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America's fastest-growing tech cities aren't all on the coasts
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2017 Jun 20, 5:55am 1,576 views 9 comments
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anonymous
2017 Jun 20, 7:08am
I'm surprised Pittsburgh PA isn't on there. Ripe for the picking, it's America's most investable city
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zzyzzx
2017 Jun 20, 10:36am
zzyzzx
2017 Jun 20, 10:36am
Thousand Oaks CA is 5 miles from the ocean
Some of the other cities mentioned are on the coast, like Jacksonville. Baltimore can possibly be considered on the coast as well, I mean we do have beaches and a major port here.
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HeadSet
2022 Jul 7, 1:09pm
HeadSet
2022 Jul 7, 1:09pm
anonymous says
Yes, the satellite cities around Pittsburgh, such as New Kensington, have exceptionally low priced homes. Older but well built homes leftover from when the area was a steel manufacturing powerhouse.
I'm surprised Pittsburgh PA isn't on there. Ripe for the picking, it's America's most investable city
Yes, the satellite cities around Pittsburgh, such as New Kensington, have exceptionally low priced homes. Older but well built homes leftover from when the area was a steel manufacturing powerhouse.
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B.A.C.A.H.
2022 Jul 7, 3:17pm
B.A.C.A.H.
2022 Jul 7, 3:17pm
Folks sitting around desktops that are WIFI'd to the world, or hardwired to a server in the office building creating apps and web pages and writing code are not doing "tech".
Real tech involves expensive hardware like the Berkeley Cyclotron, bleeding edge applications labs at Applied Materials, and shitty little machine shops all around the bay making tight tolerance parts for Applied, Tesla, etc.
Real tech involves expensive hardware like the Berkeley Cyclotron, bleeding edge applications labs at Applied Materials, and shitty little machine shops all around the bay making tight tolerance parts for Applied, Tesla, etc.
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Patrick
2022 Jul 7, 4:30pm
Patrick
2022 Jul 7, 4:30pm
B.A.C.A.H. says
That's what I've done for more than 25 years, and I agree.
Programming is more like literature than science or tech. You're generally not trying to discover or invent anything, you're just getting familiar with what has already been written by other people (docs, languages, examples) and then applying that previous work to your current problem.
Folks sitting around desktops that are WIFI'd to the world, or hardwired to a server in the office building creating apps and web pages and writing code are not doing "tech".
That's what I've done for more than 25 years, and I agree.
Programming is more like literature than science or tech. You're generally not trying to discover or invent anything, you're just getting familiar with what has already been written by other people (docs, languages, examples) and then applying that previous work to your current problem.
if you're looking for a job in tech, you might have a better chance looking elsewhere.
The places with the biggest growth in the sector aren't on the coasts, but are mostly small and midsize cities in the U.S. interior.
Job-listing company ZipRecruiter looked at a year's worth of job postings for technical jobs and ranked the 20 locations that had the biggest growth. The results were surprising. Cincinnati, Ohio, was No. 11 on the list, with a 96 percent increase in tech job listings from last year. Cleveland and Columbus were Nos. 12 and 14, respectively, each with growth rates over 80 percent.
ZipRecruiter defined a technical job by its content, not its employer. For example, receptionists working for software companies didn't count as tech jobs, but network administrators did, regardless of what company they worked for.
"We're getting to a moment where our largest cities are becoming almost an untenable living situation for young people. They're so expensive and crowded. In order to live somewhere affordable, you have to live one-and-a-half hours away from the city center," said Cathy Barrera, chief economic adviser for ZipRecruiter.
"A lot of younger people are looking to move to more manageable cities," she added.
These cities fit the bill. With populations between 100,000 and 1.5 million, in most of them a median house can be had for $200,000 -- affordable on a tech salary. The 10 fastest-growing areas for tech jobs.
1. Huntsville, Alabama
2. Thousand Oaks, California
3. Phoenix, Arizona
4. Albany, New York
5. Kansas City, Missouri
6. Orlando, Florida
7. Salt Lake City, Utah
8. Nashville, Tennessee
9. Jacksonville, Florida
10. Baltimore, Maryland
There are some caveats to note: ZipRecruiter doesn't have a lock on job listings, and the companies it deals with tend to be small or midsize, which skews the numbers somewhat. But the trends it unearthed are backed up elsewhere.
Note: This is one of those click the next page article but information on median salaries etc. included for each city.
More: http://www.cbsnews.com/media/americas-top-10-tech-cities-arent-on-the-coasts/7/
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