On: Google Plans Large New York City Expansion

[C1sc0cat]

And also for those with kids you have to think about them i.e. what opportunities will they have living in this area when they leave school.

[closeparen → C1sc0cat]

Why would a kid stay in the same area after leaving school? That was categorically out of the question for my graduating classes.

[mac01021 → closeparen]

To remain near family?

To help shape the future of the community that rasied them?

What was deal with your class? You lived in the middle of knowhere and the only option would have been farming or mining coal or something?

[malmsteen → mac01021]

Sense of adventure / lower familial pressure.

You can always come back to "shape the community" (so american ^^) later

[mac01021 → malmsteen]

Europeans, Asians, etc don't see themselves as an influence on the place they live?

[barry-cotter → closeparen]

It’s a social class thing. Most Americans live very near where they grew up.

www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/387736/

> Of all respondents, about 54 percent said that they lived in close proximity to where they grew up.

nypost.com/2018/01/11/a-shocking-number-of-americans-never-leave-home/amp/

> 11 percent of survey respondents have never traveled outside of the state where they were born.

[closeparen → barry-cotter]

I agree. But if you’re a Google employee, you and your offspring are in the social class that can afford to move wherever makes sense.

[_khau → closeparen]

Why?

[closeparen → _khau]

You go to the best college you can get into, wherever it is, and then to the best job you can get, wherever that is. Our city was okay, but our school system and community values were not calibrated to produce contentment with mediocrity.

You might pass on opportunities for social stability reasons in middle age, but as a 22-year-old you jump without hesitation.

People sometimes migrate back when their own kids are school-aged.

[jswizzy → _khau]

Because people are attached to their family and friends and also most don't realize that any able body person with an IQ of 100 and a decent work ethic could easily make six digits if they relocated to the right area.

[ben_w → jswizzy]

Where could any randomly selected person from the upper 50% of the population by IQ move and earn >$100,000? Even with your caveats, though at that pay I do wonder why “able bodied” is important.