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SpaceStace
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21 Nov 2007, 9:06 pm

Silicon Valley. For those unfamiliar with that part of California, it's the south bay and southern peninsula of the San Francisco Bay area. It's because Stanford is there and everything computer from HP to Google was started by Stanford alumni, most of whom stayed in the area. Of course, the cost of living there is now insane, so you have to have started an internet giant to afford to live there.

I lived there for many years and I felt like I really fit in for a lot of the time if you can believe that.



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23 Nov 2007, 1:29 am

SpaceStace wrote:
Silicon Valley. For those unfamiliar with that part of California, it's the south bay and southern peninsula of the San Francisco Bay area. It's because Stanford is there and everything computer from HP to Google was started by Stanford alumni, most of whom stayed in the area. Of course, the cost of living there is now insane, so you have to have started an internet giant to afford to live there.

I lived there for many years and I felt like I really fit in for a lot of the time if you can believe that.


I was told a lot of Computer Science people are out of work there. Do you have to be a student or graduated at Stanford to work there? Is the competition that bad? I guess I'd be lucky to be able to work there coming from a UT school.



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23 Nov 2007, 8:23 am

moo_cow wrote:
I was told a lot of Computer Science people are out of work there. Do you have to be a student or graduated at Stanford to work there? Is the competition that bad? I guess I'd be lucky to be able to work there coming from a UT school.


Oh, no, you don't have to be a Stanford alum to work at Stanford or high tech or in SLAC or any job there. Stanford is the reason the industry is there but I know plenty of people who went to other schools, state schools, who found great jobs there and fit right in with the Stanford folks and other Aspies.



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24 Nov 2007, 8:15 pm

For me, Aspie heaven would be a video game store that sells all the games I want.



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27 Nov 2007, 12:08 am

Berserker wrote:
For me, Aspie heaven would be a video game store that sells all the games I want.


Yep, but I haven't bought that many.


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28 Nov 2007, 3:51 am

For me it's Edinburgh. Nice, Friendly and don't bother you if you don't want to be bothered. also not so fast moving like bloody london.