[quote=deadzone]Uh, San Diego has always been a transplant city. Nothing revolutionary happening here, other than 10+ years ago the transplants didn’t announce their moves on Facebook or Linkein.
Regarding freelancing and working from home/remote, no shit who wouldn’t want to do this given the choice? But reality will set in for the majority of folks who don’t necessarily have the leverage to force that on their employers.[/quote]
As mentioned above the first half of this is correct. We have always had a large share of people relocating here for work. The second half is what is different.
I love talking to people in every day life and hearing their stories. I do it almost every day multple times. Its why I think I might enjoy driving uber some day to meet lots of interesting people and hear their stories. That would be fun for me.
I live in an active social community and meet lots of new folks all the time. The stories have always been overwhelmingly we moved here for work. Now the stories are overwhelmingly we always wanted to live here and now we can. Ive met numerous folks working remotely and living here by choice. Not just engineers but also executives, freelancers, business owners running businesses far away and more.
Yesterday morning met a guy who moved down a few months ago from Silicon Valley. Spent the last decade plus at one of the FAANG companies. Shares are up more than 50X since he started there. Most of that the last few years. Left his job and taking a year off to spend with his young kids. Already loves it here and said they’ll never leave. Non-stop visitors from Silly Valley. Still owns the house there and plans to sell that in 2 years while he can still take cap gain exclusion. Knows he can easily get a job with his experience anywhere he lives whether remotely or not if he decides to go back to work. Doesnt have to.
Ive been having conversations with people that way in my daily life for more than 20 years here. Nearly everyday I meet people with stories that are far different than what I had been hearing the last 2 decades. The world has changed and even moreso around here
