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2014-05-19 23:20:04.73279+00 by Dan Lyke 2 comments

To consider: The economics of young tech workers moving to SF vs the economics of Central American migrant workers coming to the U.S.

[ related topics: Bay Area Economics ]

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#Comment Re: made: 2014-05-20 04:53:27.113346+00 by: ebradway

Sort of like when you first move to California from Tennessee... There are some costs that change, like housing, and many that remain the same, like cars. In the end, young tech workers moving to SF are operating at a higher level of Maslow's hierarcy than the migrant workers.

#Comment Re: made: 2014-05-20 18:09:48.1045+00 by: Dan Lyke

Yeah, but they're similarly coming in and packing umpteen to an apartment and...

I wonder what the relative economic success and eventual departure rates are on each.