Real Estate Firm Identifies America's 'Top 25 Tech Cities' (cushmanwakefield.com) 91
Cushman & Wakefield, one of the world's largest real estate firms, launched a new report identifying America's top tech cities. An anonymous reader quotes their report:
Washington, DC has emerged as the promising tech city center after San Jose (Silicon Valley) and San Francisco... A dominating hub for life sciences and government, Washington, DC also serves as a significant outpost for tech companies seeking proximity to policymakers as well as for burgeoning cyber-security investment. The top 25 tech cities were determined by analyzing the concentration of factors such as talent, capital, and growth opportunity -- the key ingredients that comprise a tech stew. The heartiest of these tech epicenters are: 1. San Jose, CA (Silicon Valley); 2. San Francisco, CA; 3. Washington, DC; 4. Boston/Cambridge, MA; and 5. Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC...
Report co-author and Regional Director, Northwest U.S. Research at Cushman & Wakefield, in San Francisco, Robert Sammons, said that while it was not surprising to see San Jose (Silicon Valley) and San Francisco continue to dominate, that mass-transit issues and escalating housing costs in those areas have fanned a tech spillover into secondary markets such as Austin (no. 7), Denver (no. 8), San Diego (no. 9), and Salt Lake City (no. 24)... Mr. Sammons cited cost-of-living in Seattle (no. 6) as a lingering issue, somewhat mitigated by a recent uptick in residential development that's outpacing San Francisco's, as well as mass transit challenges.
There's also several cities in the Midwest among the top tech cities, including Madison, Wisconsin (no. 10), Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota (no. 11), Indianapolis, Indiana (no. 23), and Nashville, Tennessee (no. 25).
Report co-author and Regional Director, Northwest U.S. Research at Cushman & Wakefield, in San Francisco, Robert Sammons, said that while it was not surprising to see San Jose (Silicon Valley) and San Francisco continue to dominate, that mass-transit issues and escalating housing costs in those areas have fanned a tech spillover into secondary markets such as Austin (no. 7), Denver (no. 8), San Diego (no. 9), and Salt Lake City (no. 24)... Mr. Sammons cited cost-of-living in Seattle (no. 6) as a lingering issue, somewhat mitigated by a recent uptick in residential development that's outpacing San Francisco's, as well as mass transit challenges.
There's also several cities in the Midwest among the top tech cities, including Madison, Wisconsin (no. 10), Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota (no. 11), Indianapolis, Indiana (no. 23), and Nashville, Tennessee (no. 25).
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2 San Francisco / San Mateo, CA
3 Washington, DC Region
4 Boston / Cambridge, MA
5 Raleigh / Durham
6 Seattle, WA
7 Austin, TX
8 Denver / Boulder, CO
9 San Diego, CA
10 Madison, WI
11 Minneapolis / St. Paul, MN
12 Baltimore, MD
13 Oakland / East Bay, CA
14 Portland, OR
15 New York City, NY
16 Chicago, IL
17 Atlanta, GA
18 Los Angeles, CA
19 Columbus, OH
20 Orange County, CA
21 Dallas / Ft. Worth, TX
22 Kansas City, MO
23 Indianapolis, IN
24 Salt Lake City, UT
25 Nashville, TN
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I wish we had more tech jobs around here. I'm always getting offers around my area (Syracuse) and housing is very affordable... but the pay isn't exactly great. On the other hand, I can afford to live here. There is also lots to do, I have the Adirondacks just a few hours North East, Finger lakes about an hour South West, hundreds of other parks and natural areas within that radius. All four seasons, so I get to hike, bike, sled, look at foliage, etc. The only thing that isn't really conveniently locat
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Re: Midwest is best (Score:2)
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Sure, but then, it's possible to find 4BR/2Bath homes for ~2.8k a month near Silicon Valley (say, Scott's Valley, Freemont, Dublin, Morgan Hill), and you'll get paid about 3k more a month than in the mid west.
The thing that matters when you do your sums is your total cash left at the end of the month, not how much rent/mortgage costs.
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Sure, but then, it's possible to find 4BR/2Bath homes for ~2.8k a month near Silicon Valley (say, Scott's Valley, Freemont, Dublin, Morgan Hill), and you'll get paid about 3k more a month than in the mid west.
The thing that matters when you do your sums is your total cash left at the end of the month, not how much rent/mortgage costs.
But in the Midwest if you are willing to live an hour outside of the major metropolitan areas you get an extra 1500 sq ft on your home for the same price, plus a nice yard. I'm not saying that automatically makes it better, but it's disingenuous to say you can get the same benefits of Midwest life near the Valley. It just matters what is important to you.
Then again the OP you replied to outright said the Midwest is best, which is a far more ridiculous claim.
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You have a very strange definition of "convenient."
Want to work in Westlake? Yeah, okay, I might buy that. Not to the Valley or beyond though. Hell, just driving from the Valley to Santa Monica sucked balls, and that commute is around an hour shorter than Ventura to Santa Monica.
There's a reason I left, and it wasn't just the cost of housing...
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He wrote a short story on amazon about pooping on the sidewalk, the one reviewer gave it 2 stars.
That was The Cabbage Patch Doll Fight: A Christmas Shopping Tale [amzn.to], about the Cabbage Patch doll in the early 1980's. Overall rating for that ebook is 3.5 stars.
He wrote on slashdot that the problem was that $1 ebooks just aren't popular anymore.
The problem is 1) people are unwilling to pay $1 for 1,000+ words, 2) a $1 dollar ebook can only be discounted to FREE, and 3) I'm no longer a big fan of FREE. My solution is to commission new artwork, consolidate my titles into fewer ebooks (2,500+ words), and raise the price to $1.99.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch has a long article on how the business chan
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I'm pretty sure Christ had something to say about judging others, too. Something about a mote and a beam, right? Where's the Christ-like behavior, creimer?
Look at the Apostles who followed Christ. What did they do most of the time? Argue.
Symptom of a disease (Score:2)
The growth of D.C. is a symptom of the disease of big and growing federal government and growing centralization of power. This is growing lobbying, growing kickbacks, growing corruption, growing waste. D.C. should be near the bottom of the list in private sector wages, GDP, property values, etc.
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I live just outside of D.C., it's an odd place. You are either rich or dirt poor. 47% of D.C. residents are below the poverty line and you can end up in some really bad neighborhoods very quickly if you make a wrong turn.
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As for jobs, DC finds it hard to attract businesses because of its high taxes and regulations. Maryland is not much better. Virginia is more accommodating to business and it show in the Tysons Corner area and out the Dulles corridor.
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As for jobs, DC finds it hard to attract businesses because of its high taxes and regulations.
I thought it was housing prices and the square mileage of ghettos and crime. No?
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The federal government isn't 'fixed' until DC area real estate prices have crashed!
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At least in Canada, Trump isn't the head of government. Think on the brightside.
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Yeah, lived all over the US and Canada, why? What was your beef with Canada? There are similar cultures in Canada and in the US, although I'll grant you it can be colder. But not necessarily colder than the Mountain West.
wrong technology . . . (Score:5, Interesting)
There seems to be some confusion about what the word 'tech' means. We've long ago reduced machinery to a lesser category, however new and clever it might be. For some reason tech is now synonymous with digital electronics and sometimes the software that makes it function, even though there is almost nothing new in these areas in recent decades. Faster, smaller, yadda...
It might be worthwhile to remember that biotechnology has discovered and engineered much that is new in recent decades. Knowledge in this field is increasing at a far greater rate than any other 'tech' area. Not only that but, while electronic gadgets are fun, biotech is far more likely to save your life. Let's have some respect for the work of others.
The hotbeds of innovation are then San Diego and Boston and a few others around the globe (the US doesn't have a monopoly on *this* tech).
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One of the most popular technology teachers on youtube sticks to mechanical technology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
I'd really like to see the top 25 real estate cities for this stuff. Obviously not San Jose. SF, maybe; it wouldn't be the oddest thing in Golden Gate Park.
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swell has a valid point. I know one "Genetic Engineer" who still keeps offices in SF and lectures at SFSU. But she moved her Labwork to Switzerland during Bush II, where they aren't so batshit crazy about Stem Cells having Souls.
Texas is an interesting case, because Johnson was so intent on making his State the center of Aerospace research. It didn't work out that way. The SSC disaster sealed it; very few Physicists consider Texas as a serious place to pursue a career any longer, although TAMU and TI still
Washington DC - alternative explanation (Score:2)
Given all the spying the three-letter agencies do, both on Americans and on foreigners - there's a huge demand for contract work.
After all, the government doesn't want to pay benefits...
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Given all the spying the three-letter agencies do, both on Americans and on foreigners - there's a huge demand for contract work.
I'll say, if they are hiring and giving clearances to boneheads like Reality Winner...
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After all, the government doesn't want to pay benefits...
I get 5 paid weeks of vacation a year, a 401k that matches up to 11%, and excellent healthcare (I have Premera Blue Cross that costs me very little). As well, there is a pension, not huge, but there.
True, I could make more $ on the "outside", but my job is not going away, I will never be laid off.
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Take a huge paycut but do 90% less work and have unparalleled job security.
Well, the joke will be on you. In my field, which is technical, my hours and the nature of my job parallel the civilian world. But please continue to perpetuate stereotypes, keeps my job ever more secure.
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Re: Lack of decent Internet access in most Seattle (Score:1)
Netflix works great over these speeds. You maybe an exception but I think 99 percent of people need FAR less bandwidth than they realize.
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Re:Lack of decent Internet access in most Seattle. (Score:4, Informative)
Having high bandwidth/low latency is more a requirement of MMORPG players than high tech. I've used X11 over DSL. It works. It works just fine on 10 Mbps network connections. Perhaps the desktop you are using just doesn't work well over networks.
Canonsburg PA not in that list? (Score:2)
This was the quality of H1B before Cognescent and TCS and Infos
SJ=OldTech; SF=New hotness (Score:1)
SJ is aging former tech hipsters who are now rotting in suburbia doing things like hardware appliances for storage and being generally conservative and tech-laggards, while the current generation of kool kids on the cutting edge of software are all in SF. Go to any tech meetup in SF vs SJ and you'll see the difference.
Thats what one would expect a real estate firm's ranking list - to them, Old Tech == New Tech == Tech.
It's like asking your cat to rate greek islands.
Here's the deal with Seattle (Score:1)
A lot of people commute from outside of "Seattle" and even King County.
Cost of living (houses) is a non issue if you're prepared to pick something along the Sounder south line stations. The issue is people *want* to live in some trendy Seattle neighborhood.
Meanwhile I'm a 1hr commute via short bus ride and then rail to work, bought a 1800sqft house on a 1/3 acre lot just around the corner from a commercial area (dont have to go far for anything) in the low low 200k range 3 years ago.
Most people think Seattl
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Is that a short (bus ride) or a (short bus) ride?
Top 25 cities for those not already with work? (Score:1)
It's one thing to be in a top list for jobs, but how many of them are friendly towards those that don't already have work?