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Participant[quote=svelte]
Which mid-sized SUV is a matter of preference, you know what you like.[/quote]From Car and Driver,
https://www.caranddriver.com/features/g15380025/best-small-compact-suv-truck/
You also attend San Diego International Auto (12/30-1/2) to check out and test drive cars.
Participant[quote=svelte]
Which mid-sized SUV is a matter of preference, you know what you like.[/quote]From Car and Driver,
https://www.caranddriver.com/features/g15380025/best-small-compact-suv-truck/
You also attend San Diego International Auto (12/30-1/2) to check out and test drive cars.
Participant[quote=Coronita]If I had to get something it would probably be a Hyundai Ioniq 5
If you don’t want to get gouged with a Toyota Highlander or Lexus RX or NX SUV….
You can consider getting yourself a Mazda CX5. They are pretty nice inside, and have pretty good gas mileage. Slightly underpowered, but good fit and finish and decent reliability. Size-wise, the CX5 is roughly the size of a RAV4
Galpin Mazda has over 61 CX5’s in stock. So they aren’t going to be marked up.[/quote]
How about Honda CR-V and Mazda CX-50?
Participant[quote=FormerSanDiegan][quote=EconProf]
But I must correct a couple of commentators that suggest San Diego is not losing population. As reported in early May, it lost 11,183 people from July, 2020 to July 2021. You can google it for the various news sources.
That’s population declining for the past two years.[/quote]I googled it and the first thing I found was the opposite of what you stated.
In God we trust. Others must bring data.https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/23129/san-diego/population
[img_assist|nid=27720|title=San Diego population|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=100|height=46][/quote]
Oftentimes the first thing that shows up in your google search query might not be the best one. In this particular case, data that is cited by EconProf is of higher quality. Per U.S. Census Bureau population estimates, San Diego County has a population of 3,286,069 in July 2021 and 3,297,252 in July 2020. If you subtract the 2021 population estimate from the 2020 population estimate, you get exactly 11,183.
Source: https://www.census.gov/data/datasets/time-series/demo/popest/2020s-total-cities-and-towns.html
Under Incorporated Places and Minor Civil Divisions Datasets: Subcounty Resident Population Estimates: April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2021 (SUB-EST2021) section.
Participant[quote=sdrealtor]Ok lets put this one to the test. Lets pick 4 zip codes and I’ll do research on what cash buyers look like in each. I get to pick one, DZ picks one, FLU picks one and I’ll throw out one wildcard to the piggs at large. If more than one other is submitted I’ll pick the one I think is least like the others. Heading up to LA for a couple days so no rush but submit your choices.
My Pick will be 92009.[/quote]
I pick 92122.
Participant[quote=deadzone]Google return to office April 4th. Apple returning April 11th.
When are the defense workers return to office?
Participant[quote=deadzone]Yes I agree with you about the COLA being worthless. That’s why I want to arm myself with as much salary data as possible. Mainly for taking care of my own people, I may need to get into it with the company execs if they are not willing to give more realistic raises this year.[/quote]
Here is one data point for you from Bloomberg Businessweek. I hope this help!
“Meanwhile, salaries rose by 4.6% to $158,000 in Seattle, home to Amazon.com Inc., and by 5% in Austin, Texas, which has attracted companies like Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, and will soon welcome Tesla Inc.’s headquarters. In San Diego, a major remote-work destination, salaries jumped 9.1% to $144,000, the largest increase in the country.
“We’re seeing movement,” said Hired Chief Executive Officer Josh Brenner, “to some of these smaller markets driven by the actual lifestyle there.” He said, “people are realizing San Diego has a nice way of living, good weather and it’s by the beach.”
ParticipantI am sorry; I don’t believe this is a true story :).
ParticipantSounds like flu is right on the tele-work and hiring challenge face by the local tech companies.
“To win a bid on a quality engineer, companies are offering things such as flexible hours, sign-on bonuses and permanent remote work, the last of which has become a requirement for much of the workforce. Dice, a website and staffing firm that focuses on tech talent, published a report in June that found only 17% of technologists wanted to work in an office full time, while 59% wanted remote and hybrid approaches.”
“If it was hard to hire talent 18 months ago — and now you cut the group you’re going for in half — it’s going to be really tough for you,” Wayne said.”
Participant[quote=barnaby33]Ubers fundamental problem is that it can’t change the fundamental problem, of cost of transport. It was cheap because it was subsidized. Sadly that has gone away for the most part.[/quote]
Is this true? If the robo-taxi concept can become a reality, then the cost can dramatically reduced. I think both Uber/Lyft are betting on this…
Participant[quote=Coronita]I was hoping to use my lessons in trying to buy a rental properties these days and apply it to trying to hire someone and was trying to explain with an analogy to my senior execs the concept of how a bidding war works…But they didn’t listen.
So we wanted to make an offer to a great junior engineer in the mid-west 2 years experience, remote worker. He mentioned he had a few additional interviews through the end of the week, so I’m like great, I respect that, we’ll give you an offer now to think about it, and then let us know if you are interested in pursuing it further next week. Current comp including stock grant around 95k so I figure he’ll be getting offers around $100k-118k, so I figure let’s go on the high end at $118k and see how it shakes out, figuring we’ll probably need to do a $10k signon bonus and we’ll save that once we get the other offers in.
But, no…Exec felt, well let’s go high right now, and maybe he’ll accept the offer without taking anything else. I’m like, come on…Even if we put a 48 hour time limit on the offer, what’s to prevent him from accepting our offer, continuing interviewing, and then take our offer, ask someone else to beat it, and then rescind our offer? Because that’s what I would do in this market. So no point in trying to put your highest offer in now, without waiting to see what else comes back…
See, it’s very similar to trying to buy a house right now. You want to put in a offer just high enough to make it to the short list of the selected people they will give a counter offer to. But you don’t want to go too high because otherwise your high price will end up being the floor for the counter offer that goes out, and you’re going to end up bidding against your own price you set.
Of course, they didn’t listen. Offer went out at $118k with a $10k sign on bonus… i bet it’s going to be cross shopped with the other companies he’s interviewing for, and after its’ done, we’re going to need increase the sign on bonus to $20k.
2 years of solid mobile experience….That’s how much it’s costing…
The other funny part is, there’s a bunch of people who aren’t really mobile software engineers trying to pass themselves off as one. They basically go attend some 6 month crash course at some for profit university, and claim they are a mobile engineer.
It doesn’t work with my company and my team, but I’m pretty confident they can find a job with some company that is desperate and isn’t as picky…and would pay roughly the same. Jokes on the engineers spent 4-6 years in a real college getting a BS/MS engineering degree…It’s the 2000’s all over again.[/quote]
Very interesting. Please let us know whether the junior engineer accept the offer from your company.
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Participant[quote=Coronita]What would you consider a worse scenario.
2. An entry level mobile engineer with 1 year of relevant experience, remote worker, based in “lower cost” Texas, demanding $118k/year because thats the offer he got elsewhere….and your boss and recruiter yelling at you because you balked and said no, considering 2 months ago, it only cost your budget $95k…
..it really sucks to be the person hiring these days just like it sucks to be the one trying to buy a house today…
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Can you explain on why it really sucks to be the person hiring these days?
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