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Little do they know that SV is just as desolate? Most of the big tech firms are 1-2 hours away from SF in suburbia.

Not only that, but isn't there a massive shortage of single women there? I guess the Millennials aren't interested in dating....

What does this have to do with anything? And why do you assume all "Millenials" in tech are either male or exclusively interested in women?

He's talking about millenials who work in tech and he assumes it because the vast majority are straight men, which is why there is the "lack of women there" to begin with.

If you are a man (dating wise) it's better to be in NYC (Honestly don't know anything about San Diego). If you are a woman it's better to be in SV or SF.

>If you are a man (dating wise) it's better to be in NYC

Yes, but then the problem there is there aren't a lot of tech jobs in NYC that aren't soul-crushing finance jobs.

You're getting downvoted but this is a practical concern. The large military presence also skews things.

Can you name one "big tech firm" that is 2 hour away from SF?

Apple, depending on traffic or how you get there.

^^^ exactly! People just don't understand how bad the traffic and transportation systems around here can be, especially the northbound evening commute hours.

My choice would have been IBM though, being as far as I can recall the most distant major tech campus from San Francisco. It's 90 minutes by car or 3 hours by train.

nobody moves to the bay area to work for IBM

Had a couple colleagues when I lived in Austin leave for SF to work for IBM...

I think it's safe to say that literally thousands of people have moved to the Bay Area for work for IBM.

South Bay is 1-2 hours from SF, pretty much any company in San Jose can be 2 hours from SF depending on traffic

I work in SF near the Transamerica Pyramid. Sometimes I go to meetups at or near Samsung in Mountain View. I have to leave at 5 to get there by 6:45 if I'm lucky. And, that's after finding lower-traffic routes. Otherwise, half of the trip is just getting through the city.

Most of them are near a 2 hour drive, if you are anywhere around commute hours and you live in a typical (not right off the freeway) area in SF. To name a couple, Intel and Cisco.

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