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I am a Silicon Valley native, graduated from Stanford, worked at Google for a decade. Never felt like I belonged there socially or in terms of viewpoints. I le
by faanghacker 4y ago
I am a Silicon Valley native, graduated from Stanford, worked at Google for a decade. Never felt like I belonged there socially or in terms of viewpoints.
I left to complete the journey to financial independence without the burden of California state income tax. I got no benefit from being around a bunch of one dimensional software engineers with zero creativity in their lives outside of tech, no sense of independence or adventure.
- didibus 4y agoThat's generalizing, California is huge, and has big creative art scenes. The tech bubble side of things is not all there is to it.
- pyinstallwoes 4y agoWhere’d you go Bouts?
- david38 4y agoYou’re hanging out with the wrong engineers. But I hear you. You should move, at least do a six month lease somewhere and work remotely.