[RPLong]

The funny thing is that I just wrote a blog post about people who make pedantic side-comments and act like this defeats the over-arching argument.

You began by suggesting that the cities I mentioned weren't in the Midwest. In other words, you began by ignoring my point. Now you're pulling sentences out of context to still rub against the point.

My point, now as then, was that places such as the cities I mentioned are increasingly attracting the best tech sector job applicants, and that New Yorkers ought to take the time to ask why that is. No matter what other pedantic problems you can find with my basic phraseology, my point stands. Ask yourself, why are places like Nashville growing so much? And why are there multiple such cities? And why are companies like TD Ameritrade shifting their employees out of New York and into Omaha and Dallas?

I don't live in Nashville, but I think it's a nice city. Low taxes, low cost of living, slow pace of life, no urine smell in the streets, and for the price of a NYC shoebox, you can have a 5-bedroom house with a nice yard. It's tough to argue against that lifestyle once you've lived it. I don't know many people who move back to NYC.

So, as I said, New Yorkers ought to think about that. If New York companies want to attract the best job applicants, then they ought to think about what else they can offer, seeing as how they can't offer 5-bedroom houses with nice yards and low tax rates.

[wgerard]

> You began by suggesting that the cities I mentioned weren't in the Midwest

Because I agree the midwest has a low CoL. But people are moving to cities like LA, which don't. Even cities like Denver are starting to experience large CoL increases, so I'm not even really sure what your point is.

> My point, now as then, was that places such as the cities I mentioned are increasingly attracting the best tech sector job applicants

What are you basing this on? It seems silly to assume that the population growth in these cities is entirely tech-driven.

> New Yorkers ought to take the time to ask why that is

Why?

> Ask yourself, why are places like Nashville growing so much?

Why do low cap stocks sometimes grow explosively compared to high cap stocks?

Answer: When you're smaller, it's easier to grow at faster rates.

> I don't know many people who move back to NYC.

I do, so I guess we're at an impasse here.

> If New York companies want to attract the best job applicants, then they ought to think about what else they can offer

Large salaries, obviously. Opportunities, if you want that. Tim Hockey lives in the NYC area, not Omaha.