[MagicPropmaker]

I work for a start-up with offices in Sunnyvale, California. Our staff is mature people who have done this before and want the best place to establish an office and work.

None of us would dream of living or working in San Francisco. We all live and work in and around Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Santa Clara, etc.

For a mostly-hype startup staffed by kids fresh from Stanford, Harvard, and MIT, I suppose the flashier the offices the better and that may mean the "excitement" of San Francisco. We're in a concrete tilt-up close to everything we need.

[benatkin]

I think they were talking about the whole bay area. If they were talking about moving out of SF to another part of the Bay Area, SF is way more central than Silicon Valley.

Edit: I realize you would be near their old offices. Still, if they're looking to find the most entrepreneurs that they can who aren't motivated by hype, the more central from a transportation perspective, the better. And there is no place in the bay area that you can expect people from all parts of the bay area to come to other than SF.

[rconti]

Maybe central by geography but not by population.

[nemothekid]

I think its only recently that SF office space surpassed Mountain View. Startups originally moved to SF because it was cheaper.

[chocolatebunny]

I would have thought Sunnyvale would be pretty pricey too. It's like right between Google and Apple.

[MagicPropmaker]

Exactly! But for some reason young people moving to CA to "make it" wouldn't dream of living here.