Airbnb will build a new tech hub in Atlanta

>>7d7n+(OP)
First Microsoft and not Airbnb.

As if our traffic didn't qualify us as the LA of the East.

Seriously though, metropolitan Atlanta is a great area to live with three major interstates going through the city and a very well developer surrounding area. With many businesses adopting more lenient WFH policies the drive is not always a concern. Schools are generally a good mix of public and private as with any area.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2021/02/11/investing-to-gro...

>>pratik+Xb
As a developer in Chicago, I think it's because the finance sector sucks up a lot of the talent, and it's less known for marquee non-finance companies. The city has struggled to promote our tech scene.

The company I work for participates in UIUC's City Scholars program[0]. If you work for a company in Chicago, push for them to participate. It introduces the students to Chicago's tech scene.

0: https://cityscholars.engineering.illinois.edu/

>>pratik+z9
California has a huge advantage in the form of no non-competes: https://www.vox.com/new-money/2017/2/13/14580874/google-self..., NYC has a huge advantage in the form of the subway and sheer size, and so on. It's surprising to me that more states don't outright ban noncompetes and build out subway networks, but they don't.

>>avolca+zb
Yet residents keep voting down subways: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/long-resistant-metro-atl....

>>softwa+X5
"flight" from the SF Bay Area radically overstated: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/People-are-leavi...

>>jselig+8j
DC's non-compete ban should go into effect later this year https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/d-c-mayor-signs-bill-to-ba... and they have a subway network. Will be really interesting to see what affect this has (though of course it'll be difficult to tease out).

It's possible most non-competes will be banned nationally (US), see https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/biden-can-free-mil... and https://joebiden.com/empowerworkers/#:~:text=Eliminate%20non...

>>SOLAR_+bb
I'd say knock off more considerably than 10-20%, at least compared to this cost of living calculator:

https://www.nerdwallet.com/cost-of-living-calculator/compare...

$150k in Austin equates to $236k in Seattle (knock off 35%)

$150k in Austin equates to $296k in SF Bay (knock off 50%)

>>bitcha+J8
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>>deeeep+YZ
Once macys.com gets a page with all the tech they open-sourced that is actually used at a ton of places outside of the company, similar to that of Airbnb[0], then we can talk.

Out of the ones I personally worked with, Enzyme[1] is pretty much the de-facto industry standard for writing React unit tests. Airflow[2] is used very commonly (our team at a big known non-tech company I used to work at used it about 5 years ago), and so is Lottie[3]. And these are just the ones off the top of my head, given that I actually got to use those. They have many many more that seem to have a pretty high usage. And their tech blog is very insightful, I learned quite a bit from it myself when it comes to my development skills.

And no, I neither was nor currently am employed by Airbnb, not a big user of theirs, not paid to say any of this, and I have no particular liking towards them at all.

0. https://airbnb.io/projects/

1. https://airbnb.io/projects/enzyme/

2. https://airbnb.io/projects/airflow/

3. https://airbnb.io/projects/lottie-android/

>>sudost+dk
I agree 100%! One of the reasons I moved to Athens was I wanted to live in a creative community in a part of the country I had never lived before. Now that I'm a parent I can't until we can travel again so my 4yo can experience some other cultures, here and abroad. There's too much tribalism, and when it comes down to it most of us want the same things[1]

What's funny is when we moved, we actually considered Asheville, too, but decided to go a little bigger. When we lived in Athens it was rare we'd visit Asheville and not run in to someone we knew, or saw that a friend's band from Athens was playing. There is (or was, at least) a lot of reciprocity between the two music scenes.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX5MHNvjw7o#t=6m36s

>>SOLAR_+bb
You can narrow it down by city, e.g.

https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/Atlanta-Ar...

https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/Greater-Au...

https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/San-Franci...

That shows Austin median at 62% of SF, FWIW.

>>techni+jD1
This is a common meme, but "a lot of talent is leaving Silicon Valley for Miami" is anecdotal and not backed up by any data I've seen, such as USPS address changes[1]. Other places in California are getting most of the people leaving, with Austin and Portland being the only external metro areas I've seen in the top 20.

Miami isn't even a blip on the "where people are going" radar statistically, but the hype and anecdotes could always make it a reality long-term. I have my doubts, personally.

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/People-are-leavi...