphere leaves little room for original thinkers, political moderates.
Good article by Peter Franklin!
Well I know that Silicon Valley kills Covid information or views that do not align with the pro-lockdown obsession it shares with Biden and all forms of authority. So it would be ironic if Covid were to kill Silicon Valley. But I don’t think it will happen.
A great observation, that the best way to reinvigorate “original and disruptive” thinking is to get as far away as you possibly can from illiberal group thinkers before you get sucked into their vacuum.
Hard to hold a conversation in an echo chamber.
I have been everywhere in USA and Canada (and a lot of the world) and here is my advice: The Silicon Bayou. Mobile Alabama! Even Airbus moved there for its USA operation (to enable it to get US Military contracts as USA, unlike the stupid Brits and EU requires its military gear to be made in country, check out the last big USA footwear manufacturers, make all the military footwear, a vital strategic resource, and jobs because they have to be made in USA.)
Anyway, I know Mobile and it is amazing! Sort of like New Orleans but without the crime. Fantastic nature, unbelievably great nature! Nice people, good race relations (note they had no issues wile the West was rampaging), great property prices, water everywhere, fantastic weather, (excepting hurricanes, but now you can build for those), some arts/foodie/cultural/gay scene. Mobile is just perfect for taking on the Silicone leadership. You guys who do not know the Deep South do not realize how nice it can be because stereotypes which are not valid.
Want to leave NYC, Cincinnati, Chicago, California, Seattle-Portland, Baltimore, Greenbay, and all the other Democrat hell-holes for a great location? Mobile, just do not wreck it in the process.
No, it’s the ruling Democratic Party’s union-controlled woke obsession which is driving businesses away. High taxes to meet unaffordable public worker pensions, green policies driving up energy, water, and property prices, and identity politics ‘diversity’ dogma forcing universities and colleges to discriminate in favour of low-performing minorities and against high achievers is adversely impacting the intellectual seedcorn for ‘information age’ businesses. The State is bankrupt; its inequalities are in the highest tier of states, property prices going through the roof, and crime rates soaring. The public worker unions bankroll the Democrats, dictate which party candidates can stand, and far outspend rivals. The big corporations can afford to stay, for now. Many small and medium ones are getting out before the state implodes. California, like many other Democrat-controlled states and cities, is banking on Biden for a federal bailout.
Covid is a biological virus and Bigtech have thrived on this and will continue to to do so. What we really need is the equivalent computer virus to sweep through their ranks!!
The pandemic is certainly a catalyst, but California has been undermining its attractiveness for people who has the means. All these woke trends like calling your colleagues team members are falling flat. Maybe it’s time for the wokeologists to get a dose of what individualism means when voluntarily confined to their own house.
Team members always annoyed me before I retired, mostly because it was blatantly obvious to a man with one eye that everyone of ‘my team’ were stabbing backs like Jack the Ripper on speed and only out for themselves. Another one I hate: When a firm calls their staff colleagues. You pay their wages they are staff. Maybe it’s an age thing, call me old fashioned.
Maybe you just weren’t very good? Technical skill is what counts in this world, as long as you are able to perform, be valuable and pass muster non of the BS matters.