Silicon Valley job seekers are increasingly looking for work elsewhere
I interviewed out in San Francisco right out of college, and was struck by how strongly I did not want to move there. The primary drivers were cost - unsurprising - but also attitude. I don&#x27;t buy into a lot of the SV culture, I don&#x27;t find it encouraging, and I wasn&#x27;t really willing to tolerate it just to work for a slightly cooler or higher-paying company than the ones I could find in the Midwest.<p>I guess I can&#x27;t blame SV for that - I am just clearly not a fit for it - but I can&#x27;t help but wonder whether there are people out there now who are more like me than they realize, and might be happier elsewehere (or would go elsewhere if they reasonably thought they could).