What's with the New England Bias? This is DC urban mom, not Boston (BUM)

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Anonymous wrote:New Englander by birth and education, Virginian by the grace of God here. This whole thread seems designed to make New Englanders look like petty provincial snobs. DC is a one horse town (gov) but Boston is only a little better: you've got higher ed, biotech, and whatever scraps of banking New York allows you to retain. Those are good industries for sure but people with real ambition unlike me or thee go to New York or the West Coast after graduation. So maybe work on yourselves.

Um, you obviously don’t know anyone who works in the computer industry…ever hear of Route 128?

I used to work at a software startup in the 128 corridor. As a tech scene it's okay, but nothing to rival silicon valley or even Austin or Seattle.

Name a better computer industry place on the east coast. I did not say it is Silicon Valley, but high tech is still a big industry in the Boston area, contrary to previous poster’s assertion. Duh.

DP. Not particularly for start ups but doesn't DMV beat everyone else in terms of IT Employment? we beat Silicon Valley like 15 years ago. The startup money and glamour is Silicon Valley but employment numbers are still DMV.

And to address the thread; the reason NE has a large number of schools is because that's where the population hub used to be. The original schools in Massachusetts were primarily for religious education that includes Harvard. While the South tried to create "Southern Gentlemen". Only reason Princeton was created was because it's half way between Harvard and W&M. It's really interesting on the origin stories of all the schools in NE and old South.

IT isn’t tech work…and also no source indicates IT jobs are concentrated anywhere higher than SF.

I remember it was a few years ago. But #2 isn't bad - I guess SF picked up. "The D.C. Metro area is the most concentrated tech talent market in the country after San Francisco, with tech positions representing 8.3 percent of all jobs in the region (second to the Bay Area’s 10.5%). "
https://techcrunch.com/sponsor/fairfax-county-economic-development-authority/americas-most-livable-tech-hub-why-northern-virginia-should-be-on-your-radar/

And it is shifting (more job openings) partially due to women entrepreneurs:
https://www.itbrew.com/stories/2023/03/27/east-coast-cities-overtaking-silicon-valley-for-tech-job-hotspots

I'm in tech in the bay area. I travel for work on occasion to the DC Metro area. I hate to break it to you but the DC Metro isn't ever part of the conversation when it comes to tech. What you call tech the rest of us call IT with the exception of some Datacenter and Telecom work. You can find tech in NYC, Austin, and Boston along with a bit in Denver and Dallas but not DC.

Defense tech is starting to grow quite a bit, though that is also largely based out of Hawthorne/El Segundo near LA right now.

Honestly, it's SF, NYC and Boston...every other location is no better than DC. Austin is increasingly becoming a joke as everyone who moved there thinking it would become the next great tech hub, is moving back to SF because Austin sucks as a place to live and AI is all happening in SF/SV.

Austin is not a joke, you dolt.

No…it is. Just because it went from 1 to 5 doesn’t mean shit when SF and SV are 100 and NY and Boston are each like 50.

But yeah…the tech scene is 5x bigger.

And yeah…tons of people are leaving which is why the housing market is tanking.

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I think it's because it has a high concentration of excellent schools and a good quality of life. Harvard, MIT, BC, BU, Babson, Wellesley, Tufts, Middlebury, Five Colleges, Bowdoin, Bates, Colby, Conn College, Dartmouth, etc. There's just a lot of great schools in the region. I don't think it's a bias, just a function of geography.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's because it has a high concentration of excellent schools and a good quality of life. Harvard, MIT, BC, BU, Babson, Wellesley, Tufts, Middlebury, Five Colleges, Bowdoin, Bates, Colby, Conn College, Dartmouth, etc. There's just a lot of great schools in the region. I don't think it's a bias, just a function of geography.

Excellent schools and then you include babson, tufts, Hampshire, Colby, and conn college? Really?

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's because it has a high concentration of excellent schools and a good quality of life. Harvard, MIT, BC, BU, Babson, Wellesley, Tufts, Middlebury, Five Colleges, Bowdoin, Bates, Colby, Conn College, Dartmouth, etc. There's just a lot of great schools in the region. I don't think it's a bias, just a function of geography.

Excellent schools and then you include babson, tufts, Hampshire, Colby, and conn college? Really?

You are uneducated and uncouth if you are trashing on those schools.

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Parents who are Northern transplants in places like Charlotte, Atlanta, etc. and graduates of New England colleges are having kids who (gasp) choose to attend schools in the South (including the SEC schools derided in their forum).

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Duh: New England does not have any MAGAs.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's because it has a high concentration of excellent schools and a good quality of life. Harvard, MIT, BC, BU, Babson, Wellesley, Tufts, Middlebury, Five Colleges, Bowdoin, Bates, Colby, Conn College, Dartmouth, etc. There's just a lot of great schools in the region. I don't think it's a bias, just a function of geography.

Excellent schools and then you include babson, tufts, Hampshire, Colby, and conn college? Really?

How are those not great schools? Do you know anything about them?

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Anonymous wrote:Duh: New England does not have any MAGAs.

You should meet my wife's aunt.

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I’m from ny. Many of the kids at my child’s high school all want to go to school in Boston. Other states seem to be less attractive to my child.

My second child doesn’t love Boston as much..

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's because it has a high concentration of excellent schools and a good quality of life. Harvard, MIT, BC, BU, Babson, Wellesley, Tufts, Middlebury, Five Colleges, Bowdoin, Bates, Colby, Conn College, Dartmouth, etc. There's just a lot of great schools in the region. I don't think it's a bias, just a function of geography.

Basically, wealthy not very diverse states that traditionally educated their elite.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's because it has a high concentration of excellent schools and a good quality of life. Harvard, MIT, BC, BU, Babson, Wellesley, Tufts, Middlebury, Five Colleges, Bowdoin, Bates, Colby, Conn College, Dartmouth, etc. There's just a lot of great schools in the region. I don't think it's a bias, just a function of geography.

Basically, wealthy not very diverse states that traditionally educated their elite.

Not sure where you are going with this one.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's because it has a high concentration of excellent schools and a good quality of life. Harvard, MIT, BC, BU, Babson, Wellesley, Tufts, Middlebury, Five Colleges, Bowdoin, Bates, Colby, Conn College, Dartmouth, etc. There's just a lot of great schools in the region. I don't think it's a bias, just a function of geography.

Basically, wealthy not very diverse states that traditionally educated their elite.

Not sure where you are going with this one.

What's to wonder? It's why the New England area has so many colleges and universities. They weren't built to educate the poor and disadvantaged--more for wealthy prep school alums, and the area has always had very limited diversity.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's because it has a high concentration of excellent schools and a good quality of life. Harvard, MIT, BC, BU, Babson, Wellesley, Tufts, Middlebury, Five Colleges, Bowdoin, Bates, Colby, Conn College, Dartmouth, etc. There's just a lot of great schools in the region. I don't think it's a bias, just a function of geography.

Basically, wealthy not very diverse states that traditionally educated their elite.

Not sure where you are going with this one.

What's to wonder? It's why the New England area has so many colleges and universities. They weren't built to educate the poor and disadvantaged--more for wealthy prep school alums, and the area has always had very limited diversity.

New England has WASPs of various descriptions, more variety of white ethnics than most of the country, American Indians, Cape Verdeans, and many other ethnicities. Just because there are fewer blacks doesn't make it undiverse.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's because it has a high concentration of excellent schools and a good quality of life. Harvard, MIT, BC, BU, Babson, Wellesley, Tufts, Middlebury, Five Colleges, Bowdoin, Bates, Colby, Conn College, Dartmouth, etc. There's just a lot of great schools in the region. I don't think it's a bias, just a function of geography.

Basically, wealthy not very diverse states that traditionally educated their elite.

Not sure where you are going with this one.

What's to wonder? It's why the New England area has so many colleges and universities. They weren't built to educate the poor and disadvantaged--more for wealthy prep school alums, and the area has always had very limited diversity.

New England has WASPs of various descriptions, more variety of white ethnics than most of the country, American Indians, Cape Verdeans, and many other ethnicities. Just because there are fewer blacks doesn't make it undiverse.

That's a stretch. Diverse whites?!

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's because it has a high concentration of excellent schools and a good quality of life. Harvard, MIT, BC, BU, Babson, Wellesley, Tufts, Middlebury, Five Colleges, Bowdoin, Bates, Colby, Conn College, Dartmouth, etc. There's just a lot of great schools in the region. I don't think it's a bias, just a function of geography.

Basically, wealthy not very diverse states that traditionally educated their elite.

Not sure where you are going with this one.

What's to wonder? It's why the New England area has so many colleges and universities. They weren't built to educate the poor and disadvantaged--more for wealthy prep school alums, and the area has always had very limited diversity.

New England has WASPs of various descriptions, more variety of white ethnics than most of the country, American Indians, Cape Verdeans, and many other ethnicities. Just because there are fewer blacks doesn't make it undiverse.

That's a stretch. Diverse whites?!

Diversity means 'variety,' not 'more black people.'