[kilbuz]

I recently moved to SF from a large Midwestern city. I don't know what things used to be like here, but I would say number of job opportunities here compared to where I moved from are somewhere between 20x and 50x. Maybe that's confounded by the access to capital.

Not to mention living here is nice for many other reasons.

[wpietri]

Well, the competition is higher, and a lot of the jobs available right now are not funded by revenue, they're funded by investment. So I think the current picture is misleading.

It is a swell place to live, though. But even that advantage has declined a fair bit. 20 years ago, a lot of places in the midwest were cultural deserts. Books, movies, magazine, ideas: all severely restricted. The Internet has changed that. And San Francisco is rapidly losing the diversity of culture that was a big draw for me.