portland global cities team challenge corridor

Whether your sentiments lean pro or anti Silicon Valley these days, this collection of resources and city rankings should be useful. In 2011 it was one in seven.Īreas where Bay Area residents search for homes on : The real-estate listing firm Redfin reports that one in four people in the Bay Area are now searching for homes outside of that area (see the chart below for where they are looking). Reports point toward a growing exodus of people, which presumably includes software developers. I left because I couldn’t afford to live in the Bay Area anymore, even on my generous six-figure Facebook salary. Not because of the job-I loved working at Facebook. When I said yes, I was filled with excitement. It was my dream job, in a place that always had an almost mythical allure to me. That's true even on a six-figure salary at Facebook, as Matt Kulka shares on Vox: While demand is high for developer talent, many software engineers are planning on leaving, or have decided not to come to the San Francisco Bay Area in the first place because the average developer can't afford a home anywhere near where they work. It's clear to most developers that Silicon Valley's high cost of living-especially housing-is a problem.

Portland global cities team challenge corridor