[ben7799]

I have this weird view/feeling that the Bay area opportunities have steadily shifted towards all the negative stuff over the past 20 years. It's obviously not the whole picture but it tarnishes the reputation.

It's like everything "bad" about tech has seemed to grow out of SV, as if it's become the place for grifty companies to find tech workers who don't care about what they're working on as long as it makes money.

You maybe could have quantified things like how far away workers typically have to live from the office, how bad traffic is in these cities, etc.. Traffic figures are often available in terms of "hours wasted annually".

It seems most of these cities are "horrible" on things like traffic though.