[KirinDave]

One nitpick I have about this: the peninsula tech scene is huge. It leads in all sorts of places outside of what you'll read about on tech crunch. SSF is a massive hub of Biotech (as is the rapidly expanding UCSF-centered campus in Mission Bay).

Financial technology is rapidly expanding in the city as well, and only the older players in that space have substantial ties to traditional Uber For _____ startup VC firms. Companies like Tally that are genuinely trying to change the relationship. Even big companies like Capital One (my employer) are moving into SF to recruit and acquire because it's where we can recruit the top talent away from people bored on working on Adtech.

There are LOTS of great places to work, not just in the Peninsula & Valley of California but all over the country. SF is just nice because it's a small city with a high density of tech jobs. But I hate to see it defined by the well-publicized caricature of the startup scene. Honestly, it bothers me enough to lead me to bad decision about it.

[arcanus]

Good point, but I'll note that many cities have technology companies that just don't get the press and hype you see for VC backed software companies in SF.

There aren't that many articles about biotechnology in Boston, for instance.

The software paradigm has captured a great deal of mindshare.

[astrodust]

Oh, don't worry, in twenty years we'll all be talking about the Good Old Days when computer tech got respect and money, not like all those biotech firms with their trillions in funding and ridiculously hyped valuations.

Genetic engineers will be the new software engineers and software engineers will be the new plumbers.

[sidlls]

Plumbers can do significantly better than software engineers even today. We are paid relatively poorly for the economic value the companies we work for receive from our labor.

[KirinDave]

One I struggle to undo every day!