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Poll: Do you live in Silicon Valley?
2 points by capableweb on Feb 5, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
The previous Poll about where people live ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30210378 ) was supposed to answer the question if HN is mostly used by people who live in Silicon Valley, but failed to include Silicon Valley as a location (closest option was California, but many people who live in California doesn't live in Silicon Valley) + had bunch of unrelated options that didn't need to be there.

Here is a poll that only tries to answer that question, and that question only.

"Live" as in main residence (spends most time of the year there).

"Silicon Valley" as in the Silicon Valley that is geographically located in the southern San Francisco Bay Area of California

No, I don't live in Silicon Valley
8 points
Yes, I live in Silicon Valley
1 point



As somebody who has children and is not single I will take an order of magnitude less pay to live away from the valley. It seems from many other people I have spoken to offline that once lived in the valley I am not alone in this thinking.

The valley has amazing job opportunities for software developers and incredible weather. Transportation there, thinking BART, sounds incredible too.

Houses there used to be 8-12x more than where I live but are now more like 6-7x more and everything costs more there such as food, fuel, taxes, utilities, and so forth. The valley also has a subculture that many other Americans find a bit politically extreme with strange local politics practiced by elected authorities.


Linkified URL to previous Poll:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30210378 - Poll: Where do you live?




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