I moved to the Silicon Valley in 1995 and still here. The first month I was here there was an article in the local paper about people and companies fleeing California because of taxes, regulations, blah blah blah. in 1998 I bought a house in Berkeley for $300K and people at the time told me I was nuts to spend that much money on an old house. It's now worth 5 times what I paid for it. I first came to San Francisco while following the Grateful Dead in 1976. I stayed with my cousin and his girlfriend while th
It may not be a rinse/repeat like in decades before. One unlike 20 years ago, there are no electronic places like Radio Shack, Weirdstuff, HSC, Halted (yes the last two were difference places in the days), and when electronics flea market had good stuff. We go back before then to 70s and 80s there was a lot more electronics places, getting a house with a garage was more available to many income levels than it is now (a lot of companies began in garages). Also people had more spare time and disposable income to start a company. Also more opportunities for many levels of people to get jobs even though many of them were boring jobs like those at Memorex Flexible Disc manufacturing but at least better than back breaking work in the hot sun. Also back then college education will not set you back zillions of dollars.
Working in the Silicon Valley (Score:5, Insightful)
I moved to the Silicon Valley in 1995 and still here. The first month I was here there was an article in the local paper about people and companies fleeing California because of taxes, regulations, blah blah blah. in 1998 I bought a house in Berkeley for $300K and people at the time told me I was nuts to spend that much money on an old house. It's now worth 5 times what I paid for it. I first came to San Francisco while following the Grateful Dead in 1976. I stayed with my cousin and his girlfriend while th
Re:Working in the Silicon Valley (Score:2)